Camembert Electrique Vinyl
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Gloriously unhinged and still wonderfully strange, Camembert Electrique is the 1971 psychedelic landmark from Daevid Allen's merry band of space pixies, here on 180-gram vinyl.
Recorded at the Château d'Hérouville near Paris and first released on the French label BYG Actuel, it was Gong's second album and the first to properly define their freewheeling, mythology-soaked style. Allen, a founding member of Soft Machine, led a line-up featuring Gilli Smyth's otherworldly space whisper, Didier Malherbe's saxophone and Christian Tritsch on bass. In 1974 the young Virgin label reissued it in the UK at the price of a single.
Brief, absurd interludes like "Radio Gnome" and "Wet Cheese Delirium" frame longer flights such as "You Can't Kill Me", a driving blast that feels ahead of punk, and "Fohat Digs Holes in Space", which drifts through cosmic swirls and chanted mysticism. The record seeds the pothead pixies and radio gnomes who would soon populate Gong's celebrated trilogy.
It is chaotic and funny, yet genuinely adventurous, with jazz-inflected sax and glissando guitar colliding in ways that still sound fresh more than fifty years later.
A key record for fans of space rock and the wilder edges of the progressive era, it remains one of the great oddities of 1970s European rock.
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