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Roye Albrighton: NEKTAR (Day in the life of a Preacher)

Roye Albrighton: NEKTAR (Day in the life of a Preacher)

NEKTAR (Day in the life of a Preacher)

NEKTAR (Man in the Moon)

juggernaut

January 2011 will see Nektar once again entering the studio for the recording of their new album “Juggernaut”

With the present lineup of Albrighton/Howden/Henatsch/Pichl this album is earmarked to be a milestone in the Nektar story. Roye commented “I really am excited about this album as it is the first time for a long time that we will have unrestricted use of a studio and more importantly, the ability to capture the late night jams that mean a lot in the structure of the bands music”

The last time the band were able to record in such an environment was during the making of “Evolution” but even there there were time limits and a budget to keep in mind.

Klaus added “Nektars music evolves around fifty percent written material and fifty percent on the spot spontaneity”

This new album will be a mixture of music ranging from spacey passages to mini epics, from all out jams to beautiful ballads..something for all.

If you like the unpredictability that is the Nektar brand of music, you will simply love this latest offering.

Available March/April 2011 in CD and download formats

11/25/2010

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends

child of mine at christmas

roye and che albrighton jamming out on astralman.mov

at the age of 16 I did have a goldtop Les Paul like now it was a plank then

1967 backstage at the Starclub Hamburg

In the Beginning

In those long ago but never forgotten times in Hamburg when I first bumped into Ron Howden, I knew we had something special going on when we started jamming in the daytime hours at the Star club.

I have always loved rhythmical music and I guess my style of playing guitar shows that. Together with Ron who is a very rhythmical drummer it was a match made in heaven, as the next years of album productions would show.

I was never big into guitar solos; in fact I tried to shy away from them as much as possible in favor of rhythmic playing. Give me an acoustic guitar any day.

With Ron and I truly locked into each others styles it really didn’t matter who else was in the band because as yet I had never met them, however, it was of great surprise that the bass and keys players were of a distinctive style of their own and it seemed to gell quite well.

TBC

Got there eventually

Well I was told to start a blog as it would help promote the band Nektar..so this is the start