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Invisible Opera Company Of Tibet
12+ albums
space rockPsychedelic Rockrockpsychedelic70s
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The musical and cultural millipede that is the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, according to hippy mythology was originally born in a Parisian Cafe on Easter Sunday 1966, but that's only the beginning of the story... Invisible Opera Company of Tibet is a code name created by the poet-musician Daevid Allen of the Gong band, which original idea is, as he says, "an international ideological/spiritual/ aesthetic communications network for artists of all kinds.... who share the common vision of warm hearted. pan-stylistic, inclusive art forms which serve the drive towards conscious evolution". The band itself spans several continents and has more than 50 members and ex-members around the globe. Therefore there are several bands existing under similar names, which are all related: one in Australia, one in Brazil, one in the UK and one in the States. The flowering of Invisible Opera Bands all over the planet has created the possibility of a new kind of musical collective - an international umbrella group consisting of several bands, with shared or compatible songs and music, developing and promoting themselves simultaneously in different world centres. The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet first manifested as a musical outfit in 1986 in a banana shed somewhere in the Australian Rainforest under the leadership of Daevid Allen and Ruz Hibbs. This first band spent a traumatic six months in the studio recording the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet's first eponymous album and a single
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