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1. PHAIDEAUX CORNER
2. ALLEYCAT
3. SPLAT
4. YOU CAN'T BE SURE
5. NOSEGAY |
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Come for the leopard, stay for the stone cold jams. Yet another thrilling,
funky-prog jazzy-rock fusion beauty from Ian Carr??s Nucleus. Originally released
on Vertigo in 1975, Alleycat was never re-pressed so those original copies are
now very tricky to score. Like all the Nucleus records, it??s aged ridiculously
well and this Be With re-issue, re-mastered from the original analogue tapes,
shows off just why this deserves to be back in press.
Genius trumpeter and visionary composer Ian Carr was one of the most respected
British musicians of his era. He was a true pioneer and saw the potential in
fusing the worlds of jazz with rock, just as Miles Davis and The Tony Williams
Lifetime did in the US. In late 1969, following the demise of the Rendell-Carr
quintet, and tiring of British jazz, Carr assembled the legendary Nucleus.
Regarding music as a continuous process, Nucleus refused to ??recognise rigid
boundaries? and worked on delivering what they saw as a ??total musical
experience?. We can get behind that.
Under bandleader Carr, Nucleus existed as a fluid line-up of inventive, skilled
musicians. This constant evolution and revolution was all part of the continuous
musical exploration and discovery that took jazz to new levels. And the music
has stayed relevant. To steal a line from a recent review of our re-issue of
Roots, when it comes to anything Nucleus ??it??s basically already hip-hop?.
Alleycat was the last Nucleus album recorded for the Vertigo label. Released in
1975, it was again meticulously produced by Jon Hiseman and is every bit as
sinuous as anything else the group had recorded. As far as riff-laden accidental
cop-funk goes, there??s so much energy coursing through the music that at times
it sounds like a live recording. It??s pretty unbeatable.
Uptempo opener ??Phaideaux Corner? is a funk-flavoured opus with a groove that
simply swaggers. This trademark Roger Sutton piece benefits from Trevor
Tomkins??s percussive expertise and some excellent sax and keyboard soloing.
Check out Geoff Castle on squelchy, stabbing Moog duties. Ian Carr??s elegantly
laidback title track is a lengthy suite of magisterial themes. Typically
complex, it still gets you hooked and is just riddled with the funk. Carr builds
up his initially ??straight? trumpet solo with later use of echo to mesmeric
effect. And there??s some excellent wah-wah guitar shredding by Ken Shaw too.
Nice.
The second side opens with the killer ??Splat? and finds Nucleus really ripping
it up. A fat, funky bass guitar riff introduces us to the track and stays with
us until the end. The often mangled bass groove is pushed along by rattling
drums and percussion, dropping out for some restful moments of spacey calm, and
along the way picking up some lengthy keyboard noodling by Castle. So so good.
The cool ??You Can??t Be Sure? is a gentle jam with Shaw on 12-string acoustic
guitar, together with Carr??s muted trumpet and some marvellous fretless work
from Sutton for extra colour. The album closes with Bob Bertles?? galloping
??Nosegay?, written perhaps as a response to some of the faster Mahavishnu
Orchestra pieces. It??s an example of well crafted jazz-rock that doesn??t
compromise any of its jazziness, yet it still very definitely rocks.
This Be With re-issue of Alleycat has been re-mastered from the original Vertigo
master tapes, Simon Francis?? mastering working together with Pete Norman??s cut
to weave their usual magic with these wonderful recordings. The cool AF cover -
that leopard was just a cat before he heard Nucleus, you know - has been
restored as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue - Vinyl LP pressing. 1975 album from the British jazz-fusion band. | | | Edition: |
Remastered |
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BEWITH105LP |
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