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Features Disc of the day
Nucleus
Elastic Rock
(Vertigo, 1970)
Jazz heads flirt with rock, and unleash The Battle Of The Boogaloo!
“We don’t recognise rigid boundaries, but try to use our total musical experience, whatever it might be,” proclaimed the band on the album’s sleeve notes, laying down their libertarian principles. Led by one of Britain’s most inspired jazz men - trumpeter, author and educationist Ian Carr – Nucleus recorded this 13-track debut a few months after the release of Miles’s Bitches Brew and strove for the same kind of musical freedom. Wrapped in an elaborate Roger Dean sleeve (a die-cut affair revealing lava beneath) and featuring Chris Spedding on guitar, Elastic Rock effortlessly translates jazz dynamics into a groove-heavy rock context, most notably on tracks like the Cream-inspired 1916 The Battle Of The Boogaloo, Cropper-esque strut of Crude Blues Part Two and the mutant funk of Torrid Zone. Co-leader Karl Jenkins (baritone sax/keyboards) and John Marshall (drums) would later join Soft Machine and continue that band’s evolution into even more complex jazz-rock, but on this landmark offering Nucleus managed to create an album whose punchy accessibility is as much of a feature as its ambient intricacies. Close to four decades on it remains as expansive as its title suggests.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 30/01/2008
Further Listening
Frank Zappa – Hot Rats (Bizarre, 1969)
Nucleus – We’ll Talk About It Later (Vertigo, 1971)
Soft Machine – Six (Columbia, 1973)
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