Rock On! Wednesday, 15 October 2025 – Nektar, Eloy, Ash Ra Tempel, Gracious & Curved Air

Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s – Dan’s pick of the week: Nektar (Remember the Future), Eloy (Dawn), Ash Ra Tempel (Ash Ra Tempel), Gracious (Gracious!) & Curved Air (Air Conditioning).

Nektar is een Britse progressieve rockband, opgericht in 1969 in Hamburg door een groep Engelse muzikanten die actief waren in de Duitse muziekscene. De band staat bekend om haar rijke, psychedelische sound, conceptuele albums en indrukwekkende lichtshows die perfect aansloten bij de kosmische sfeer van hun muziek.

Prog Archives review: “Remember the Future remains Nektar’s most popular and loved album, and that’s with good reason. First of all, it has probably the most accomplished and perfected Nektar-sound of all their albums.

Never before or after have Roye Albrigthon’s perfect vocal-harmonies and guitar-playing sounded better, more distinctive and…Nektar-like! And not at least, the whole album is made up of a wonderful, 40-minute suite without a dead or unnecessary second at all. The melodies, atmosphere, playing, arrangements, production and construction of the whole piece are just so goddamn…perfect!

Everyone who says that progressive rock is unstructured mess and instrumental self-indulgence should take a listen to this album. With the exception of the instrumental-part at the end of the first side, the whole piece is strongly based in carefully structured and well-written parts where the each member of the bands works wonderfully as integrated parts in the whole sound. The concept of the album is about a boy who speaks to a bird, and the whole story has a very optimistic and positive message. This album is just as essential in a progressive rock collection as “Close to the Edge”, “Selling England by the Pound”, “Brain Salad Surgery” and “Thick as a Brick”.”

Wednesday, 15 Ocotber 2025 12:00 noon CET Brussels – 11 a.m. GMT London. Repeated: 16:00 & 20:00 hrs CET Brussels, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. GMT London
Ends: 12 midnight CET Brussels, 11 p.m. GMT London.