The first part of the Radio Gnome Trilogy. Excellent spacey psychodelia from the top line up of this long-lasting band. There's one or two places it gets somewhat disjointed but overall, very entertaining and musically very dynamic and interesting.

Originally released in 1973,looks to be Gong's fifth lp that was produced by Giorgio Gomelsky(Yardbirds,Brian Auger).Call me ignorant if you wish,but for some reason(s)I've just never been able to get THAT much into this classic Gong catalog title.I do like the other two lp's they put out in the same two year period,'Angel Egg' and 'You' very much so.This CD reissue's title 12-minute cut,"Flying Teapot" and "Zero The Hero And The Witch's Spell" are probably the best tracks here.So-so '70's cosmic rock.Nice reissue job on this Japanese label.Memorable cover.

On this album, Gegard Hourbette, Patricia Dallio and about 50 sessional musicans (without Thierry). They replay Haxan music (exactly "Glissements progressifs du plaisir" track), which was written by Hourbette.
uBIQUe consists in two parts, and both are written by Hourbette.
If you love Haxan album, this shall be good album for you.
This is live recording, record quality is on high level.

Extremely dark and obscure music.

It's prog, it's psych, it's a bit of jazz, and Daevid's vocals are just fine!! The last two tracks are weirdly sublime and even scary, with Gilli's space whispers and the in-your-face lyrics she gets to utter. The sticker shock is an indicator that people have scarfed this album up since it came out -- thus driving up the price. Well? It's a shame, but if you don't get this I doubt they'll reissue again, or print another batch.

Thus begins that experience known as Gong. Perhaps Radio Gnome Invisible is the mohter of all concept albums. Essentially these pothead pixies come to earth in a flying teapot to spread love. There are also these Octive Doctors who spread good feeling so such. Much has been said about this band, and whether it is justified is a matter of your personal judgment. This album did not come across very strongly to me at first, and it still doesn't. Daevid Allen (one-time member of the Soft Machine before their first album was ever released) just doesn't have that extensive of a vocal range. His style is very comparable to Richard Sinclair of Caravan. Gilli Smyth's voice, however, isn't. Her willow-wisp style delivery is one of the winning points of Flying Teapot-if anything her presence (which, if you like, you should check her out on The Owl and the Tree album-even more smokey and surreal!) on this album inspired the others to rise above the helium mentality that seems to pervade throughout. This is not to say that the album doesn't have its moments. "Witch's Song" is great. "The Octave Doctors" is downright futuristic and haunting, albeit brief. And of the course the title song, should go down in legend. It's relentless and driving; if only Gong had done more of this kind of fushion-progressive rock and less of the, well . . . "Pothead Pixies". Ah, but then where would be that Canterburian whimsy? By the time of the You album, however, Gong seemed to have gotten their instramental game down. Vocals for the most part have been cast to the wind and emphasis is more on tight playing. If there is an international equivalent to Gong and the maniacal (but often brilliant) shifts in rhythm and tempo, it would be in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.