NUCLEUS - ELASTIC ROCK - VERTIGO 630 008 - SWIRL - NM/VG PROGRESSIVE

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NUCLEUS - ELASTIC ROCK - VERTIGO 630 008 - SWIRL

Stereo pressing. SWIRL LABEL! 

RECORD: NM Original U.K. swirl copy with 6360 008 1Y / 6360 003 2Y engraved in the dead wax. 

COVER: VG  Original U.K. gatefold copy. Stamp taped on the front jacket. Several marks and scuffs on the front and rear jacket. Light ring-wear in front, more evident on the rear. Corners a little bit worn. Spine and seams ok. NO Hole. NO stains. NO writings.

"If we take the jazz, we add the rock and dive around in a progressive environment, among many chimeric possible combinations emerge undoubtedly the Nucleus. A band relatively little known and amply rewarded under its real merits. Led by trumpeter Ian Carr, Scottish and herald of Miles Davis in Europe, the Nucleus stand as a sound laboratory of extraordinary technical expertise and valuable artistic inspiration. external theoretically to prog, they are placed to the right of certain members of the Canterbury school, on all Soft Machine, whose framework it will then be composed of some elements (Karl Jenkins, John Marshall and Allan Holdsworth) leaked from the orbit of Carr. Here we take care of their debut, ie the extraordinary Elastick Rock, 1970, which contains in a nutshell all the ideas, impulses and trends that will animate the Nucleus for more than fifteen years. It 'a puck past a little on the quiet, without major flare-ups or momentous compositions, but this should not mislead; we are facing a whole new experience to music, a union of jazz-rock with advanced instances that we can promptly enroll in the more experimental progressive and technically polished. Ian Carr surrounds himself with a Esemble of jazz musicians among the best of the British scene, among which undoubtedly the John Marshall drummer, keyboard player Karl Jenkins (one of the masterminds of the group) and imaginative guitarist Chris Sepdding, who embodies the soul rock; complete the formation bassist Jeff Clayne and saxophonist Brian Smith. The attempt of the record is clear from the first glance. First the elegant and understated cover reveals to us already what we are going: the magma that shines on the black splits, as the nucleus of a cell, and reproduces by budding constant and spontaneous. And then the title itself, "Elastic Rock," which speaks to us of a particular conception of music, seen as a seething magma which crystallizes from time to time in unique sound experiments yet indivisible, balanced and never dull, striking and surprising. Difficult to describe such a track for track work, since the compositions come together one inside the other as lava rivers giving rise to a constant current which gently pulls the listener and immerses it in a totally unexpected movement condition. Emblematic is the title track, calm instrumental digression supported by low soft rhythms and battery, graceful brass inlays and a guitar that embroiders with priceless class while Striation sees the entry of those who seem to arches and draws a climate subtly disturbing. Taranaki takes up the atmosphere and themes of Elastic Rock and serves as an introduction to the wonderful and amazing Twisted Track, which unfolds in a fabulous guitar arpeggio, sweet and hypnotic. Supported by a moderate but solid rhythm section, the piece has several solos by trumpet and sax that cross; gradually it grows and becomes more muscular towards the end, and the effect is an exotic contamination that speaks a new language between jazz and rock, definitely a masterpiece. Crude Blues is divided into two parts, the first is practically a poignant oboe solo that introduces to a nice jazz-rock song with guitar and brass working of joint and repartee, but this time the oboe draws lively figuration. There comes a poster of the group 1916 - Battle Of Boogaloo, powerful and determined with imperious deadlifts horn on guitar; an issue much more powerful and energetic, with the addition of original vocal inserts, will be recorded a few months later for the second group work, Well 'Talk About It Later, and will definitely become one of their most famous songs. Follows Torrid Zone, the composition of nine minutes crescendo constant that seems a culmination of what has been heard before: the rhythm is precise and punctuated, almost hypnotic, the horns first produced in isolated bursts and then unleashed in solos dream, always with ingenious Spedding guitar that works with absolute precision, and the remarkable work of imaginative Marshall. Earth Mother, merged with the previous experimental and disturbing Stonescape, opens with a rhythmic feature, and now sees the oboe prominently: Jerkins shows his class with a stunning and evocative solo. After a quick and stunning drum solo in which Marshall gives the best of himself, the album closes with Persephone's Jive, a piece from the atmosphere a bit 'less experimental, quick and impetuous, almost a divertissement. The first feature of the Nucleus is an album absolutely be rediscovered; their way "progressive" to see the jazz-rock creates a unique style, which will better body in his later works. The value of Elastick Rock, value that gradually in the other album will be less obvious is that this is an album that flows off smoothly but unstoppable as molten rock, it soaks and plunges us into a vortex size and iridescent, conquer us so quickly that it is almost impossible not to hear it from start to finish. Once the tools are dumb and the music will go out, everything around us will appear for a moment totally and hopelessly immobile."

(EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY HETZER/DEBASER /DEBASER.IT/)

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