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Nucleus: We’ll Talk About It Later

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In March 1971, “Vertigo” label released “We’ll Talk About it Later”, the second Nucleus studio album. It was recorded in September 1970, and was produced by Pete King.

Personnel:

  • Ian Carr – trumpet, flugelhorn, inside gatefold picture
  • Karl Jenkins – baritone saxophone, oboe, piano, electric piano
  • Brian Smith – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Chris Speeding – guitar, bouzouki
  • Jeff Clyne – bass, bass guitar
  • John Marshall – drums, percussion
  • Roger Wake – engineer
  • Roger Dean – design

Track listing:

  1. Song for the Bearded Lady – Karl Jenkins
  2. Sun Child – Jeff Clyne, John Marshall
  3. Lullaby for a Lonely Child – Karl Jenkins
  4. We’ll Talk About It Later – Karl Jenkins
  5. Oasis – Karl Jenkins
  6. Ballad of Joe Pimp – Ian Carr, Jeff Clyne
  7. Easter 1916 – Ian Carr, Karl Jenkins

John Marshall

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On September 16, 2023, John Stanley Marshall died aged 82. He was musician (drums, percussion), member of Soft Machine, but was best known as founding member of Nucleus. He recorded and performed with various musician and bands including Arthur Brown, Allan Holdsworth, J.J. Jackson, Barney Kessel, Alexis Korner, Eberhard Weber, Arild Andersen, John Abercrombie, Charlie Mariano, John Surman, Graham Collier, Michael Gibbs, Keith Tippett, Centipede, Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin, Dick Morrissey, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Michael Garrick, Neil Ardley, Mike Westbrook, Georgie Game, Indo-Jazz Fusions, Bill Fay, Mike d’Abo, Chris Spedding, Top Topham, Chitinous Ensemble, Linda Hoyle, Spontaneous Music Orchestra, Volker Kriege, John Williams, Pork Pie, Jasper van’t Hof, Alan Skidmore, Gil Evans, Uli Beckerhoff, Towering Inferno, Wolfgang Mirbach, Theo Travis and Rot Powell.

The Alan Parsons Project: I Robot

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On June 1, 1977, “Arista” label released “I Robot”, the second Alan Parsons Project (The), studio album. It was recorded December 1976 – March 1977, at “Abbey Road Studios” in London, and was produced by Alan Parsons. The album cover photo features Storm Thorgerson’s assistants in the escalator tubes of the circular Terminal 1 building of the “Charles de Gaulle Airport” outside of Paris

Personnel:

  • Alan Parsons – keyboards, vocoder, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, engineer
  • Ian Bairnson – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
  • B.J. Cole – steel guitar
  • Eric Woolfson – keyboards, vocoder, backing vocals
  • Duncan Mackay – keyboards
  • John Leach – cimbalom, kantele
  • David Paton – bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Stuart Tosh – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker, Jaki Whitren, Dave Townsend, the English Chorale, the New Philharmonia Chorus – vocals
  • Hilary Western – backing vocals
  • Smokey Parsons – backing vocals
  • Tony Rivers, John Perry and Stu Calver – backing vocals
  • Andrew Powell – choir and orchestra arrangements
  • Eric Woolfson – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, except where noted.

  1. I Robot
  2. I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You
  3. Some Other Time
  4. Breakdown
  5. Don’t Let it Snow
  6. The Voice
  7. Nucleus
  8. Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)
  9. Total Eclipse – Andrew Powell
  10. Genesis Ch. 1V. 32

Anekdoten: Nucleus

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In December 1995, “Virtalevy” label released “Nucleus”, the second Anekdoten studio album. It was recorded July – November 1995, and was produced by Tommy Andersson,  Peter Nordins, Jan Erik Liljeström, Nicklas Berg and Anna Sofi Dahlberg.

Personnel:

  • Nicklas Berg– vocals, guitar, hand organ, clavinet, mellotron, Fender Rhodes
  • Tommy Andersson – Fender Rhodes
  • Anna Sofi Dahlberg – vocals, cello, mellotron
  • Jan Erik Liljeström – vocals, bass
  • Peter Nordins – percussion
  • Helena Källander – violin

Track listing:

  1. Nucleus
  2. Harvest
  3. Book of Hours a) Pendulum Swing / b) The Book
  4. Raft/Rubankh
  5. Here
  6. This Far from the Sky
  7. In Freedom

Allan Holdsworth

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On April 16, 2017, Allan Holdsworth died aged 70. He was guitarist and composer, known as big innovator in development of the guitar playing. He was one of the most influential guitarists of the 20th Century, cited as influence by many famous guitarists such as  Tom Morello, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Greg Howe, Shawn Lane, Richie Kotzen, John Petrucci, Alex Lifeson and Kurt Rosenwinkel. In his four decades long career he released twelve albums as solo artists, and has recorded and performed with many famous musicians and bands including Igginbottom, Nucleus, Tempest, Soft Machine, The New Tony Williams Lifetime,  Pierre Moerlen’s Gong,  Jean-Luc Ponty, Bruford, U.K., Stanley Clarke, Chad Wackerman, Level 42 and K². According to “Guitar World” magazine he is “as influential as Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen”.