Gong celebrate the release of their long awaited new album Unending Ascending with ‘My Guitar Is A Spaceship’ and what can only be described as the essence of Gong in visual form.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/RrJRaWzXvW8

Download/stream Unending Ascending here: https://gong.lnk.to/unending

‘My Guitar Is A Spaceship’ was the first to be written for the new album as Kavus Torabi explains “The song came into being in the spring of 2022 and we actually debuted it on the Glade Stage at Glastonbury Festival that summer. It was the first song we wrote for the new album. More than anything we’ve done together, it seemed to pop out fully formed. That morning none of it existed and then an hour later all of it did.” He continues: “I don’t think we were even trying to write a tune at that point! What a feeling, we sort of couldn’t believe we came up with it. I said “Man, can you imagine debuting this song at Glastonbury festival?”. Sure enough, two days later we received a message asking us if we’d like to headline the Glade Stage that year. At this point the existence of magic is not even up for debate. The tune is just one propulsive, cycling riff that seems to blast us and the audience upward, hence the lyrics, from which we took the title of the album. Once we’d written this, we knew the rest of the album would be great, it kind of defined the direction we would take as we wrote the remaining seven songs. I honestly can’t conceive of a Gong gig, moving forward, where we don’t play it.”

About Gong:

The universe of Gong began in 1969 when Daevid Allen was inspired by a profound psychedelic vision. A founder member of Soft Machine, Allen incorporated his spiritual and metaphysical leanings into an evolving collective. More a mythology than a band in the conventional sense, Gong established itself as one of the most unique, innovative and experimental rock groups of the seventies, through an exploratory mix of rock, jazz and psychedelia with elements of mysticism and surrealism, unafraid to deliver its messages directly, obliquely or whimsically. The current incarnation, who were put together by Daevid after his swansong album with Gong, ‘I See You’, honour his intention that Gong do not die with him, urging the band to “carry it on into new unknown heights and depths far beyond anything I could ever imagine myself”.

The collective of Kavus Torabi, Dave Sturt, Fabio Golfetti, Ian East and Cheb Nettles is the most stable in Gong‘s illustrious history, having written, recorded and toured together for eight years since Allen‘s passing. A dynamic, powerful and explosive live band, their music draws from the credo of the original Gong while remaining committed to pushing the composition, performances and message into new realms, paying no mind to nostalgia. Gong in 2023 continue the ethics, attitude and lifestyle that was always woven into the fabric of the band.

Gong’s Unending Ascending is available on CD / Black LP / Limited edition Green LP and Digitally.

Gong online:

https://www.gongband.com
https://gongband.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/officialgong
https://twitter.com/gong_band
https://open.spotify.com/artist/47yvARr7dCOKqvjDVwfbf3
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/gong/6663678
https://kscopemusic.com/artists/gong

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New Jersey rock band COLOSSAL STREET JAM has released their single, “No Way to Live,” with Independent, taste-maker label, FRETBAR RECORDS. With soaring vocals from front-man GENE POTTS, Hammond organ by ERIC SAFKA, melodic guitar in the talented hands of SAL MARRA, and a rhythmic foundation from DAVE HALPERN, this new release will quickly become a hit, with an electrifying new music video slated to release late November, 2023, followed by the full album in 2024.

Keep your eye on COLOSSAL STREET JAM!

“No Way to Live”, the actual song , started out about the daily struggles in life we all go thru. The song ended up being the start of an album and songs that touch on so many social and emotional issues during a rough time for everyone in the world. We never set out to make a concept album, but it definitely has that feel when you go from song to song.” – GENE POTTS

“We are very excited to have signed with Fretbar Records and Jimmy Warren Entertainment Group. The band will hit the road to support “No Way to Live” throughout 2024 and our single will be on radio worldwide starting this week.” – COLOSSAL STREET JAM

“’NO WAY TO LIVE’ reminds me of what great rock n roll was in the 70’s. We believe fans are going to dive in and fall in love with COLOSSAL STREET JAM.” – JIMMY WARREN (President, FRETBAR RECORDS)

It’s once been said that all roads lead to home…
That’s precisely where this long-time band of brothers & creative soulmates found themselves, when their well-traveled musical roads converged.

It was at this poignant juncture that COLOSSAL STREET JAM was born.
One may define their electrifying synergy as the cosmic melding & explosive concoction of abstract minds, unique talent, inherent soul, and tireless passion for their beloved craft.

