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Hey fellow Gong freaks help the amazingly gifted Josh Pollock ex University Of Errors Acidmother's Gong release a solo album dedicated to the memory of Daevid Allen !
Josh :
For many years I had the good fortune of collaborating with musician/art-warrior Daevid Allen--founder of European psych-rock bands/institutions Gong and Soft Machine, cohort of William Burroughs, Jimi Hendrix, and Terry Riley, guitarist, singer, poet, madman, and all-around boon to civilisation.
To say he was an 'inspiration' goes several cosmic levels beyond mere understatement. But to say he was also a dear friend and kindred spirit would be pretty accurate.
When he passed in 2015, it hit me hard, and yet I was tongue-tied. Loved ones reached out, but for some reason mere words seemed spectacularly trite and ridiculous. I was incapable of expressing anything of the squall inside me, until, by chance, my solo guitar project, The Lake Millions, was asked to perform live on the air at KZSU-FM a few days later, at midnight. And it all came out. Pure, uncut, straight from my heart through my fingers--the despair, the anger, the grief, the confusion, the acceptance, even his journey from this world to the next--a full-on threnody ('a song of lamentation for the dead'), captured for posterity by the fine folks at KZSU, thank God. When I heard it back I thought, 'This...THIS is how I feel about it. THIS is what I've been dying to say, and this is the only way I could've said it.' I also thought, perhaps not uncoincidentally, that it was far and away my best, purest and bitchin'est guitar playing to date. I knew this was special, and needed to exist as a thing. And not just any thing--a special thing, an idiosyncratic thing: a 7" vinyl single, with two of the key songs on either side (one an edit exclusive to the vinyl) with a free download of the entire piece included. (The vinyl-impaired can, of course, enjoy a 'mere' download.)
I'm most of the way there: the piece is already recorded, edited, mixed, titled ("Threnodius Daevidius"), mastered, and designed--it just needs to get pressed up, and for this I could use a little help. I don't normally do this sort of thing, but this record is an important one to me--if you could help me get this thing into the world, I would be beyond grateful.
No amount to small...
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