nedjelja, 11.01.2009.
Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971)
Nektar's debut album became 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. ..Robert Hoffnung
Very good prog with some influences from space rockers like Pink Floyd, but other influences from the prog of say, King Crimson, Yes and maybe ELP, though not as dominated by keyboard virtuosity like ELP. The prominent Mellotron gives this album a great Crimson feel, though there is no sax. "Countenance" has some fantastic guitar work and haunting electric keyboard. "Warp Oversight" shows some resemblance to "Interstellar Overdrive" with it's interesting keyboard effects and fractured guitar. "The Dream Nebula (Pt. 1)" and it's second part on side two have some pretty ferocious guitar work at times and some more prog-like keyboard sections with vocals mixed in. "It's All in the Mind" is another fantastic track with great lyrics and layers of keyboard, bass, and guitar sound...Bob Hope
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 256 kB/s
Size ca.: 77 MB
Genre : Progressive Rock, Space Rock
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Tracklist:
01. Prelude 1:28
02. Astronauts Nightmare 6:30
03. Countenance 3:37
04. The Nine Lifeless Daughters of the Sun 2:58
05. Warp Oversight 4:13
06. The Dream Nebula (Part 1) 2:17
07. The Dream Nebula (Part 2) 2:30
08. It's All in the Mind 3:25
09. Burn Out Your Eyes 7:53
10. Void of Vision 2:06
11. Pupil of the Eye 2:50
12. Look Inside Yourself 0:57
13. Death of the Mind 1:50
