Flame Tree featuring Nik Turner - Flame Tree

Hawkwind alumnus Nik Turner (sax and flute) has collaborated with experimental Jazz/Fusion ensemble Flame Tree in recording their eponymous album, an obvious cross between his own spaced out heavily psychedelic style and his collaborators also jazzy pedigree… the match of the two seems to have been made in heaven or some bizarre odd meter hell, with everything being mind-bogglingly complex, the drums sounding quite out of sync with whatever else is going on and a general feel of freaking out over the almost hour long psych efforts, manifesting itself almost instantaneously…
 
A trying listen, way more eccentric and eclectic than NT’s usual fare that could have even throw his own fans into contemplation and doubt, had the later songs on the album not been a bit smoother and easy to follow (not to mention, less percussive as well).