INTRO IF IT’S OUT THERE, IT’S IN HERE
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.
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.