Daevid Allen
Now Is The Happiest Time Of Your Life
FormatCDLabelCharly RecordsGenreExperimental
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CD version. Now Is the Happiest Time of Your Life is the second solo album by Daevid Allen, the founder of Gong, released in 1977 as the follow-up to Good Morning. Allen produced it and plays guitar and sings, with the guitarists Joan Biblioni and Pepe Milan, Sam Gopal on percussion, Victor Peraino on keyboards, Xavier Riba on violin and Marianne Oberasche on harp; Gilli Smyth and the Spanish group Euterpe accompany him.
There are nine tracks. I Am, at eleven minutes, is the longest, Flamenco Zero and Crocodile Nonsense Poem last under two minutes each, and Deya Goddess closes the record. Allen's glissando guitar runs through acoustic guitars, harp, violin and tabla-like percussion in a quiet, organic sound, far from the louder side of Gong, and Zero the Hero, the green character of the Gong trilogy, is never far away.
Charly Records CD reissue, newly remastered.
| 1 | Flamenco Zero | 1:46 | |
| 2 | Why Do We Treat Ourselves Like We Do? | 6:51 | |
| 3 | Tally & Orlando Meet The Cockpot Pixie | 3:15 | |
| 4 | See You On The Moontower | 5:41 | |
| 5 | Poet For Sale | 3:28 | |
| 6 | Crocodile Nonsense Poem | 0:59 | |
| 7 | Only Make Love If You Want To | 5:37 | |
| 8 | I Am | 11:10 | |
| 9 | Deya Goddess | 6:45 |
- Jose "Pepsi" Milan
- Acoustic Guitar
- Jean-Luc Young
- Executive-Producer
- Marianne Oberasher
- Harp (8)
- Ramón Farran
- Strings (8)
- Victor Peraino
- Synthesizer (3, 7)
- Sam Gopal
- Tabla (Samuel Gopal)
- Vera Violin
- Violin (2)
- Xavier Riba
- Violin (4)
- Orlando Allen
- Vocals
- Taliesin Allen
- Vocals
- Daevid Allen
- Vocals, Guitar
