Shapeshifter (Gong album)
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| Studio album by Gong | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Recorded | Sep 1991 - Jul 1992 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Jazz rock, World music | |||
| Length | 66:00 | |||
| Label | Celluloid, Lightyear | |||
| Producer | Dino Watkyn, Nigel Gilroy | |||
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Cover of the 1997 re-release
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Shapeshifter is the seventh studio album by the progressive rock band Gong, released in 1992.
With main character Zero the hero, the album continues the Gong mythology, the central part of which was formed with the Radio Gnome Trilogy of albums, comprising Flying Teapot in 1973, followed by Angel's Egg, 1973, and You in 1974.
Over the years since 1992, there have been different releases of the album with different numbers of tracks. On "the original as it was planned", the Gong website lists #12: "Là Bas Là Bas" and #13: "I Gotta Donkey" - these are not found on the 1997 Lightyear release. That release has a closing bonus track titled "Goddess Invocation Om Riff", recorded live at Ynys Witren at summer solstice 1992.
In the Allmusic review of the 1997 release and in its Discogs entry, additional personnel is listed:
"Goddess Invocation Om Riff" (Allen, Blake, Hillage, Howlett, Smyth) − 12:58
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