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Daevid Allen was born in Melbourne Australia although he

has been a traveller of the world for many years. Daevid

came to England in 1960 and met up with Robert Wyatt

whilst lodging with the Wyatt family. Daevid and Robert

struck up an immediate rapport, which would ultimately

result in the pair playing together in Soft Machine. Before

that Daevid spent time in Paris where he met and

experimented with Terry Riley and also performed with

William Burroughs. Daevid also formed a number of bands

including The Daevid Allen Trio. Some of the trio's early

recordings were subsequently released however it was with

The Soft Machine alongside Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayers

and Robert Wyatt that Daevid Allen first came to the

attention of many people. Soft Machine was at the forefront

of the psychedelia movement and played at many

prominent gigs at this time such as the IT launch at the

Roundhouse alongside Pink Floyd. Following a gig in St.

Tropez Daevid was refused re entry to England and decided

to return to France and from there Daevid and Gilli Smyth

went to Deia where they met Didier Malherbe who would go

on to become a vital part of their next band Gong.

Gong also moved between many musical genres from jazz,

rock and even ambient music before the term had even been

coined. Daevid Allen however left Gong in 1975 along with

Gilli Smyth and the band would carry on for a number of

years without the guiding force of Daevid Allen initially led

by Steve Hillage and subsequently in a more jazz oriented

direction by Pierre Moerlen.

Daevid then spent many years moving around the world

(America, Australia, Spain) all the time forming bands and

recording until in 1988 he returned to England and formed

Gongmaison along with Didier Malherbe in tow once again.

Gong has continued to this day constantly re inventing itself

and proving to be as popular as ever with many archive and

new recordings becoming available.

Weird Biscuit Teatime was recorded by a quartet featuring

Gong' s Daevid Allen, Spirits Burning/Spaceship Eyes' Don

Falcone, Michael Clare & Trey Sabetelli. A combination of

instrumentals and songs, the first track, 'DJ Herbal Extract'

an instrumental that features some great guitar work and

sounds not unlike Daevid's work with University Of Errors.

The album also includes the tracks Fashion Victim, Lavender

and 'O Dear'. The mixture of songs and instrumentals gives

the album a varied although consistent feel and is another

album that will appeal to many fans of Daevid Allen. 

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