Released March 1970 Artist Nucleus Producer Peter King Genre Jazz fusion | Length 40:46 Release date March 1970 Label Vertigo Records | |
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Recorded 12–21 January 1970 at Trident Studios, London Elastic Rock
(1970) We'll Talk About It Later
(1970) Jazz fusion albums Arbeit macht frei, Septober Energy, Bundles, Softs, Third | ||
Nucleus elastic rock 1970 full album
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.
Contents
In July 1970 the group presented compositions from the LP at the Montreux Jazz Festival, winning the first prize. They subsequently performed both at Newport Jazz Festival and at the Village Gate jazz club.
Nucleus elastic rock
Track listing
All tracks composed by Karl Jenkins; except where indicated
- "1916" - 1:11
- "Elastic Rock" - 4:05
- "Striation" - 2:15 (Jeff Clyne, Chris Spedding)
- "Taranaki" - 1:39 (Brian Smith)
- "Twisted Track" - 5:17 (Chris Spedding)
- "Crude Blues, Part I" - 0:54 (Karl Jenkins, Ian Carr)
- "Crude Blues, Part II" - 2:36 (Ian Carr)
- "1916: The Battle of Boogaloo" - 3:07
- "Torrid Zone" - 8:41
- "Stonescape" - 2:39
- "Earth Mother" - 5:15 (Karl Jenkins, Ian Carr, John Marshall, Jeff Clyne, Chris Spedding)
- "Speaking for Myself, Personally, in My Own Opinion, I Think..." - 0:54 (John Marshall)
- "Persephones Jive" - 2:15 (Ian Carr)
Personnel
Songs
119161:10
2Elastic Rock4:06
3Striation2:16