Unending Ascending Gong SKU: KSCOPE1292 Barcode: 802644829272 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Progressive Label: Kscope Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info GONG RETURN WITH INTERSTELLAR NEW ALBUM ‘UNENDING ASCENDING’ Following the passing of visionary & founding member, Daevid Allen, whose importance was celebrated on 2016’s ‘Rejoice! I’m Dead!’ album & the forging of their own creative vision on 2019’s ‘The Universe Also Collapses’, Gong continue their upward trajectory in 2023 with ‘Unending Ascending’. The album is a return to relatively shorter songs, an eclectic eight-song cycle that forms a pan-galactic suite, veering between the ecstatic, apocalyptic, meditative & catchy, often within the same song. Opener ‘Tiny Galaxies’ crackles with the electricity of supercharged sixties psych-pop, while ‘My Guitar Is A Spaceship’ is as close to an anthem as anything Gong have previously recorded. This up tempo, single-riff stomper is already a live favourite, garnering a positive reaction from a crowd of 90,000 Blur fans at Wembley Stadium in July 2023 when Gong frontman Kavus Torabi dropped it into his DJ set before Paul Weller took to the stage. ‘Ship Of Ishtar’ is a rapt cosmic hymn where Gong makes time itself stand still. Jet streams of kaleidoscopic melodies envelop ‘O, Arcturus’, to be followed by the lively polyrhythmic angularity of ‘All Clocks Reset’. ‘Choose Your Goddess’, a surprisingly muscular slice of ritualistic trance rock, ratchets up the intensity yet further. On ‘Lunar Invocation’ the band summons the Moon deities of yore with ululating feedback & squalling cymbals before the post-credits of ‘Asleep Do We Lay’ lull lugubriously, gently beginning the cycle all over again. ‘Unending Ascending’ is a curious peep through the telescope that takes the listener on an ecstatic voyage to witness aural supernovas explode, galaxies die & clocks reset. From the star-spangled oceans of the cosmos to the salty sea bottom.” – Kavus. The universe of Gong began in 1969 when Daevid Allen was inspired by a profound psychedelic vision. A founder member of Soft Machine, Allen incorporated his spiritual & metaphysical leanings into an evolving collective. More a mythology than a band in the conventional sense, Gong established itself as one of the most unique, innovative & experimental rock groups of the seventies, through an exploratory mix of rock, jazz & psychedelia with elements of mysticism & surrealism, unafraid to deliver its messages directly, obliquely or whimsically. The current incarnation, who were put together by Daevid for his swansong album with Gong, ‘I See You’, honour his intention that Gong do not die with him, urging the band to “carry it on into new unknown heights & depths far beyond anything I could ever imagine myself” Artist Gong Genre Progressive Label Kscope Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Tiny Galaxies ( 03:33 ) My Guitar Is A Spaceship ( 04:09 ) Ship Of Ishtar ( 08:33 ) O, Arcturus ( 03:55 ) All Clocks Reset ( 04:09 ) Choose Your Goddess ( 06:49 ) Lunar Invocation ( 04:34 ) Asleep Do We Lay ( 04:16 ) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Gong View Product Quick View Gong Zero To Infinity Progressive | Kscope | 2LP Released 25th August 2023 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gong Zero To Infinity £33.00 Genre: Progressive Label: Kscope SKU: KSCOPE1138 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 25th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gong Pulsing Signals Progressive | Kscope | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 18th March 2022 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gong Pulsing Signals £32.00 Genre: Progressive Label: Kscope SKU: KSCOPE1143 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 18th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gong Live! 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