| Banana Moon | ||||
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| Studio album by Daevid Allen | ||||
| Released | 1971 | |||
| Recorded | January and February, 1971 at Marquee Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock, space rock | |||
| Label | BYG Actuel 45 | |||
| Producer | Jean Georgakarakos, Jean-Luc Young; Executive: Pierre Lattes | |||
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Banana Moon is a 1971 studio album by Daevid Allen. The album is sometimes referred to as Bananamoon and it was also reissued as a Gong album.[2]
The band features Allen's former Soft Machine bandmate Robert Wyatt on drums, Gary Wright from Spooky Tooth, Maggie Bell from Stone the Crows, as well as Christian Tritsch and Pip Pyle from Gong. Some of the musicians on this album would subsequently contribute to Kevin Ayers' 1975 album Bananamour.
The track "Memories", basically a Robert Wyatt performance, was initially recorded in 1967 by Soft Machine (with Daevid Allen on guitar) and later also covered by Material on their 1982 album One Down with a lead vocal by Whitney Houston. "Stoned Innocent Frankenstein" was re-recorded in 1978 by Allen in collaboration with Here and Now as Planet Gong on their Floating Anarchy Live 1977 album.
The initial issue featured the painting (of moons or planets) by Didier Léon on the front of the gatefold cover, with liner notes written by Daevid Allen[3] Subsequent issues included even one by BYG Actuel that was credited to Gong and had the photo from the gatefold inside on the front.[2] The first UK pressing, in 1975 on Virgin Records subsidiary Caroline, had an alternative Daevid Allen drawn cover, featuring a peeled banana/moon playing a guitar.[4]
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