- Camembert Electrique
Infobox Album
Name = Camembert Electrique
Type = studio
Artist = Gong
Released = 1971
Recorded = 1971
Genre =Progressive rock ,psychedelic rock ,space rock
Length =
Label = Virgin
Producer = Pierre Lattes
Reviews =
Last album =
This album =
Next album ="Camembert Electrique" is an album by Gong, recorded and originally released in 1971.
Recorded at Chateau Herouville,
Normandy ,France , produced by Pierre Lattes and engineered by Gilles Salle. Jean Karakos ("Byg Jean Kastro Kornflakes") was executive producer. Originally issued by Virgin Records in the UK as a "loss-leader" at 49 pence, catalogue number VC502, currently available in the UK on CD reissue through Snapper Music, catalogue number SNAP 009 CD.Track listing
#Radio Gnome Prediction (Allen) (listed as "Radio Gnome" on some CD reissues)
#You Can't Kill Me (Allen)
#I've Bin Stone Before (Allen)
#Mister Long Shanks (Allen) / O Mother (Allen) / I Am Your Fantasy (Smyth/Tritsch)
#Dynamite / I Am Your Animal (Smyth/Tritsch)
#Wet Cheese Delirium (Allen) (wrongly spelt "Delirum" on Snapper CD reissue)
#Squeezing Sponges Over Policemen's Heads (Allen)
#Fohat Digs Holes in Space (Allen/Smyth)
#And You Tried So Hard (Tritsch/Allen) (listed as "Tried So Hard" on some CD reissues)
#Tropical Fish: Selene (Allen)
#Gnome the Second (Allen)Personnel
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Daevid Allen ("Bert Camembert") - guitar, vocals, bass guitar on "Tried So Hard"
*Gilli Smyth ("Shakti Yoni") - vocals
*Didier Malherbe ("Bloomdido Bad De Grass") - saxophones and flute
*Christian Tritsch ("Submarine Captain") - bass, lead guitar on "Tried So Hard"
*Pip Pyle - drumsAlso listed among the personnel are "Venux De Luxe" (Francis Linon), the band's live sound engineer, as "switch doctor and mix master", and
Robert Wyatt 's son Sam.
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