Nucleus & Ian Carr Torrid Zone: The Vertigo Recordings 1970-1975

Esoteric Recordings release of a re-mastered 6xCD boxed set anthology featuring all the recordings released by Vertigo Records by the legendary jazz-rock group Nucleus and their founder Ian Carr. “Torrid Zone – The Vertigo Recordings 1970 – 1975” features every track from the highly celebrated albums “Elastic Rock”, “We’ll Talk About It Later”, “Solar Plexus”, “Belladonna”, “Labyrinth”, “Roots”, “Under The Sun”, “Snakehips Etcetera” & “Alleycat”, all newly re-mastered from the original Vertigo master tapes.

Disc: 1

1. 1916

2. Elastic Rock

3. StriatioN

4. Taranki

5. Twisted Track

6. Crude Blues (Part One)

7. Crude Blues (Part Two)

8. 1916 – The Battle Of Boogaloo

9. Torrid Zone

10. Stonescape

11. Earth Mother

12. Speaking For Myself, Personally, In My OwnOpinion, I Think…

13. Persephone’s Jive

14. Song For The Bearded Lady

15. Sun Child

16. Lullaby For A Lonely Child

17. We’ll Talk About It Later

Disc: 2

1. Oasis

2. Ballad Of Joe Pimp

3. Easter 1916

4. Elements I & Ii

5. Changing Times

6. Bedrock Deadlock

7. Spirit Level

8. Torso

9. Snakehips’ Dream

Disc: 3

1. Belladonna

2. Summer Rain

3. Remadione

4. May Day

5. Suspension

6. Hector’s House

7. Origins

8. Bull Dance

9. Ariadne

10. Arena

Disc: 4

1. Exultation

2. Naxos

3. Roots

4. Images

5. Caliban

6. Whapatiti

7. Capricorn

8. Odokamona

9. Southern Roots And Celebration

10. In Procession

11. The Addison Trip

12. Pastoral Graffiti

13. New Life

14. A Taste Of Sasparilla

Disc: 5

1. Theme 1 – Sasparilla

2. Theme 2 – Feast Alfresco

3. Theme 3 – Rites Of Man

4. Rat’s Bag

5. Alive And Kicking

6. Rachel’s Tune

7. Snakehips Etcetera

8. Pussyfoot

9. Heyday

Disc: 6

1. Phaideaux Corner

2. Alleycat

3. Splat

4. You Can’t Be Sure

5. Nosegay