Nucleus

• 180 GRAM VINYL

• Die-cut Gatefold Sleeve

• Limited Edition 500 COPIES

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.+

PERSONNEL:

• Chris Spedding - guitars
• Karl jenkins - piano, Hohner Electra piano, oboe, baritone sax
• Brian Smith - tenor & soprano saxes, flute
• Ian Carr - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Jeff Clyne - acoustic & electric bass
• John Marshall - drums, percussion

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. 1916
• A2. Elastic Rock
• A3. Striation
• A4. Taranaki
• A5. Twisted Track
• A6. Crude Blues (Part 1)
• A7. Crude Blues (Part 2)
• A8. 1916 - The Battle Of Boogaloo

• SIDE B
• B1. Torrid Zone
• B2. Stonescape
• B3. Earth Mother
• B4. Speaking For Myself, Personally, In My Own Opinion, I Think...
• B5. Persephones Jive