You is an album by psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 band Gong

Gong (band)

Gong is a Franco-British progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Francis Moze, Mike Howlett...

, recorded and originally released in 1974.
Recorded at The Manor, Oxfordshire, side 1 was mixed at Pye Studios, Marble Arch, while side 2 at the Manor

The Manor Studio

The Manor Studio was a recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford. It was the first residential recording studio in the UK...

. Produced by Simon Heyworth and Gong "under the universal influence of C.O.I.T., the Compagnie d'Opera Invisible de Thibet", and engineered by Simon Heyworth.

"You" is the third of the "Radio Gnome Trilogy" of albums, following Flying Teapot

Flying Teapot (album)

Flying Teapot is an album by Gong, originally released by Virgin in 1973. A later edition was issued by BYG in France and Japan in 1976. Co-titled "Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1", it is the first of the Radio Gnome Trilogy of albums, and was followed by Angel's Egg and You...

 and Angel's Egg

Angel's Egg (album)

Angel's Egg is an album by Gong, recorded and originally released on Virgin Records in 1973.It was recorded using the Manor Mobile at Pavillon du Hay, France, and mixed at The Manor, Oxfordshire, England...

. The Trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology.
The structure of the album is based on long drawn out instrumentals (such as Master Builder, A Sprinkling of Clouds and Isle of Everywhere) interspersed with short narrative pieces.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Gong

Side 1:

1. "Thoughts for Naught" - 1:32 (given as 'Thought for Naught' on original LP sleeve)
2. "A P.H.P.'s Advice" - 1:47
3. "Magick Mother Invocation" - 2:06
4. "Master Builder" - 6:07
5. "A Sprinkling of Clouds" - 8:55

Side 2:

1. "Perfect Mystery" - 2:29 (given as on original LP sleeve)
2. "The Isle of Everywhere" - 10:20
3. "You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever" - 11:22

Personnel

• Mike Howlett
  Mike Howlett
  Mike Howlett is a Fijian-born musician, Grammy Award winning producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia....
  
   - bass guitar
• Pierre Moerlen
  Pierre Moerlen
  Pierre Moerlen was a French drummer and percussionist, best known for his work with Gong and Mike Oldfield.-Biography:...
  
   - drums, percussion
• Mireille Bauer
  Mireille Bauer
  Mireille Bauer is a French percussionist and former member of Gong.Through her then boyfriend Pierre Moerlen, she first worked with Gong in a session capacity on Angel's Egg and You before joining the band fully for albums including Expresso II...
  
   - percussion
• Benoit Moerlen
  Benoît Moerlen
  Benoît Moerlen is a French percussionist, best known for his work in Gong, Pierre Moerlen's Gong and a later off-shoot Gongzilla.-History:...
  
   - percussion
• Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
  
   - lead guitar
• Didier Malherbe
  Didier Malherbe
  Didier Antonin Malherbe is a saxophonist and flautist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury sound band Gong....
  
   ("Bloomdido Glad de Brasse") - wind instruments and vocals
• Tim Blake
  Tim Blake
  Timothy 'Tim' Blake , keyboards, vocalist instrumentalist and composer with both Gong, and Hawkwind. Blake is best known for his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Patrice Warrener...
  
   ("Hi T Moonweed") - Moog and EMS systhesisers and Mellowdrone
• Daevid Allen
  Daevid Allen
  Daevid Allen , sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong .-Biography:In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered...
  
   ("Dingo Virgin") - vocal locust and Glissandoz guitar
• Gilli Smyth
  Gilli Smyth
  Gilli Smyth is a musician who performed with the bands Gong, Mother Gong and Planet Gong as well as several solo albums and albums in collaborations other members of Gong...
  
   ("Shakti Yoni") - poems and space whisper
• Miquette Giraudy
  Miquette Giraudy
  Miquette Giraudy is a keyboard player and vocalist, best known for her work in Gong and with her partner Steve Hillage. She and Hillage currently form the core of the ambient band System 7.-Film:...
  
  ("Bambaloni Yoni") - wee voices and Chourousings

Also credited: "Venux De Luxe" (Francis Linon) Switch Doctor and stage sound, Wizz De Kidd (lighting) and David ID (road management).