Daevid Allen & Euterpe: Wise Man In Your Heart [1976]
featuring Mike "Fingers" Howlett on bass guitar and Pierre Moerlen on percussion
Great story behind this album: At a Gong gig in Cheltenham in 1975 Daevid refuses to go on stage, claiming a "wall of force" stands in his way. So he leaves the band and decamps with life-partner Gilli Smyth and her two children to the island of Majorca to recuperate and generally get his space together. There he falls in with a quintet of Catalan musicians calling themselves Euterpe, after the Greek God of Music. They record and mix Good Morning at Daevid's Majorcan pleasure palace on a 4 track Teac and 2 Revox's.
As for this track, featuring two guest Gongers (see above), I will let it speak for itself, except to add that when something is the bomb, it's the bomb, and this is the fucking Bomb.
Available on CD! But it will cost you a pretty penny.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
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4 comments:
$1000 for a CD. I don't get it.
Crazy notwithstanding...but it's worth whatever someone is willing to shell out for it. I'd gladly accept a grand for it. So would you.
This was my favourite Sunday morning record at a time when every morning was Sunday. "Good morning, good mo-orning" from side 1 obviously, and then, after some tea, it was time to wake up a little bit more with this hypnotic groove.
I still have the album but no gramophone at the moment, so this post was a b-i-g treat and a reminder for me. Thanks.
Hey Leo -- thanks for the comment! As it happens, I'm listening to Now Is The Happiest... again right now. Talk about an overdue CD reissue...
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