Invisible Opera Company of Tibet (Daevid Allen, Robert Calvert, Gilli Smith) - Invisible Opera Company of Tibet (1987)

The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet is a code name created by Daevid Allen, 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 name was first imagined by Allen in the mid-1970s following experiences of a higher intelligence that guided the progress of his band Gong and was used in a French spelling ‘Compagnie d'Opera Invisible de Thibet’ as an alias for Gong’s composing credits.
Years later, it manifested as a musical outfit in 1986 in Australia under the leadership of Daevid Allen and Russel Hibbs. This first band spent a traumatic six months in the studio recording the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet's eponymous album, before engaging on a tour.

Daevid Allen then left Australia to return to the UK in early 1988, encouraging Russell Hibbs to take the lead in the Australian band. They continued to tour sporadically and rehearse with an ever changing line-up, with increasing difficulties to keep the band together. They split in 1989, reformed briefly in 1992...