News of all sorts of goings on from Planet Gong…
ROUND THREE
A band who continue their role as a psychedelic institution, Gong have announced their new album Bright Spirit set for release on 13th March on the Kscope label. The news comes alongside a new single and video for the track, The Wonderment.
Bright Spirit marks the third instalment in a trilogy that began with The Universe Also Collapses (2019) and continued with Unending Ascending (2023). Recorded with long-time collaborator Frank Byng in his South London studio, Bright Spirit sees Gong at their experimental best, more adventurous and even more open to the dream than ever.
DREAMs ARE CENTRAL…
Not just as lyrical imagery, but as a way of thinking – where psychedelia, love, and the thin membrane between worlds feed into the music. The opener, Dream Of Mine, unfurls like a transmission from the in-between, as frontman Kavus Torabi describes it as a moment everything has been pointing toward, a flash of clarity inside the swirl.
Elsewhere, there’s tenderness – unexpected perhaps, but unmistakably Gong. Fragrance Of Paradise being Torabi’s first-ever love song and new single, The Wonderment, finds the band in deeply meditative form, a mystical and explorative journey both inwards and outwards, timeless and expansive, another piece of the kaleidoscopic puzzle that makes up Bright Spirit.
GONG UK TOUR DATES WITH HENGE
Mar 19 – Brighton, UK – Gong & Henge
Mar 20 – Canterbury, UK – Gong & Henge
Mar 21 – Swansea, UK – Gong & Henge
Mar 25 – Birmingham, UK
Mar 26 – Lincoln, UK – Gong & Henge
Mar 27 – Manchester, UK – Gong & Henge
Mar 28 – Liverpool, UK – Gong & Henge
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