NUCLEUS:ELASTIC ROCK. 1970 U.K. ORIG LP. VERTIGO SWIRL.
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Nucleus were a pioneering jazz-rock band from Britain who continued in different forms from 1969 to 1989. In their first year they won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released the album Elastic Rock, and performed both at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club. They were led by Ian Carr, who had been in the Rendell-Carr Quintet during the mid and late 1960s, and was a respected figure in British jazz for more than forty years. Their jazz-based music evolved from an early sound incorporating elements of progressive and psychedelic rock toward combination with a funkier sound in the mid and late 1970s.
Elastic Rock is Nucleus' first album. Recorded in January 1970, it was a pioneering work in emerging genre of jazz-rock fusion. Bandleader Ian Carr (later a jazz journalist and published expert on Miles Davis) was probably inspired by Davis' "going electric" in 1969, but the seminal Bitches Brew had not yet been released at the time Elastic Rock was recorded, and according to Carr, they hadn't even heard Davis' less rock-influenced 1969 electric release, In a Silent Way. In July 1970 the group presented compositions from the LP at the Montreux Jazz Festival, winning the first prize. They subsequently performed both at Newport Jazz Festival and at the Village Gate jazz club.
This is an original 1970 U.K. pressing on the Vertigo "Swirl" label, Cat No: 6360 008, in a die-cut gatefold sleeve.
GRADING.
SLEEVE:
THE GATEFOLD SLEEVE IS GENERALLY IN VERY GOOD CONDITION FOR IT'S AGE. THERE IS A STICKER REMOVAL MARK ON FRONT COVER. SHOWING WEAR AROUND ALL THE SEAMS BUT NO SPLITTING AND INTACT. THE SPINE IS STILL READABLE.
THE COMPANY INNER SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
RECORD:
THE VINYL HAS OBVIOUSLY BEEN PLAYED BUT WELL LOOKED AFTER AND IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. A FEW VERY LIGHT SURFACE MARKS ARE VISIBLE BUT DO NOT AFFECT PLAY. AGAIN VERY GOOD FOR IT'S AGE.
THE LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, NO WRITING, NO MARKS, AND LITTLE IN THE WAY OF SPINDLE WEAR.
MATRIX NUMBERS: SIDE 1: 6360008 1Y2 420 1. SIDE 2 : 6360008 2Y1 420 1.
SEE PHOTOGRAPHS.
TRACK LISTING:
1. 1916 (1:11)
2. Elastic Rock (4:05)
3. Striation (2:15)
4. Taranaki (1:39)
5. Twisted Track (5:15)
6. Crude Blues, Pt. 1 (0:54)
7. Crude Blues, Pt. 2 (2:36)
8. 1916- The Battle of Boogaloo (3:04)
9. Torrid Zone (8:40)
10. Stonescape (2:39)
11. Earth Mother (0:51)
12. Speaking for Myself, Personally, in My Own (0:54)
13. Persephones Jive (2:15)
Total Time: 36:18
VERTIGO RECORDS. 6360 008. 1970.
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