GONG GO LUNAR ON THEIR UPCOMING “MAGICKAL” RECORD

The third album by the post-Daevid Allen line-up is the second in a planned pan-galactic suite.

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When Gong founder Daevid Allen handed the keys to the band over to guitarist/vocalist Kavus Torabi shortly before his own death in 2015, he had one instruction for him: that things should always be moving upwards, always positive. The venerable band’s latest album, Unending Ascending – the third by the current, post-Allen incarnation of Gong, which is out via Kscope on November 3 – follows that edict to the letter. Like its predecessor, 2019’s The Universe Also Collapses, it’s as much of a journey as an album. But where that record was an interstellar acid trip that evoked both space and time, Unending Ascending takes a different approach. “We see The Universe Also Collapses as the ‘space’ record, and this is our ‘lunar’ record,” Torabi tells Prog, speaking from his…

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