Nik Turner

Among the founding users of Hawkwind, saxophonist/flutist Nik Turner has already established possibly the most prolific and varied outdoors career of all group’s many alumni. Turner was raised in Margate, Kent, Britain, with potential Hawkwind bandmate Robert Calvert, and found Hawkwind’s initial 1969 lineup from a music group called Mobile phone Freakout. Turner was a fundamental element of the band’s perfect period, contributing not merely sax and flute function but additionally vocals and periodic songwriting (like the music group staple “Brainstorm,” which made an appearance on 1972’s Doremi Fasol Latido, as well as the traditional “Sterling silver Machine,” which he co-wrote with Dave Brock). Turner’s last recording with Hawkwind was 1976’s Astounding Seems, Amazing Music, and group innovator Brock fired the majority of his staff (including Turner). Turner utilized his newfound independence to go to Egypt, where he assimilated the annals and culture, and in addition made a saving of his flute music within the King’s Chamber of the fantastic Pyramid of Cheops. With support from several music artists connected with Gong, the outcomes had been released in 1978 as Turner’s single debut Xitintoday (acknowledged to Nik Turner’s Sphynx). Turner following played within the 1979 Mom Gong recording Fairy Stories, and going up a fresh group known as the Internal City Device, which also presented guitarist Trevor Thomas, bassist Baz Magneto (quickly replaced by Deceased Fred Reeves), and drummer Mick Stupp. The group’s debut record, DISTRIBUTE, was released in 1980, exhibiting an odd mixture of affects that ranged from prog rock and roll to punk and big-band golf swing. Turner rejoined Hawkwind in 1981, but originally continuing to record using the Internal City Device, which released THE UTMOST Impact in 1981 and Punkadelic the next year. Also showing up in 1982 was Ersatz, an ICU cooperation with Turner’s boyhood friend and Hawkwind partner Robert Calvert. Turner departed Hawkwind once more in 1984, restarting the Internal City Device and launching New Anatomy. In 1985, Turner relocated towards the traditional western aspect of Wales, where he create a new age group community in a reasonably rural, isolated region. The ICU released The Presidents Tapes that same calendar year, which would end up being Turner’s last record using the group; he still left in 1986 to focus on a smaller-scale task known as the Nik Turner All-Stars, who had taken the big-band golf swing predilections from the ICU into fairly straightforward place. The group hardly ever recorded, staying a largely regional and concert-oriented clothing. In the first ’90s, Turner transferred to California, where he started working with intensifying, industrial-influenced performers like Helios Creed and Pressurehed. He also resumed his single recording career, you start with 1993’s Sphynx, a belated sequel towards the Egyptian-themed Xitintoday. Released in 1994, Prophets of your time involved previous Hawkwind associates Simon Home and Del Dettmar, with whom Turner works often over the remaining decade, sometimes within the spacy Anubian Lighting (which also included associates of Pressurehed, and debuted on record in 1995). Also in 1994, Turner come up with a new support music group known as Space Ritual which was mostly specialized in executing Hawkwind repertoire. The group toured in 1994 and 1995, launching live recordings culled from every year (Space Ritual and Former or Upcoming?, respectively). Turner continued to be energetic well into towards the 2010s, often collaborating with several Swedish prog rock and roll rings, including Darxtar as well as the Moor, and liberating a small number of single albums, including 2013’s well-received Space Gypsy, which he released via Cleopatra.