Flame Tree Featuring Nik Turner
Flame Tree Featuring Nik Turner
Review by Gary Hill
A couple of the musicians here should be quite familiar to regular readers of Music Street Journal. Of course, former Hawkwind member Nik Turner (saxophone and flute) has been covered a lot at MSJ. So has Dennis Rea (guitar). They are joined by Paul “PK” Kemmish (acoustic bass) and Jack Gold-Molina (drums). This music (except the closing song) is pretty crazed stuff. It will probably be of most interest to fans of the Rock In Opposition movement. It has a lot of that same freeform, chaotic element. This tends to mix jazz and space rock with psychedelia throughout. Although purely instrumental, somehow this (especially the drumming) reminds me just a bit of Green Milk from the Planet Orange. Those drums and the sax are the most consistently prominent things here. While I’m generally not a huge fan of the real freeform chaos kind of thing, this one works quite well to me.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2016 Volume 4 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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