Gong - Camembert Electronique - 1971 1st UK press - Two Virgins label - NM Vinyl

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GONG

- CAMEMBERT ELECTRIQUE -

1971 UK LP CAROLINE RECORDS C 1520

Gong's seminal "Camembert Electrique" appeared in the weird year of 1971, the same year we were inundated by the concentrated bizarreness of the likes of Can, Magma, and Faust but that was Krautrock, this is Canterbury and it's the oddest Canterbury you will encounter. Actually you can't really pigeon hole the band as they are unpigeonholeable; but its voraciously psychedelic. Gong were more than travelling Felini-esque circus, more than avant-garde musicians, more than cosmic clowns, or space rocking infidels, they were on another planet altogether.

The songs range from mildly updated psychedelia such as You Can't Kill Me, a hippy protest song spiced up with some killer sax from Didier Malherbe, to incredibly ahead-of-its-time material like You Tried So Hard - which, with its driving guitar line and earnest vocals, sounds in its first half like the sort of material the shoegazer/indie scene in Britain would cook up decades later, before the song breaks out into all kinds of experimental directions. The band's quirky sense of humour is in full force, and exists in perfect balance with its progressive musical aims - a fact that's true of precious few Gong albums from the early 1970s - so it's one of the absolute best places to start exploring the band's work.

NICE COPY OF THIS CLASSIC ALBUM. A MUST FOR FANS OF PROG, THIS RECORD IS AS WEIRD AS IT GETS!

1971 CAROLINE RECORDS (UK) C 1520

SLEEVE - GOOD CONDITION

VINYL - NEAR MINT ( SHOP FRESH SHINE - NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES VISIBLE )

THE VINYL HAS A PLEASING LUSTRE AND PLAYS SUPERBLY WITH LITTLE SURFACE NOISE.

THE  LABELS ARE CLEAN AND HAVE NO WRITING OR ANNOTATIONS.

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