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Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) {1987, Reissue}

Posted By: popsakov
Date: 21 Aug 2022 23:33:42
Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) {1987, Reissue}

Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) {1987, Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 260 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 113 Mb
Full Scans | 00:42:02 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock | Bacillus Records / Bellaphon #289-09-007

Journey to the Centre of the Eye is the debut album from English progressive rock band Nektar that came out in November 1971. Though formally divided into 13 tracks, the entire album consists of a single continuous piece of music, with some musical themes which are repeated throughout the work. Because of its narrative nature, it has been called a rock opera and/or dense concept album. The story follows an astronaut who, while on a voyage to Saturn, encounters aliens who take him to their galaxy, where he is suffused with knowledge and wisdom. It is usually interpreted as a commentary on the nuclear arms race.

Nektar's debut album was 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.

~ Mike DeGagne, All Music
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Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) {1987, Reissue}

Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) {1987, Reissue}

Track List:

01. Prelude [1:25]
02. Astronauts Nightmare [6:27]
03. Countenance [3:34]
04. The Nine Lifeless Daughters Of The Sun [2:55]
05. Warp Oversight [4:10]
06. The Dream Nebula Part 1 [2:16]
07. The Dream Nebula Part 2 [2:27]
08. It's All In The Mind [3:22]
09. Burn Out My Eyes [7:50]
10. Void Of Vision [2:02]
11. Pupil Of The Eye [2:47]
12. Look Inside Yourself [0:54]
13. Death Of The Mind [1:55]

Personnel:
Roye Albrighton - guitars, vocals
Mick Brockett - liquid lights
Allan "Taff" Freeman - Mellotron, pianos, organ, vocals
Ron Howden - drums, percussion
Derek "Mo" Moore - Mellotron, bass, vocals
Keith Walters - static slides

Additional personnel:
Dieter Dierks - additional piano

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 9. August 2019, 19:39

Nektar / Journey To The Centre Of The Eye

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Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) {1987, Reissue}


See also:

Nektar - Remember The Future (1973) {1987, Germany 1st Press}

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