Bright Spirit Vinyl
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Gong's Bright Spirit completes a cosmic trilogy for the long-running psychedelic collective, seven expansive tracks that keep the band's sense of wonder burning.
Founder Daevid Allen asked the group to carry on after his death in 2015, and they have done exactly that with Kavus Torabi out front on vocals and guitar alongside Fabio Golfetti, Dave Sturt, Ian East and Cheb Nettles. Released in 2026, this seventeenth studio album is framed by the band as the final part of a run that began with The Universe Also Collapses and continued with Unending Ascending. Frank Byng recorded and mixed it at Snorkel Studios in London, co-producing with the band.
Dream of Mine opens the record with more than ten minutes of unfolding space rock, and Fragrance of Paradise stretches past seven, giving the five-piece room to drift and build. East's flute and saxophone thread jazzy colour through the guitars, a reminder of the band's Canterbury roots. Stars in Heaven offers a shorter, more song-shaped moment, and Eternal Hand brings the album home.
Torabi wrote the lyrics, and the music is credited to the whole band, which suits a group that has always worked as a collective.
Gong have outlasted fashions for more than half a century, and Bright Spirit shows them honouring that legacy by pushing forward.
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