Gilli Smyth

Gilli Smyth ( born June 1, 1933, London) is an English musician ( rap ) and author. With Daevid Allen, she founded the band Gong, later she had her own band "Mother Gong " and " Mother matrices ". She has published several books and produced several albums of their bands. During her time at Gong she sometimes used the pen name Shakti Yoni.

Biography

After her college years in London, his first book in 1966 and a brief marriage with a child Smyth went to Paris, where she gave lectures at the Sorbonne. She learned to know Daevid Allen, who was in 1967 with the band Soft Machine in France on tour. When Allen was refused due to visa problems, the return trip to England, the two founded the band Gong. Smyth wrote lyrics for the band, which they recited above speech at performances in "Space Whisper". In 1969 the first album of the group.

1974 left Smyth, now a mother of two babies, the band, and began to work on a solo career. 1978 came out her first solo album Mother, produced by Daevid Allen. The band, with whom she then went on tour, got the name " Mother Gong." The group temporarily resident in Australia to 1991 was active.

In the early 1990s came Gilli Smyth often solo. She also worked again with the band Gong, which again occurred under this name since 1991. In 1995 she formed with Steffie Sharp Strings Duo " GLO " ( " Goddesses Love Oranges "). In 1996, she recorded with the band " Goddess T". In 1999, the band "Mother matrices ".

In addition to all her musical activities Gilli Smyth has published several books, some with their song lyrics, poems and thoughts, sometimes with flashbacks to their musical work.