When Gong founder Daevid Allen handed the keys to the band over to guitarist/vocalist Kavus Torabi shortly before his own death in 2015, he had one instruction for him: that things should always be moving upwards, always positive.
The venerable band’s latest album, – the third by the current, post-Allen incarnation of Gong, which is out via Kscope on November 3 – follows that, it’s as much of a journey as an album. But where that record was an interstellar acid trip that evoked both space and time, takes a different approach.