GONG — Acid Motherhood (review)

GONG — Acid Motherhood album cover Album · 2004 · Jazz Related Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
snobb
More than 30 (!) years have passed since Gong's heyday during their Radio Gnome Trilogy. In the meantime, endless reincarnations and side-projects have given a lot of material to collectors and Gong Family researchers. Now Gong returns with another drastically different sound on their Acid Motherhood album recorded in Australia in 2003.

First of all you will notice the cover art - very possibly you don't like it, but it can't pass unnoticed. Then looking at the line-up you will see what this music is about: the band recorded this album in combination with the Japanese industrial improv gods, Acid Mothers Temple's driving force, guitarist Kawabata Makoto and keyboardist/vocalist Cotton Casino. Also included are early Gong leader Daevid Allen plus his US side-project University of Errors's guitarist Josh Pollock, Allen's son Orlando on drums and partial participation of Gilli Smyth, percussionist Gregg Sheehan and bassist Dharmawan Bradbridge.

The result is what it should be - "Acid Mothers Gong". Unusually heavy, but in the Japanese brutal avant-garde rock way, not Euro-American metal, but also full of electronic effects and still quirky psychedelics in the early Gong tradition. Obviously a hate-love release for both fans of Daevid Allen's Gong and Acid Mothers Temple, this release is great at least because it demonstrates in full the artistic potential of Daevid Allen who isn't afraid of such drastic experimentation even after a 40 year musical career.
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