Bright Spirit sees Gong at their experimental best, more adventurous and more open to the dream than ever.
And dreams are central here. Not just as lyrical imagery, but as a way of thinking - where psychedelia, love, and the thin membrane between worlds feed into the music.
The opener, 'Dream Of Mine', unfurls like a transmission from the inbetween, its midsection blooming into harmonies and an angular melody that feels like a key turning in a long-awaited lock. Frontman, Kavus Torabi, describes it as a moment everything has been pointing toward, a flash of clarity inside the swirl.
Elsewhere, there's tenderness - unexpected perhaps, but unmistakably Gong, 'Fragrance Of Paradise' being Torabi's first- ever love song. 'The Wonderment' finds Gong in deeply meditative form, a mystical and explorative journey both inwards and outwards, timeless and expansive, another piece of the kaleidoscopic puzzle that makes up Bright Spirit.
