Artist: Gong Avec Daevid Allen
Album: Continental Circus
Label: Flawed Gems – GEM 64
Country: France
Released: 2011
Genre: Jazz-Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Avantgarde
Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac)
Rip type: tracks+.cue
Audio bitrate: lossless
Tracklist:
1. Blues For Findlay 11:18
2. What Do You Want? 8:59
3. Blues For Findlay - Instrumental 9:37
4. Continental Circus World 4:05
Bonus Tracks:
5. Est-Ce Que Je Suis (French Only A Side, 1970) 3:39
6. Hip Hypnotise You (French Only B Side, 1970) 3:26
7. Dreamin' It (French TV, 1970) 7:12
8. Never Fight Another War (French TV, January 1971) 3:14
9. Excerpts From "Camembert Electrique" (French TV, January 1971) 2:14
10.Est-ce Que Je Suis (French TV, January 1971) 4:46
11.Fohat Digs Holes In Space (French TV, April 1972) 4:38
12.Dynamite (French TV, September 1972) 3:51
13.Never Glid Before (French TV, September 1973) 5:40
14.I Am Your Pussy (French TV, September 1973) 5:04
Personnel:
Bass – Christian Tritsch, Mike Howlett (tracks: 13, 14)
Drums – Mac Poole (tracks: 11), Pierre Moerlen (tracks: 13, 14), Pip Pyle, Rachid Houari (tracks: 5 to 10)
French Horn – Daniel Laloux (tracks: 7)
Guitar – Steve Hillage (tracks: 13, 14)
Percussion – Venux DeLuxe (tracks: 12)
Saxophone, Flute – Didier Malherbe
Synthesizer – Tim Blake (tracks: 13, 14)
Violin – Dieter Gewissler (tracks: 7)
Vocals [Space Whisper] – Gilli Smyth
Vocals, Guitar – Daevid Allen
Notes
Continental Circus is the original soundtrack album of the film of the same name, containing music credited to "Gong avec Daevid Allen", recorded in April 1971 and originally released in April 1972 in France on Philips 6332 033.
The film's subject matter was motor cycle racing and was directed by Jérôme Laperrousaz.
No recording or musician details are provided with the original LP release, but it was recorded prior to (but released after) Camembert Electrique, as "What Do You Want?" is the same piece as "Fohat Digs Holes in Space" on the latter album, but the version here has different lyrics, and is played slower and more carefully, as though it were a newer piece to the band.[according to whom?]
The track titled "Continental Circus World" consists of dialogue and sound effects from the film, backed with a looped excerpt from "Blues for Findlay"; therefore the album actually contains only one new composition