Flying Teapot is an album by Gong

Gong (band)

Gong is a Franco-British progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Francis Moze, Mike Howlett...

, 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

Angel's Egg (album)

Angel's Egg is an album by Gong, recorded and originally released on Virgin Records in 1973.It was recorded using the Manor Mobile at Pavillon du Hay, France, and mixed at The Manor, Oxfordshire, England...

 and You

You (Gong album)

You is an album by psychedelic rock band Gong, recorded and originally released in 1974.Recorded at The Manor, Oxfordshire, side 1 was mixed at Pye Studios, Marble Arch, while side 2 at the Manor...

. The Trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology.

Recorded at The Manor, Oxfordshire, it was produced by Giorgio Gomelsky

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 and engineered by "Simon Sandwitch 2 aided by Tom Zen" (presumably Simon Heyworth and Tom Newman

Tom Newman (musician)

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).

In the Q

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 & Mojo

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 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
  Daevid Allen
  Daevid Allen , sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong .-Biography:In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered...
  
   - vocals, guitar
• Gilli Smyth
  Gilli Smyth
  Gilli Smyth is a musician who performed with the bands Gong, Mother Gong and Planet Gong as well as several solo albums and albums in collaborations other members of Gong...
  
   - vocals
• Tim Blake
  Tim Blake
  Timothy 'Tim' Blake , keyboards, vocalist instrumentalist and composer with both Gong, and Hawkwind. Blake is best known for his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Patrice Warrener...
  
   - keyboards, vocals
• Didier Malherbe
  Didier Malherbe
  Didier Antonin Malherbe is a saxophonist and flautist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury sound band Gong....
  
   - saxes, flute
• Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
  
   - guitar
• Christian Tritsch - guitar
• Francis Moze
  Francis Moze
  Francis Moze is a French bass player, best known for his work in Magma, Gong and Pierre Moerlen's Gong.Moze played in an early line-up with Magma. When he left the group, Giorgio Gomelsky introduced him to Gong. He played on the album Flying Teapot...
  
   - keyboards, bass
• Laurie Allan
  Laurie Allan
  Laurie Allan is an English drummer, best known for stints in Delivery and Gong. He has also played with Robert Wyatt, for example on his albums Rock Bottom and Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard....
  
   - drums
• Rachid Houari - percussion