Daevid Allen

Bananamoon Obscura 1 & 2 (Floating World)

Remastered versions of albums 1 and 2 from Allen’s huge, and currently largely unavailable Bananamoon Obscura series (hopefully suggesting there’s more to come), the first being rehearsal recordings from 1977 with Spanish band Euterpe – which may not sound too enticing but is in fact full of songs of pretty reasonable demo quality and is, mostly, great fun, The real gem here however is the live Brainville show with Hugh Hopper and Pip Pyle which neatly matches Allen’s lunacy with Hopper and Pyle’s jazzy space-rock chops. Let’s hope that Allen’s current fight with cancer is successful and there’s more psychedelic luna-jazz still to come.