Having a deep & mutual admiration for one another, as well as having tremendous respect for their many, and diverse collective influences, who helped shape their gritty, melodic, psychedelically tinged hard rock stylings, each member truly brings their own individuality, and nuance to the mix.

An eclectic potpourri for the senses, CSJ ultimately, and seamlessly fuse their independent ideas to deliver a singular vision & signature sound that can easily be coined as “New Classic Rock” for the ages.

This hard-driving, 70’s inspired, 5-piece ensemble is comprised of Gene Potts (vocals)… Sal Marra (guitar/ vocals)… Tony Flora (bass)… Dave Halpern (drums)… and Eric Safka (keys).

With their roots firmly planted and their musical heritage tightly in place, CSJ has long been an integral part the legendary Asbury Park, NJ music scene.

Always proud to honor these roots, and the place that gave them their start, the band forever carries with them that feeling of tradition, and heart that has endeared them to growing audiences both nationally and internationally.

In 2016, the band’s release, Living Free, was met with critical acclaim and worldwide press. The albums single, “Songbird” received extensive radio airplay both locally, and globally.

In 2018, that same record won an award for Australian Indie Album of The Year For Internet Radio.

It subsequently remained on the Indie charts, Down Under, for 6 months.

Later that year, in November of 2018, CSJ released their follow up album, Just Take Hold…

Once again, they were greeted with extensive Indie and College radio airplay for that record’s namesake single, “Just Take Hold”, as well as for their cover version of the Sugarloaf classic, “Green Eyed Lady”.

In May and December of 2019, CSJ completed two successful European tours, which journeyed them throughout The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

As the world paused for the next couple years, due to the global pandemic, CSJ was still hard at work on their next creative endeavor.

In 2021, they released a new single, “No Way To Live”…

Just as before, they garnered massive airplay, both locally and overseas.

On March 1st, 2023, the long-awaited full length, 11- song album, which was on hold, due to the state of the world was finally released.

Baring the same name, as that previous single, this record triggered the launch of a full-scale publicity campaign, along with upcoming shows in both the US and Europe.

COLOSSAL STREET JAM has shared stages nationwide with the likes of Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad, Robbie Krieger of The Doors, The Black Crowes, Kings X, Stone Temple Pilots, Rival Suns, Blackberry Smoke, The Drive By Truckers, The Hold Steady, Gov’t Mule, Johnny Winter, Sebastian Bach, Bruce Dickinson, Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Morse, Zebra, Deep Purple, Leslie West, Clarence Clemons, and countless others.

A triumphant comeback for italian deathcore act BLEED SOMEONE DRY with “Hikikomori”, new single available now in all digital platforms in partnership with Superbia Music Group. The track attempts to analyse and draw attention to this rapidly increasing phenomenon. Wondering about the sensations, emotions and feelings experienced. How anger mixed with melancholy and resignation towards social models that are increasingly based on individualism to the detriment of compassion and empathy, leads to withdrawal from all social activities as a form of rebellion. A self-exclusion, in cells that have no bars, but walls decorated with posters of our childhood, are no longer places of expiation but of shelter, from what is outside and makes us feel inadequate, where a screen becomes a portal able to get away from and stay in touch with the outside world at the same time. That world that every day pushes us to give more, to have to be more, to achieve more, giving up what perhaps most of all makes us special, our humanity..

“I sink into my black hole, in the peace of darkness, I found my rest from pain”

“These three sentences encapsulate the essence of what we want to convey with  ‘Hikikomori’” explain the band “The past few years have, on a deeply personal level, represented a profound sense of apathy towards everything that surrounds us… a need to estrange ourselves from a context that has led us to “curl up” within ourselves, searching for a solution, something conclusive… We have most likely been overwhelmed by recent events that have affected global society as a whole (pandemics, wars, crisis), and we have internalised them in the small realm of our private lives, feeling the need, even on a musical level, to pause, isolate ourselves, and reflect inwardly in the quest for something stimulating and new… And so we imagined ourselves as recluses, in cells without bars, sheltered from what is outside and makes us feel inadequate, where a screen becomes a portal capable of distancing us and staying in contact with the outside world at the same time. That world that pushes us every day to give more, to be more, to obtain more, relinquishing what perhaps, above all, makes us special: our humanity. The perfect portrait of Hikikomori, a concept that we have studied, developed, and realised in this single, which has given us the opportunity to reintroduce ourselves after 4 years since our last release”.

“Hikikomori” was recorded and mixed at The Grid Europe by Jonathan Mazzeo, master by Andrea Bernardi (Eleven Mastering) and video directed by Ruben Spizzichino.