Potemkine Nicolas II (1978) ( Full Album) Psych, Prog, Space Rock, Fusion, Zeuhl

This was POTEMKINE s last album and like ZAO (who went from Zeuhl to Jazz, Rock) there s not really any Zeuhl left in their sound. As a matter of fact this sounded to me like a straight up Fusion record for the most part. Very well done of course. This is also their only release without vocal melodies on it. Potemkine s third and final album is their strongest, and is something of an overlooked classic of late 70s prog. Following Triton the band became a quartet again with Michel Goubin back on keyboards, and there had also been a period of intense gigging including opening for Magma on several occasions. All this made for a much tighter and more confident band than previously, both in terms of writing and playing. The sound of Nicholas II takes the Zeuhl of Magma s Attahk and adds the jazz fusion of Mahavishnu Orchestra, Brand X and Billy Cobham circa Spectrum. The arrangements are dominated by the interplay of electric piano and guitar, with Charles Goubin turning in some excellen