A master of almost any blown reeeds, Malherbe served his time in the jazz bars of Paris in the early 60s listening to the emigre American maestros, before decamping for inner-spacial expansion to Deya in Majorca. Here he met up with Australian surrealist poet and ex-Soft MAchine guitarist Daevid Allen, forming a working association through the band Gong, that continues to this day(2006). After serving almost a decade with the varying incarnations of this band Read more on Last.fm