{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Gazeuse! | type = studio | artist = Gong{{efn|This incarnation of the band was later named Pierre Moerlen's Gong}} | cover = Gong - Gazeuse!.jpg | alt = | released = Late 1976 | recorded = September 1976<br />The Manor Studio | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz rock<ref name=allmusic/><ref name= "Moon 2008">{{cite book|first=Tom|last=Moon|title=1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die|chapter= Gong - ''Gazeuse!''|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zk0Z0bD2DGcC|date=28 August 2008|publisher=Workman Publishing Company|isbn=9-780761-139638|page=316}}</ref> | length = 39:46 | label = Virgin | producer = Dennis MacKay | chronology = Gong | prev_title = Shamal | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = Gong Live Etc. | next_year = 1977 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r39144 |title=Gazeuse! - Gong | AllMusic |first=David |last=Ross Smith |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |accessdate=24 June 2011}}</ref>
}} '''''Gazeuse!''''' (French for 'Sparkling!', 'Fizzy!' or 'Effervescent!') is the seventh album released under the name Gong and the ''de facto'' debut album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong. It was released in late 1976. The title was changed to ''Expresso'' for the U.S. release.
The album features an all-instrumental jazz-driven sound,<ref name=allmusic/> notable for the prominent use of vibraphone. Although the album was issued by Virgin Records under the "Gong" name for contractual reasons, and the name "Pierre Moerlen's Gong" would not be adopted for a couple of years, the lineup involved and the nature of the music are that of the Moerlen-led band.
Writing credits are split between Moerlen and guitarist Allan Holdsworth, except for the final track, which is by early Magma and ''Flying Teapot'' bassist Francis Moze.
The cover art is done by Jacques Moitoret.
==Track listing== ;Side one #"Expresso" (Pierre Moerlen) – 5:58 #"Night Illusion" (Allan Holdsworth) – 3:42 #"Percolations (Part I & II)" (Moerlen) – 10:00 ;Side two <ol start=4> <li>"Shadows Of" (Holdsworth) – 7:48 <li>"Esnuria" (Moerlen) – 8:00 <li>"Mireille" (Francis Moze) – 4:10 </ol>
"Shadows Of" is a reworking of Allan Holdsworth's "Velvet Darkness" from his 1976 album of the same name.
==Personnel== *Pierre Moerlen – drums, vibraphone, marimba, timpani, glockenspiel *Didier Malherbe – tenor sax (1,5), flute (4) *Allan Holdsworth – guitars, violin, pedal steel *Mireille Bauer – vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, toms *Benoît Moerlen – vibraphone *Francis Moze – fretless bass, gong, piano *Mino Cinelu – percussion
==Production== *Produced by Dennis MacKay *Engineered by Stephen W Tayler<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.innerviews.org/inner/stephen-w-tayler|title=Innerviews: Stephen W Tayler - Experiential Evocation|access-date=13 December 2025}}</ref>
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==References== {{Reflist}}
*Macan, E. L., Macan, E. (1997). Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. Germany: Oxford University Press. p. 243
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