Camembert electrique

by Gong

Camembert electrique cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1971
  • Label: BYG Actuel
  • Country: France
  • Length: 39:20
  • Community rating: 4.1/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Sandy Colley, Didier Malherbe, Pierre Moerlen, Allan Holdsworth, Mireille De Strasbourg, Laurie Allan, Gilli Smyth, Benoit Moerlen, Hi. T. Moonweed, Patrice Lemoine, Daevid Allen, Rachid Houari, Mr T. Being, Miquette Giraudy, Mireille Bauer, Pierre De Strasbourg, Bloomdido Bad de Grass, Steve Hillage, Tim Blake, Francis Moze, Dingo Virgin, Mike Howlett, Jorge Pinchevsky, Mino Cinelu, Christian Tritsch

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Setting the wildly eccentric stage for their legendary 'Radio Gnome' trilogy, Daevid Allen's Gong delivered a profoundly quirky, highly surreal space-rock masterwork. 'Camembert electrique' is wonderfully playful and fiercely psychedelic, blending incredibly complex avant-prog structures and tape manipulation with distinctly British humor and highly energetic jazz-rock musicianship.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, complex, progressive, spacey, bizarre, experimental, dreamy, witty, maximalist, diverse

Tracklist

  1. Radio Gnome (0:27)
  2. You Can't Kill Me (6:16)
  3. I've Bin Stone Before : Mister Long Shanks : O Mother (4:51)
  4. I Am Your Fantasy (3:39)
  5. Dynamite : I Am Your Animal (4:29)
  6. Wet Cheese Delirium (0:28)
  7. Squeezing Sponges over Policemen's Heads (0:12)
  8. Fohat Digs Holes in Space (6:20)
  9. Tried so Hard (4:36)
  10. Tropical Fish : Selene (7:32)
  11. Gnome the Second (0:25)

Credits

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