Though the Gongmaison album was initially intended to be the self-titled debut album of the Gong offshoot featuring band mainstays Daevid Allen and Didier Malherbe, over time it has come to be considered a part of the discographical continuum of Gong proper. Within a couple of years, this version of the band began simply calling itself Gong anyhow. Allen, who founded Gong in the late ‘60s, had worked briefly with the members of Material as New York Gong ten years earlier, but had then returned to Australia and become involved in a variety of other projects.

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