About Time (New York Gong album)

About Time
Studio album by Daevid Allen and New York Gong
Released	1979
Recorded	B.M.O., Willow, New York 1979
Genre	No Wave
Label	Charly Records, CRL 5021
Producer	Daevid Allen
Material chronology
About Time (1979) Temporary Music (1981)

Professional ratings
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Allmusic	[1]

About Time is a 1979 album by Daevid Allen and Gong-offshoot New York Gong. The basic line-up of New York Gong would continue as Material.

"Much Too Old" / "I Am A Freud" was issued as a 1979 7" single (Charly, CYS 1056), and "Jungle Windo(w)" / "Much Too Old" / "Materialism" as a 1980 10" EP.

Allen also released the 1982 album Divided Alien Playbax 80 which featured tracks recorded during these sessions. A further album, Daevid Allen and the Divided Alien Clockwork Band was released in 1997 (Blueprint, BP 269) of a live performance from the Squat Theatre, New York, August 1980 which featured tape loops from the Divided Alien Playbax 80 album. The Daevid Allen 1983 Alien in New York EP (Charly Records, CYZ 10) featured two tracks which were also based on tapes loops from these sessions.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Preface" (Daevid Allen, Michael Beinhorn) – 1:28
2. "Much Too Old" (Allen, Bill Laswell) – 2:43
3. "Black September" (Allen, Cliff Cultreri) – 4:03
4. "Materialism" (Laswell, Cultreri) – 3:12
5. "Strong Woman" (Allen, Bill Bacon) – 4:30
6. "I Am a Freud" (Allen) – 1:46

Side 2

7. "O My Photograph" (Allen) – 9:10
8. "Jungle Windo(w)" (Allen) – 6:19
9. "Hours Gone" (Allen) – 4:05

Personnel

• Bill Laswell – bass
• Michael Beinhorn – synthesiser ("Preface")
• Fred Maher – drums
• Daevid Allen – rhythm guitar, glissando guitar, vocals
• Cliff Cultreri – guitar (2,3,4,6,7)
• Bill Bacon – drums

Additional personnel

• Gary Windo – tenor sax ("Jungle Windo(w)")
• Don Davis – alto sax ("I Am a Freud")
• Mark Kramer – organ ("Hours Gone")

References

1. Ross Smith, David (2011). "About Time – New York Gong | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 24 June 2011.