Dashiell Hedayat: Obsolete (Shandar, 1971)
When Daevid Allen and his companions fer / for / marono in Paris, made the evidence of transmission from the planet Gong collaborating on an album of Dashiell Hedayat (Daniel Theron) a poet bizarre "that he made love in a pink Chrysler dropped from the roof smashed into a courtyard," as the song that opens the disc Obsolete just Chryler : Your says Chrysler has breached the ' lover, Dashiell answered Yes, but we are all smashed (défoncés: stoned) during 8 days, with future Gong (Daevid Allen, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilly Smith and Christian Tritsch) close to the Strawberry Studio Hérouville in the month of maggio'71, an old castle, to record, in the mist of the guns, Sbilanciamoci, the disc rock that had no equal in France ... The ingredients of the formula that Gong developed later by the Space Wispers glissando psychedelic jam with improvised, structured and repetitive bass are all there. "We had a sense of fleeting, like the dark feeling to head towards a catastrophe, and we had an arrogant elegance, extraordinary energy ..." Obsolete : a record final and indispensable.
There is also, however, the story of the tapes that were stolen WSBurroughs Daevid Allen from Dashiell and inserted into the disk without authorization (at the end of the first side) into thinking that the guru of the Beat Generation had bothered to help with the recordings, which you continue to read in various reviews and even on the CD reissue of Mantra in 2005. Dashiell also said that Gong did not participate actively in the songwriting and solely as a studio musician and played the pieces he had written himself, comparing himself to Bob Dylan and the disc he did with the Band. These things have made me dislike the character since those times and I wanted to buy the disc that I was offered a ridiculous price, today I must say I'm sorry ... a little bit to Daevid
Obsolete disc is a pre- Gong, it is easy to recognize. It has the flavor of the time with Hedayatt that provides air easygoing, humorous and enchanting surreal texts (musical poetry in progress) and should listen to this album stoned to high volume, the most off-key as possible. (Stoned as impossible)
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