The early reviews for this group were somewhat misdirected, discrediting their music as the German response to the sounds of Pink Floyd and Hawkwind space rock.
To a certain extent their music has some of those characteristics and although there are similar sounds at times, Nektar is a very original group that always looked for its own sound. At first his trend was heavy but his next two albums were two masterpieces of progressive rock. After "Remember" they went commercial, but again they released two albums that are a musical gem. His career lasted until 1980, catching 20 years later with the movement of "redinosaurization" to meet again and try to recover what they lost two decades ago.
It is known by many of us that 1973 was perhaps the year with the best progressive rock harvest and Nektar is one of the groups that participated in it.
"Remember the Future" is a two-movement concept album. In it, the story of a blue bird "BlueBird" is related, who after having visited a certain planet repeatedly and found that people could not accept him for what he was and was criticized for his appearance, established mental contact with a blind boy "Boy", to whom he told stories of the past and the future in the form of visions.
Musically, the album resembles, due to its spatial sound constructions, "Rockpommel's Land" by the also German Grobschnitt, although with more powerful and less melodic moments. There are even times that are too rhythmic that could have served for a dance session and these times are very well complemented throughout its musical structure. There are good brakes, good changes of intention and these are not very predictable. It goes without saying that due to its history, its great melodic symphonic concept, its time and its printed art, "Remember the Future" became one of the 100 best albums of progressive rock.
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