“There’s no such thing as coincidence. It’s about being in a flow state. Joining the band I tripped to as a teenager… it all makes sense”: Gong may have lost some humour and older songs, but Kavus Torabi says they’re still supernatural

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When Gong founder Daevid Allen died in 2015, many assumed the veteran psychedelic travellers were gone for good. But Allen left Kavus Torabi in charge to continue the mission. In 2023, as they launched most recent album Unending Ascending, Torabi told Prog about life on Planet Gong.

“Do I ever feel any pressure? Only if I read comments on the internet!” jokes Kavus Torabi, singer and guitarist with Gong, the psychedelic act and later prog-rock institution founded in 1969 by Daevid Allen.