Track Listing

1. City of Self Fascination
2. Digital Girl
3. How to Stay Alive
4. Escape Control Delete
5. Yoni Poem
6. Dance with the Pixies
7. Wacky Baccy Banker
8. Year 2032
9. Robo-Warriors
10. Guitar Zero
11. Gris Gris Girl
12. Wave and a Particle
13. Pinkle Ponkle
14. Portal

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1575 in Music
• Released on: 2009-09-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .18 pounds

Customer Reviews

It's all Gong a little bit magical...
The original gang reunited to bring peace and love to our time all the way from 1974 to our troubled days...peace and love with the funkiest, catchiest rhythms. Oh boy, this album is good! Infectious grooves that slip pleasantly aboard the busiest head and re-decorate.

Granted, one or two of the tracks are not stunning, but only 1 or 2 - 'How to Stay Alive' and 'Robo-Warriors'. But 'Escape, Control, Delete' would get even the dead dancing. As would 'Waccy, Baccy, Banker'. Things go a little bit blissed out when Mr Hillage cranks it up for 'Portal' and on 'Pinkle Ponkle' it's like the Ozrics have popped in for a cup of tea. With enough space whispers, pixies and nods to Zero to keep you going, this is a marvellous, warm and beautiful album from a legendary band. Buy it without hesitation and love it from the first play.

Return of the pot heads
I've been a big fan of both Gongs ( Daevid Allen's and Pierre Moerlen's) for the last 36 years. Both different in terms of musical presentation however, both consistant in terms of attracting musicians who have graduated from the acadamy of musical excellence. 2032 takes up the story of Zero The Hero, who has remained on planet earth since 1969, and the Octive Doctors who are back from the planet Gong after leaving earth some 35 years ago. 2032 takes up where 'You' left off in 1974 with a number of the same cast; namely Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage, Miquette Guiraudy, Gilli Smyth, Mike Howlett and Didier Malherbe. Musically 2032 is the nearest thing to 'You' when considering any of Gong's output over the last four decades, despite the noticable absence of Steve's Glissando trademark guitar and the hippy trippy synthesiser sounds of the early seventies. The Orb's influence also leaves it's mark on a numbers of tracks. The album is an accurate and amusing reflection of how different life on earth is now compared to when Zero and the Octive Doctors first set foot on a planet without PC's, mobile phones, greedy bankers and the internet.

Just what is needed
What can I say.....wonderful!

Its so good, really on form. And Steve and Miquette back in the fold as well.....Bliss.

It feels like the first time I heard "You", all those years ago, yet so of this time.

You will not be disappointed.