Daevid Allen
Daevid Allen ( born January 13, 1938 in Melbourne) is an Australian rock musician, who is considered an important representative of the Canterbury Sound and out through his solo work especially well as a member of the band Soft Machine and Gong became important.
Biography
Allen appeared in 1963 in the Daevid Allen Trio with Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper and Mike Ratledge and founded in 1966 the band Soft Machine, this left but forced prior to the start of the debut LP: After performing with Soft Machine in France, he was as Australians re-entry to the UK refused.
So he remained in France, where she learned Gilli Smyth ( born 1933 ), and be founded with this and the 1968 to butted saxophonist Didier Malherbe on Mallorca, the band Gong, who got her first recording contract with the label BYG acutel. The contract also included the production of Allen's first solo album, Banana Moon, again participates in the Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine. But remained Decisive initially working with Gong. The band lived as a kind of rural commune in France. Allen and Smyth had a pair of private and retired in 1973 due to the birth of the first child temporarily to Mallorca, meanwhile, is Gong newly formed. After the birth of the second child's Gilli Smyth took the time being completely back out of the band. Allen rose from a little later also published in 1976 and his second in 1977 his third solo album.
He organized a unique Gong reunion in 1977 and also joined forces with the British festival band Here & Now on the Planet Gong. In the late 1970s he separated from Gilli Smyth. In 1980 he played with Bill Laswell and the musicians of the band material as New York Gong an album. During all his previous albums were with groups or as a soloist in the broadest sense rock -oriented, he oriented himself with the subsequent remix album Divided Alien Playbax 80 for the first time in electronic music. In 1984, he announced with the album Death of rock and other entrances even the end of the rock era. The mid-1980s, Allen spent more withdrawn in Australia, where few simple recordings were made, which he published on a compilation, published in 1990.
In the late 1980s he formed together with Didier Malherbe the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet. In 1991 he joined again with Here & Now on the Planet Gong. 1992 from the project with Malherbe Gong Maison and eventually this resulted after a concert for the 25th anniversary Gong Jubilee 1994, the reunion of the classic Gong line-up with two new studio albums and numerous tours 1996 to 2001. Afterwards, the band presented their tour activities officially and occurs only sporadically since then in appearance.
Despite the Gong reunion Allen published after 1990 several solo albums, including 1999, the album Eat me baby I'm jellybean with interpretations of jazz standards. Also in 1999, he founded the band University of Errors, which has since produced several albums, including one with new recordings of Soft Machine tracks. Since 2003, Allen also occurs with Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple and at times his son Orlando Allen as Acid Mothers Gong in appearance.