Flying Teapot (album)
Flying Teapot | ||||
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Studio album by Gong | ||||
Released | 25 May 1973 | |||
Recorded | January 1973 The Manor Studios, Oxford, UK |
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Genre | Psychedelic rock, space rock,[1] progressive rock[1] | |||
Length | 37:02 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Producer | Giorgio Gomelsky | |||
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Flying Teapot is the third studio album by the psychedelic rock band Gong, originally released by Virgin Records in May 1973. A later edition (with different cover art) was issued by BYG Actuel in France and Japan in 1976. Subtitled "Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1", it is the first of the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy of albums, and was followed by Angel's Egg (1973) and You (1974). The trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology. The Flying Teapot idea was influenced by Russell's teapot.[2]
Recorded at Virgin's Manor Studios, in Oxfordshire, England, it was produced by Giorgio Gomelsky and engineered by "Simon Sandwitch 2 aided by Tom Zen" (Simon Heyworth and Tom Newman).
In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #35 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".[3]
Track listing
- "Radio Gnome Invisible" (Allen) – 5:32
- "Flying Teapot" (Allen, Moze) – 11:53
- "The Pot Head Pixies" (Allen) – 3:00
- "The Octave Doctors And The Crystal Machine" (Blake) – 1:51
- "Zero The Hero And The Witch's Spell" (Allen, Blake, Tritsch) – 9:36
- "Witch's Song/I Am Your Pussy" (Smyth / Allen) – 5:08
Personnel
The original personnel listing is as follows:
- Pon voicebox – Dingo Virgin & Hi T Moonweed the favourite
- Orgone box & space whisper – the Good Witch Yoni
- VCS3box Cynthia size A & crystal machine – Hi T Moonweed the favourite
- Split sax ie tenna & soprasox & so flooth – The Good Count Bloomdido Bad De Grasse
- Gitbox – Stevie Hillside (spermguitar & slow whale), The Submarine Captain (sideral slideguitar & Dogfoot), Dingo Virgin & others (aluminium croonguitar & stumblestrum)
- VCS3 fertilised elect piano & left bank uptightright pno & Shakesperian meat bass – Francis Bacon
- Drumbox kicks and knocks – Lawrence the alien
- Congox – Rachid Whoarewe the Treeclimber
- Road crew & trux – Venux De Luxe (switch doctor), Wiz De Kid (lights) & Duke
These pseudonyms, in turn represented:
- Daevid Allen – vocals, guitar
- Gilli Smyth – space whisper
- Tim Blake – synthesizer, vocals
- Didier Malherbe – saxes, flute
- Steve Hillage – guitar
- Christian Tritsch – guitar
- Francis Moze – bass guitar, piano
- Laurie Allan – drums
- Rachid Houari – congas
- Francis Linon - live sound engineer