Gong Shapeshifter (French issue) Celluloid 66941-2 || £11.49  $ € ¥  + p+p +tax Click for big pic Radio Gnome Invisible, Part 4... No Less! The original French CD of this unjustly neglected Gong album (it just didn't get the distribution at the time). Recorded in '91-'92, it's sometimes been seen as a rather sprawling album, but in retrospect that 'weakness' has become one of it's major strengths. It's musical and conceptual range is very large indeed and there are many marvelous tracks. No oddly out of place 'bonus' tracks' here, just the original as it was planned Also available is Daevid's Shapeshifter Book which hugely expands on the story on this album, contains all the lyrics and is illustrated the old alien as well. Track Listing: Total Runtime 66.43 Gnomerique 0.07 (Allen) Shapeshifter 4.53 (Allen/Malherbe) Hymnalayas 7.38 (Allen/Bailey) Dog-o-matic 3.00 (Watkyn/Maitra) Spirit With Me 2.27 (Allen/Ehrlich) Mr Albert Parkin 0.17 (Clark) Raindrop Tablas 0.21 (Maitra) Give My Mother a Soul Call 4.30 (Yogananda) Heaven's Gate 4.49 (Allen/Bailey) Snake Tablas 0.34 (Maitra) Loli 5.09 (Allen/Clarke) Là Bas Là Bas 4.06 (Couture/Allen) I Gotta Donkey 2.12 (Allen) Can: You Can 9.09 (Malherbe) Confiture de Rhubarbier 1.18 (Pyle) Parkin Triumphant 0.06 (Clark) Longhaired Tablas 0.14 (Maitra) Éléphant la Tête (Malherbe/Maitra) Mother's Gone 1.12(Allen) Éléphant la Cuisse 3.26 (Malherbe/Clark) White Doves 5.24 (Viraj/Sunsinger) Gnomoutro 0.27 (Allen) Musicians: Daevid Allen: Acoustic, glissando & lewd guitarplay, vocals, midwivery Graham Clark: Violins, voices Shyamal Maitra: Tablas, ghatam, djembé, darbuka, techno percs, programming. Drums on 13 Keith Bailey: Bass guitar, vocals on 2 & 9 Didier Malherbe: Bass, tenor, alto & soprano saxophones. WX7, keyboards, dogs, piccolo & flutes Pip Pyle: Drums, ten green bottles & scream Guest Musicians: Charlelie Couture: Vocals on 12 Tom the Poet: Instant radio poetry during US tour with Daevid on 13 Loy Ehrlich: Keyboards on 8, Kora on 5 Mark Robson: Keyboards & sportin vocals on 22 Aural Innovations' review of Shapeshifter's 1997 USA release on Pangaea, by Jerry Kranitz