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| NUKLI were a festival band in the style of OZRIC TENTACLES but were
vastly overlooked as they never released any album until after their
break-up. They sprang out of a space-punk outfit formed in the early
80's by an eccentric London guitarist, a psychedelic visionary known as
"PSi Steve". Like many of their peers, they became known mainly by word
of mouth and through casettes they sold at gigs. At various festivals,
they performed long improvised electronic psychedelic music that
incorporated many influences ranging from space rock to raggae, drawing
on the sense of freedom and creativity that made the festival scene so
vibrant and refreshing. They went through several personnel changes,
kicked around a lot, even supported OZRIC TENTACLES at the Rock Garden
in 1989. |
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| By the early 90's, however, the English Criminal
Justice Bill had all but destroyed free festivals, leaving bands like
NUKLI no place to rehearse or record. When their keyboard player had his
entire equipment robbed twice, he decided to quit and emigrated to
Canada; the band thus simply called it a day. |
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Their sole album consists of archival material retrieved
from 8-track tapes. After much coming and going between the UK and
Canada for the keyboard player's input, the tapes were remastered by
Delirium Records and a CD released under the title "The Time Factory" in
1997. The album consists of mind-melting funkadelic space prog with
influences from HAWKWIND, GONG, Steve HILLAGE and early PORCUPINE TREE,
with lots of trippy effects, sound gimmicks and good jamming. Take away
HAWKWIND's heavy-metal overtones, add some FLOYDian influences, a little
less Middle-Eastern flavour than OZRIC's plus a vocalist, and you'll get
an idea of what NUKLI sound like. The production, gimmicks and vocals
are not all perfect but the album is definitely worth checking out if
you're into the festival/jam band scene.
Recommended to fans of MAGIC MUSHROOM BAND, HERE AND NOW, OROONIES,
ULLULATORS, WEBCORE, MANDRAGORA and of course, OZRIC TENTACLES. |
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