I'm shocked these guys weren't more popular (maybe they were I'm just too young to know). Catchy tunes performed with trippy, ethereal instrumentation and vocals. Reminds me a bit of early 70's Bowie at times, but more jazzy/jammy and sometimes dark. For me this was the band's studio pinnacle. Their live recordings from this period of the band are also outstanding.

The trilogy moves well one into the other, if you like one you will like them all

First let me say, this is one of my favorite albums in the world. Second, this is one of the best remastering jobs I've ever heard. The high end is clear and sharp, the low end is tight and punchy, and there is no annoying 'bump' in the high mids that mars so many progressive rock remasters. Hand it to the dutch for using their ears instead of their meters and dials. If you remember the old Virgin vinyl lp, then you know how good this album could sound. If you owned the Charly CD, you know how bad it could sound. The follow-up release, You, has also been remastered and it, too, sounds better than the lp. Now when will they get to The Flying Teapot. My old Charly CD never sounded so bad.

Hats off also for the four bonus songs. Two of them are single edits. The Other Side Of The Sky, I believe, was the French b-side to I Never Glid Befoa, but I could be wrong. Ooby Scooby Doomsday used to be on the vinyl Gong Live etc. I've heard it said this song is a waste of time. I think it's one of the great lost Gong songs and it deserves to be in any comprehensive library of the band's recordings. Another is Blues For Findlay from the soundtrack to Continental Circus, which was made around the time of Camembert Electrique. I wish we could get that on CD again.

A TON of fun - superbly executed and clearly remastered sounds!!

This is like early Pink Floyd - if Sid had remained in the group!
This is like King Crimson WITHOUT the technical chip on Fripp's shoulder - (...must...play....faster....)
This is like Zappa on mescalin!

This is post-Floyd psychedelia of a 'very high' calibre ;-)

This excellent 1973 release by Gong was the second installment in the Radio Gnome Trilogy. The lineup on this album is absolutely classic Gong and includes Tim Blake (VCS3 and mini-moog synthesizers); Pierre Moerlen (drums); Mike Howlett (bass); Daevid Allen (guitar, vocals); Didier Maherbe (woodwinds); Steve Hillage (guitar); and Gilli Smyth (space whisper, vocals). A great deal of the music on Angel's Egg is very spacey, which is driven largely by Tim Blake's atmospheric synthesizer work, along with Gilli Smyth's cosmic and heavily-echoed "space whisper". On the other side of the coin however, is some seriously virtuosic drumming by Pierre Moerlen and alternately spacey and heavy guitar work by Steve Hillage. Bassist Mike Howlett is no slouch either and his thunderous playing really drives everything along. As a general rule, this band was always comprised of superb musicians and their ability to swing from jazz rock, to space rock, to spacey free-form and back again always impressed me. In addition to virtuosity, this music exhibits the quintessentially whimsical Canterburian sense of humor, which is expressed through the surreal and "dadaist" lyrics of Daevid Allen. EMI did a great job of remastering this album, and the 14 page booklet features liner notes that "explain" the premise underlying the Radio Gnome Trilogy (up through Part II at least), and discusses topics including the Planet Gong; Master of the Spheres; Octave Doctors; Pot Head Pixies and the like. In addition to the original album, there are five bonus tracks including a single version of Other side of the Sky, the outtake Ooby-Scooby Doomsday or the D-Day DJ's got the DDT Blues, a vocal mix of Love is How Y Make It, and an early version of Eat that Phone Book Coda. Overall the bonus tracks are OK, and with the exception of the excellent Ooby-Scooby, do not add too much to the original album. Fortunately, EMI did not use copy control technology on this album, so playback problems should not be an issue. This album is very highly recommended along with Magick Brother (1970); Camembert Electrique (1971); Flying Teapot (RGI Pt. 1) (1973); and You (RGI Pt. 3)(1974).