Nucleus

die-cut gatefold cover EDITION

4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

The apex of British jazz-rock fusion so hot, that your speakers will simply melt and your brains will have fried much before that. Un-mistakably the best album of Nucleus but also in the top 5 of all fusion albums including Miles, Mahavishnu etc.... If Elastic Rock (their debut) had given the tone both musically but pictorially also with the incredible Roger Dean cut-out cover of magma/lava about to burst out in the open, it is clear that this album betters it by not one notch but three.

PERSONNEL:

• Ian Carr - (trumpet, flugelhorn)
• Brian Smith - (tenor & soprano saxophones, flute)
• Karl Jenkins - ( piano, Hohner Electra-Piano, oboe, baritone sax)
• Chris Spedding - (guitars, bouzouki, vocals)
• Jeff Clyne - (acoustic & electric bass)
• John Marshall - (drums, percussion)

Recorded September 21 and 22, 1970.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Song for the Bearded Lady
• A2. Sun Child
• A3. Lullaby for a Lonely Child
• A4. We'll Talk About It Later

• SIDE B
• B1. Oasis
• B2. Ballad of Joe Pimp
• B3. Easter 1916