???????BYG ORIG DAEVID ALLEN BANANA MOON ACID PROG PSYCH GONG WYATT ACTUEL 71

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	$		53

FIRST ORIGINAL FRENCH ONLY 1971 BYG Records ?– 529.345 , FULLY LAMINATED ( INSIDE AND OUTSIDE ) GATEFOLD SLEEVE , BLACK SACEM LABELS . SIDE 1 BANANA MOON WITH "BYG 529345 A" MATRIX AND SIDE 2 STONED INNOCENT FRANKENSTEIN WITH "BYG 529 345 B" MATRIX . 100 % FRENCH ORIGINAL FIRST PRESS !!


I RECORDED BOTH SIDES , EACH ON A SAMPLER . DONT GET FOOLED BY THE FIRST SECONDS OF THE FIRST TRACK , THE SOUND QUALITY QUICKLY GETS BETTER , IF THERE ARE SOME CLICKS AND POPS DURING THE PLAYING , IT DOES NOT OVERPLAY THE MUSIC . I WILL GRADE THIS LP VG+ . OF COURSE NO SKIP OR JUMPS . LISTEN TO BOTH SAMPLES , ENJOY !


NICE VG++ SLEEVE , SOME CORNER WEAR AND A LIGHT CUT ON THE TOP SEAM . SEE PICTURES .
"Original 1970 first pressing of a 1st solo album by Daevid Allen, after he left Soft Machine, but before he created GonG ... you'll find it a psychedelic progressive drenched adventure...

NO "Pot-headed Pixies" here, but Daevid Allen's first solo album is just as, if not stranger than his work with Gong and Soft Machine...

Daevid Allen will be remembered for one of the most influential bands of the psychedelic prog- rock genre, Gong. However, long before such a band existed the man was running around the world, meeting up with musical poets, disgruntling government authorities due to his visa running out and generally cooking up some of the most otherworldly stories known to man (and it's not just the pot-head pixies). After having had the time of his life producing the strangest music of the late 60s with the Soft Machine, Allen decided to go on a more personal venture into the world of music, thus creating his first solo album, Bananamoon.

Bananamoon is a completely different kettle of fish to Allen's early '70s works with Gong, though still very much drug-addled and otherworldly all the same. For his first solo album, every song here is different in its own way, amidst psychedelic music.

Daevid Allen's input into the album, besides singing (and playing with a unique guitar style), he has major role in the songwriting process. There are ballsy hard rockers influenced by blues (“White Neck Blooze”), rock 'n' roll (“Time of your Life”), and even nods to the Jimi Hendrix Experience of the late 60s (“I am a bowl”), though all songs are notably distinctive simply because of Allen's voice. You can't listen to the very upbeat and bouncy “Time of your Life” without getting Allen's vocals stuck in your head. There's always something to like about Allen's solo material. If it's not his vocals, it could be his questionable lyrical input (“O hand me bowler and me didgery doo/One banana sandwich and a bucket of tea/abra cabra dabra I'm a coolibar tree” on “Fred the Fish”), his hard guitar strumming on “Time of your Life” and “I am a Bowl” or even the way in which he manages to fuse harmonic group vocals with psyched-out instrumental jams to create almost stunning results ("And his Adventures in the Land of Flip").
That said, what really stands out on Allen's solo material is the more experimental music, resembling closely to the likes of Gong and Soft Machine (of course). The album's longest song by far, “And his Adventures in the Land of Flip” (“His” refers to the character in the preceding song title, “Stoned out Frankenstein”), is divided into two parts. One part actually makes sense with a comprehensible musical structure, showing Allen's more restrained and harmonic musical input, whereas the other simply relies on bizarre instrumental jams where a multitude of different instruments all come together to crash about in hope of making one uniquely crafted sound. If you're asking yourself whether this musical style makes sense or not, just remember that it's not supposed to make sense, it's just there. Because Daevid Allen is simply a musician who puts his ideas down onto paper, and then brings them to life through music in their raw form. He doesn't change the original idea, and that's perhaps why his solo work, especially on Bananamoon, is so strange just like his later projects with early '70s Gong has been known to be.

Daevid Allen is the type of musician that simply carries on spiraling downwards (or upwards, depending on the drugs you're taking when listening to Gong albums) into a marvelous world of his own, and if you're ready to take the trip into his world, then Bananamoon is definitely for you.
"THANKS TO ESTERDAMIN .

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RECORD GRADING IS M/NM/VG++/VG+/VG/G/P.
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RECORD GRADING IS M= A perfect, unplayed record . NM= Record appears new, At most, perhaps a barely visible sleeve mark appears on the record. It should play without any noise or skips of any kind whatsoever. VG++= Record has some extremely light surface marks. These marks do not affect play. Very nice copy VG+= Record has noticeable marks, Light surface scratches and may play with some very light noise, but doesn't overpower the music, Still very enjoyable. VG= Record has noticeable marks and scratches, plays with noise

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