Spaced Out
If the band Farout and its 1979 album Further Out were definitely not Far Out [previous post], Nic Turner,
founding member of Hawkwind, and his album Space
Fusion Odyssey of 2015 is without question the encapsulation of all that is
Out in the Farness of musical jazz fusion and space rock.
With his Interplanetary Arkestra of various members from
bands Gong, Amon Dull II and Soft Machine as well as individuals like Steve
Hillage, Billy Cobham and Robby Krieger, the spaced-out lineage is legendary.
Second and third tracks Hypernova
and Spiritual Machines feature
respectively Nick on saxophone and flute, the first played through faroutting
effects and the second more conventional within the fuzzing guitar and pounding
Cobham drums. All of the tracks are instrumental trajectories to familiar
if distant planets and solar systems, but the flights there are hypersleep-smooth
or electrifying when looking out of the portals at the passing psychedelic
patterns and spatial distortions.
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