Flying Teapot (album)

Flying Teapot
Studio album by Gong
Released	25 May 1973
Recorded	January 1973 The Manor Studios, Oxford, UK
Genre	Canterbury scene
Length	43:55
Label	Virgin
Producer	Giorgio Gomelsky
Gong chronology
Continental Circus (1972) Flying Teapot (1973) Angel's Egg (1973)

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Flying Teapot is an album by Gong, originally released by Virgin in 1973. A later edition (with different cover art) was issued by BYG in France and Japan in 1976. Co-titled "Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1", it is the first of the Radio Gnome Trilogy of albums, and was followed by Angel's Egg and You. The Trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology.

Recorded at The Manor, Oxfordshire, it was produced by Giorgio Gomelsky and engineered by "Simon Sandwitch 2 aided by Tom Zen" (presumably Simon Heyworth and Tom Newman).

In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #35 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".

Track listing

1. "Radio Gnome Invisible" (Allen) - 5:30
2. "Flying Teapot" (Allen/Moze) - 12:30
3. "The Pot Head Pixies" (Allen) - 3:00
4. "The Octave Doctors & The Crystal Machine" (Blake) - 2:00
5. "Zero The Hero & The Witch's Spell" (Allen/Blake/Tritsch) - 9:45
6. "Witch's Song/I Am Your Pussy" (Smyth / Allen) - 5:10

Personnel

The original personnel listing is as follows:

• PON voicebox - Dingo Virgin & Hi T Moonweed the favourite
• Orgone box & space whisper - the Good Witch Yoni
• VCS 3box Cynthia size A & crystal machine - Hi T Moonweed the favourite
• Split sax ie tenna & soprasax & so flooth - The Good Count Bloomdido Bad De Grass
• Gitbox - Stevie Hillside (spermguitar & slow whale), The Submarine Captain (sideral slideguitar & Dogfoot), Dingo Virgin & others (aluminium croonguitar & stumblestrum)
• VCS3 fertilised elect piano & left bank uptightright pno & Shakesperian meat bass - Francis Bacon
• Drumbox kicks and knocks - Lawrence the alien
• Congox - Rachid Whoarewe the Treeclimber
• Road crew & trux - Venux De Luxe
• Switch doctor - Wiz De Kid LIGHTS & Duke

These pseudonyms, in turn represented:

• Daevid Allen - vocals, guitar
• Gilli Smyth - vocals
• Tim Blake - keyboards, vocals
• Didier Malherbe - saxes, flute
• Steve Hillage - guitar
• Christian Tritsch - guitar
• Francis Moze - keyboards, bass
• Laurie Allan - drums
• Rachid Houari - percussion