Journey To The Centre Of The Eye - NEKTAR***

Prelude/Astronaut's Nightmare/Countenance/The Nine Lifeless Daughters Of The Sun/Warp Oversight/ The Dream Nebula Part 1/The Dream Nebula Part 2/Its All In The Mind/Burn Out My Eyes/Void Of Vision/Pupil Of The Eye/Look Inside Yourself/Death Of The Mind

Debut album from the British progressive band Nektar who were based in Germany. Journey To The Centre Of The Eye consists of a long psychedelic jam with spacey guitar and keyboard effects.

“The album has all the wailing guitars, spooky synths and shimmering percussion you'd expect from early Floyd, but with a conceptual structure that's tighter and more coherent.”

“It has a few moments of light at the beginning, but as it drags on it eventually blends into one really long psychedelic jam that never seems to end.”

“Journey To The Centre Of The Eye just epitomizes the space-rock sub-genre more than anything else I've ever heard. The spacey guitar and keyboard effects, the soundscapes, the acceleration and deceleration of the music, the lyrics and the concept - it's all there.”

“This amazing record embodies a whole wave of sci-fi, psych-prog, space-head, soul-searching, future-yearning, world weariness that enchanted a significant segment of the vanguard rock world for a few years.”

“Pounding Hammond organ, trippy effects, weaving guitar lines mixing together with other instruments and the majestic Mellotron. Space rock and of course a larger-than-life concept. These are the common tags one can apply to this release by the nearly unknown British psychedelic/prog rock band working in Germany.”

“Nektar are often thrown in with the Krautrock bunch, even though in reality they were a British band, but residing in Germany. Journey To The Centre Of The Eye was their debut and the only weak spot is the rather flat production, but the musical quality more than makes up for the shortcoming. This album is a collection of songs all segued in to one another, intended to be listened to as a whole. This tended to the more psychedelic end of the prog rock spectrum.”

“Every single moment is devoted to a spiritual atmosphere, a magical journey. The vocals are incredibly melodic, beautiful and touching; there is a wonderful sense of instrumental skills that always keeps a creative flow, resulting in an all around near perfect album.”