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El espectro según el yo

Fabio Golfetti was born in São Paulo in 1960. He grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Gong, Led
Zeppelin, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones (with their 1967 album Their Satanic
Majesties Request being one of his favorite releases by them), and as a teenager he learned
how to play both the classical and the electric guitar, quoting Daevid Allen, Syd Barrett, Terje
Rypdal and Manuel Göttsching as some of his major influences.[2] In 1978 he founded Lux,
his first band. Lux later became Ultimato in 1981, an instrumental punk jazz/no wave band
with the arrival of drummer Cláudio Souza, and later came to be named Zero in 1983, with
the entrance of vocalist Guilherme Isnard (Voluntários da Pátria). With Zero, he took part in
the recording of the single "Heróis".[3]

In 1985, Golfetti and Souza left Zero and formed alongside Angelo Pastorello the influential
psychedelic rock band Violeta de Outono. As of 2016 Violeta de Outono has released 7
studio albums, 2 EPs, 4 videos and 2 live albums.

In 1988 he formed a side project to Violeta de Outono, called The Invisible Opera Company
(Tropical Version Brazil); heavily inspired by the aesthetics of Daevid Allen, it has released
four albums as of yet.[4]

In 2006 he appeared at the Gong Unconvention 2006 in Amsterdam with The Glissando
Guitar Orchestræ. The Seven Drones (At Gong Uncon '06), a live album recording his
performance at the event, was released in 2008.

Golfetti is a full-time member of Gong since 2012; he previously toured with them in 2007,
during a brief series of concerts in São Paulo, as a member of their "Gong Global Family"
project. A live album of the concert was released in 2009. I See You, Gong's first studio
album with him as an official member of the band, was released on November 10, 2014.[5]

Tomorrow Never Knows" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily
by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.[5] It was released in August 1966 as
the final track on their album Revolver, although it was the first song recorded for the LP.
The song marked a radical departure for the Beatles, as the band fully embraced the
potential of the recording studio without consideration for reproducing the results in concert.

When writing the song, Lennon drew inspiration from his experiences with the hallucinogenic
drug LSD and from the book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan
Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner. The Beatles'
recording employed musical elements foreign to pop music, including musique concrète,
avant-garde composition and electro-acoustic sound manipulation.[6] It features an Indian-
inspired modal backing of tambura and sitar drone and bass guitar, with minimal harmonic
deviation from a single chord, underpinned by a constant but non-standard drum pattern;
added to this, tape loops prepared by the band were overdubbed "live" onto the rhythm
track. Part of Lennon's vocal was fed through a Leslie speaker cabinet, normally used for a
Hammond organ. The song's backwards guitar parts and effects marked the first use of
reversed sounds in a pop recording, although the Beatles' 1966 B-side "Rain", which they
recorded soon afterwards using the same technique, was issued over three months before
Revolver.
John Lennon wrote "Tomorrow Never Knows" in January 1966, with lyrics adapted from
the book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner, which was in turn adapted from the
Tibetan Book of the Dead.[7] Although Beatles aide Peter Brown believed that Lennon's
source for the lyrics was the Tibetan Book of the Dead itself, which, he said, Lennon had
read while under the influence of LSD,[8] George Harrison later stated that the idea for the
lyrics came from Leary, Alpert and Metzner's book.[9] Paul McCartney confirmed this,
stating that when he and Lennon visited the newly opened Indica bookshop, Lennon had
been looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche and found a copy of The Psychedelic
Experience that contained the lines: "Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float
downstream."[10]

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