Nik Turner
Nik Turner ( born August 26, 1940 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England as Nicholas Turner) is an English musician (saxophone, flute, vocals) and songwriter. He was known primarily as a member of space rock band Hawkwind.
- 2.1 Solo albums and collaborations
- 2.2 As a guest musician
- 2.3 Various artists
Biography
Born in Oxford, drew Turner at the age of 13 years with his family to Margate in Kent. In summer jobs, he became friends with Robert Calvert. After completing his education he went for a short time for merchant navy. He then traveled through Europe, funded by doing odd jobs. In Haarlem he met Dave Brock know. In Berlin rave Turner for the free jazz. In the early 1960s he had saxophone and flute lessons and occasionally played in his brother's band, but only now he felt ready to play " in a rock band free jazz ".
1969-76 and 1982-84: Hawkwind
Brock founded in 1969 Hawkwind, and Turner, who owned a van, first worked as a roadie for the group. Because of his passion for the saxophone but he was included in the band soon. He brought more members to the group, including Calvert.
Turner wrote some of their best known songs, such as Brainstorm and Master of the Universe for Hawkwind. In 1976 he was, however, thrown by Brock from the band.
1982 Turner was invited by Brock to participate in the recording of the album Hawkwind Choose Your Masques and the subsequent tour. The renewed cooperation held two years before it came to kicking again.
1977-86: Sphynx and Inner City Unit
After the first departure of Hawkwind Turner received permission to make in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Cheops three hours flute recordings during a holiday in Egypt. Back in England, Steve Hillage revised the tapes. There was a group called Sphynx together to record an accompaniment to the flute recordings. The group included Alan Powell of Hawkwind, Mike Howlett and Tim Blake of Gong and Harry Williamson. Turner texts written by the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The result was published in 1978 as Xitintoday at Charisma Records. Sphynx played at major festivals, including the Deeply Vale Festival (recordings of which later appeared on CD) and the Glastonbury Festival ( partially taken up by the BBC and broadcast.) They also had their own festival "Bohemian Love-In " at the Roundhouse.
With Williamson and Sting Turner took the 1978 protest song on Nuclear Waste; the band was called "Radio Actors ". As a guest musician he supported the band "Mother Gong " during the recording of their album Fairy Tales ( 1979). With some of the musicians involved Turner founded the group Inner City Unit ( ICU), which brought out two albums in 1980 and 1981 Pass Out Maximum Effect, before Turner mitmachte again with Hawkwind. After his second departure from Hawkwind, he revived ICU again. It appeared in 1985 two more albums, New Anatomy and The President tapes, as well as the EP Blood and Bone.
1987 to today
This period is characterized by numerous projects with fellow musicians. So took Turner Twink with two albums, which appeared as a throwback to earlier jam sessions with Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies under the name "Pink Wind " and " HawkFairies " in 1995 and 1996. Turner also worked with bands such as " Anubian Lights", which released several albums. In addition, he also had their own projects such as " Nik Turner 's Fantastic All Stars ", whose sole album Kubanno Kickasso! 2001 came out. In the 1990s, Turner also produced several solo albums, including 1993, a new recording of Sphynx music of 1978.
On October 21, 2000 Hawkwind celebrated their 30th anniversary with the " Hawkestra " festival, which was attended also Turner. Exactly one year later, Turner organized a revival of "Greasy Tucker's Party" from 1972, had been involved in Hawkwind. As a result, Turner has performed with a band that he baptized xhawkwind.com. Then Dave Brock went successfully suing Turner steps to prohibit him the use of the name " Hawkwind ". The band then got the new name " Space Ritual ", which is still active today. Since 2008, Turner played several times with the group "Space Mirrors" together.
Discography
Nik Turner's recordings with Hawkwind see there.