Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye

Artist:

Nektar

UPC:

4003090900720

See Also:

Family (UK) Gong Hawkwind Ash Ra Tempel Blue yster Cult

Description:

Personnel: Roye Albrighton (vocals, guitar); Allan Freeman (vocals, piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards); Derek Moore (vocals, Mellotron, bass guitar); Dieter Dierks (piano); Ron Howden (drums, percussion).
Recording information: 06/1971-08/1971.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Keith Walters; Mick Brockett.
Arranger: Nektar.
Nektar`s debut album was one of their finest releases, saturated with abstract psychedelia and a wonderful science-fiction motif that is magnified through the rigorous but dazzling Mellotron of Allan Freeman and Roye Albrighton`s nomadic guitar playing. Throughout Journey`s 13 cuts, Nektar introduced their own sort of instrumental surrealism that radiated from both the vocals and from the intermingling of the haphazard drum and string work. With the synthesizer churning and boiling in front of Howden`s percussive attack and Mick Brockett`s "liquid lights," tracks like "Astronaut`s Nightmare," "It`s All in the Mind," and both "Dream Nebula" cuts teeter back and forth from mind-numbing, laid-back melodies to excitable, open-ended excursions of fantastical progressive rock. Just as Hawkwind was exploring the depths of outer space with their progressive tendencies on most of their albums, Journey to the Centre of the Eye musically probed the inner universe of the mind and body with its very own conceptual field trip. "Burn Out My Eyes" and "Warp Oversight" are let loose with buzz-saw vocals and hazy, undefined guitar chords which converge and fade into background rhythms, while the 54 seconds of "Look Inside Yourself" is a short, illusory voyage that ends too soon. Nektar`s freewheeling sound is best felt on Journey and on their next three releases, as by the end of the decade, their progressive moods and ambient-like suites started to get harder and take on more of a mainstream feel. ~ Mike DeGagne

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Prelude
2. Astronauts Nightmare
3. Countenance
4. Nine Lifeless Daughters of the Sun, The
5. Warp Oversight
6. Dream Nebula, Pt. 1, The
7. Dream Nebula, Pt. 2, The
8. It`s All in the Mind
9. Burn Out My Eyes
10. Void of Vision
11. Pupil of the Eye
12. Look Inside Yourself
13. Death of the Mind

Album Information

Release Date:

08/10/1993

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Progressive Rock

Label:

Bellaphon Records (Germany)

Producer:

Dieter Dierks; Peter Haukenkektar; Nektar; Peter Hauke

Catalog Number:

28909007CD

Original Release Year:

1972

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

42 : 2

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