Shamal (album)

Shamal
Studio album by Gong
Released 13 February 1976[1]
Recorded

December 1975[2]

at Basing Street Studios, London and Olympic Studios, London;

mixed at Sarm Studios, London

Genre Progressive rock[3]
Length 40:13
Label Virgin Records
Producer Nick Mason
Gong chronology
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(1974)		 Shamal
(1976)		 Shapeshifter
(1992)
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Shamal is an album by Gong, originally released in early 1976.

The album was written and recorded without the group's founder member Daevid Allen, and consequently sounds different, with fewer of the hippie-flavoured eccentricities of the previous albums. It still has a generally progressive rock-influenced approach, however, especially with Steve Hillage's guitar, slowly drifting into a jazz fusion sound. It is usually regarded as a transitional album between Allen's incarnation of the band and the Pierre Moerlen-led fusion lineup of the late 1970s. The album was produced by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Wingful of Eyes" (Howlett) – 8:19
  2. "Chandra" (Lemoine) – 7:16
  3. "Bambooji" (Malherbe) – 5:21

Side B

  1. "Cat in Clark's Shoes" (Malherbe) – 7:45
  2. "Mandrake" (Moerlen) – 5:07
  3. "Shamal" (Bauer, Howlett, Lemoine, Malherbe, Moerlen) – 8:58

Personnel

Musicians

Production

References

  1. ↑ "GONG-Chronology". calyx.perso.neuf.fr/gong. 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "GONG-Biography". calyx.perso.neuf.fr/gong. 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  3. 1 2 "allmusic ((( Shamal > Review )))". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
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