Angel's Egg
by Gong
- Type: Album
- Released: 7 December 1973
- Label: Virgin
- Country: France
- Length: 2:00:09
- Community rating: 4.15/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Gilli Smyth, Bloomdido Bad de Grass, Mireille De Strasbourg, Steve Hillage, Dingo Virgin, Mireille Bauer, Tim Blake, Mike Howlett, Daevid Allen, Pierre Moerlen, Mr T. Being, Didier Malherbe, Pierre De Strasbourg, Hi. T. Moonweed
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Serving as the wildly eccentric middle chapter of their 'Radio Gnome Invisible' trilogy, Gong delivered a profoundly quirky, highly surreal space-rock masterwork. 'Angel's Egg' is a wonderfully playful, fiercely psychedelic Canterbury Scene classic, balancing heavily atmospheric synthesizer textures and jazz-rock precision with intensely humorous, sexually charged mythological fantasy.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, space, eccentric, mythology, witty
Tracklist
- Other Side Of The Sky (7:37)
- Sold To The Highest Buddha (4:27)
- Castle In The Clouds (1:13)
- Prostitute Poem (4:52)
- Givin' My Luv To You (0:47)
- Selene (3:41)
- Flute Salad (2:09)
- Oily Way (3:37)
- Outer Temple (1:08)
- Inner Temple (2:33)
- Percolations (0:46)
- Love Is How Y Make It (3:27)
- I Never Glid Before (5:36)
- Eat That Phone Book Coda (3:14)
- Other Side Of The Sky (4:36)
- Ooby-Scooby Doomsday Or The D-Day DJ's Got The D.D.T. Blues (5:07)
- Love Is How Y Make It (3:29)
- Eat That Phone Book Coda (3:09)
- Other Side Of The Sky - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (12:20)
- Dynamite / I Am Your Animal - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (5:45)
- 6/8 Tune - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (3:49)
- I Never Glid Before - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (5:48)
- You Can't Kill Me - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (8:51)
- Ooby-Scooby Doomsday Or The D-Day DJ's Got The D.D.T. Blues - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (11:02)
- Flute Salad - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (1:40)
- Oily Way - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (3:34)
- Outer Temple - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (1:22)
- Inner Temple - Live At Club Arc En Ciel, Roanne, France / 1973 (4:18)
Credits
- Gong - primary artist, producer
- Mr T. Being - bass
- Pierre De Strasbourg - drums, marimba, vibraphone
- Simon Heyworth - engineer
- Bloomdido Bad De Grass - flute, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, backing vocals
- Mireille De Strasbourg - glockenspiel
- Steve Hillage - guitar, written-by
- Dingo Virgin - guitar, vocals
- Giorgio Gomelsky - producer [produced under the direction of]
- Hi. T. Moonweed - synthesizer, vocals
- Shakti Yoni - vocals [spacewhisper]
- Daevid Allen - written-by, vocal
- Tim Blake - written-by, vocal
- Mike Howlett - written-by
- Gilli Smyth - written-by, other vocals vocal
- Didier Malherbe - written-by, flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, background vocals vocal
- Pierre Moerlen - written-by, marimba, vibraphone
- Mireille Bauer - glockenspiel