Oldish Psych and Prog

Style: jazz rock
Country: uk
Audio: lossless (ape 768k)
Size: 341mb
misc.: this is compilation of earlier material (read tray)!

from Tapestry of Delights:

Nucleus first attracted attention by winning first prize at the Montreux International Festival in 1970 for their improvised and integrated music which was an amalgam of jazz and rock. They were originally formed in 1969 by trumpeter Ian Carr. He was joined by ex-Battered Ornaments guitarist Chris Spedding and Karl Jenkins and John Marshall (who both went on to Soft Machine) on the first three albums. Elastic Rock was their most successful, actually climbing to No 46 in the Album Charts. Their third album, Solar Plexus, was spacier than the two which preceded it and is particularly recommended. In 1972 Jenkins and Marshall both departed to join Soft Machine.

Belladonna was essentially an Ian Carr solo album, although he did enlist the services of guitarist Allan Holdsworth. Produced by Jon Hiseman (of Colosseum fame) it is Carr's most sought-after work for Vertigo. Of the later albums Snakes Hips Etcetera is well regarded. They eventually split up in the early eighties.

Nucleus are still considered to be one of Britain's top jazz-rock bands.

 

see also:

1970 ~ Elastic Rock + 1971 ~ Well Talk About It Later

1971 ~ Solar Plexus + 1972 ~ Belladonna
 

 

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