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Shapeshifter (Gong album)

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Released
  
1992

Length
  
66:00

Release date
  
1992

Recorded
  
Sep 1991 - Jul 1992

Artist
  
Gong

Label
  
Celluloid Records

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Producer
  
Dino Watkyn, Nigel Gilroy

Shapeshifter (1992)
  
Zero to Infinity (2000)

Genres
  
Progressive rock, World music

Similar
  
Gong albums, Progressive rock albums

Gong shapeshifter 1992 full album


Shapeshifter is the seventh studio album by the progressive rock band Gong, released in 1992.

Contents

With main character Zero the hero, the album continues the Gong mythology, the central part of which was formed with the Radio Gnome Trilogy of albums, comprising Flying Teapot in 1973, followed by Angel's Egg, 1973, and You in 1974.

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Releases

Over the years since 1992, there have been different releases of the album with different numbers of tracks. On "the original as it was planned", the Gong website lists #12: "Là Bas Là Bas" and #13: "I Gotta Donkey" - these are not found on the 1997 Lightyear release. That release has a closing bonus track titled "Goddess Invocation Om Riff", recorded live at Ynys Witren at summer solstice 1992.

Personnel

  • Daevid Allen: Acoustic, glissando and lewd guitarplay, vocals, midwifery
  • Graham Clark: Violins, voices
  • Shyamal Maitra: Tablas, ghatam, djembé, darbuka, techno percs, programming. Drums on 13
  • Keith Bailey: Bass guitar, vocals: 2, 9
  • Didier Malherbe: Bass, tenor, alto and soprano saxophones. WX7, keyboards, dogs, piccolo, flutes
  • Pip Pyle: Drums, ten green bottles and scream

    • Guest personnel

  • Charlelie Couture: Vocals: 12
  • Tom the Poet: Instant radio poetry during US tour with Daevid: 13
  • Loy Ehrlich: Keyboards: 8, Kora: 5
  • Mark Robson: Keyboards and sportin' vocals: 22

    • Additional personnel on bonus track

    In the Allmusic review of the 1997 release and in its Discogs entry, additional personnel is listed:

  • Mike Howlett: Bass
  • Peter Kimberley: Vocals
  • Steffi Sharpstrings: Guitar
  • Gilli Smyth: Space Whisper, Vocals, Whistle (Human)
  • Twink: Synthesizer

    • Track listing

    1. "Gnomerique" (Allen) − 0:07
    2. "Shapeshifter" (Allen, Malherbe) − 4:53
    3. "Hymnalayas" (Allen, Bailey) − 7:38
    4. "Dog-o-matic" (Maitra) − 3:00
    5. "Spirit With Me" (Allen, Ehrlich) − 2:27
    6. "Mr Albert Parkin" (Clark) − 0:17
    7. "Raindrop Tablas" (Maitra) − 0:21
    8. "Give My Mother a Soul Call" (Yogananda) − 4:30
    9. "Heaven's Gate" (Allen, Bailey) − 4:49
    10. "Snake Tablas" (Maitra) − 0:34
    11. "Loli" (Allen, Clark) − 5:09
    12. "Là Bas Là Bas" (Couture, Allen) − 4:06
    13. "I Gotta Donkey" (Allen) − 2:12
    14. "Can: You Can" (Malherbe) − 9:09
    15. "Confiture de Rhubarbier" (Pyle) − 1:18
    16. "Parkin Triumphant" (Clark) − 0:06
    17. "Longhaired Tablas" (Maitra) − 0:14
    18. "Éléphant la Tête" (Malherbe, Maitra) - 4:41
    19. "Mother's Gone" (Allen) − 1:12
    20. "Éléphant la Cuisse" (Malherbe, Clark) − 3:26
    21. "White Doves" (Viraj, Sunsinger) − 5:24
    22. "Gnomoutro" (Allen) − 0:27

    Bonus track

    "Goddess Invocation Om Riff" (Allen, Blake, Hillage, Howlett, Smyth) − 12:58

    Songs

    1Gnomerique0:07
    2Shapeshifter4:53
    3Hymnalayas7:38

    References

    Shapeshifter (Gong album) Wikipedia
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