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Nash the Slash — Children of the Night
(Cut-Throat CUT4CD, 1980/2000, CD)

by Jeff Melton, Published 2001-12-01

Crawling from the grave after twenty years hidden in limbo comes one of Steve Hillage's (ex-Gong) most memorable productions, Children of the Night, which features a bizarre set of covers and original recordings. For those of you uninitiated, Nash the Slash was a member of Canada's other 70s progressive power rock trio, FM. What is surprising to me with this set of ten original studio tracks and six bonus pieces is how current the sound recording still is. The opening track is a reading on one of Prokofiev's themes from "Peter and the Wolf" which fits in nicely to the arrangement of pulsing synth with electric violin carrying the melodic line. Nash can hardly be blamed for romping through covers of the Rolling Stones "19th Nervous Breakdown" and Deep Purple's re-titled "Dopes on the Water" as well as surf anthem, "Dead Man's Curve." The self-penned tracks include such dire pieces as "Glass Eye" with its minimalist sinister tone and "Swing-shift" with a prominent mechanically driven rhythm part. Additional live versions have been added to this CD release including a brutal reading of the album's title track where Nash's intense wall of synths is exacerbated by an electronics-laden lead mandolin. Children of the Night should be a welcome re-addition to fans of FM and current prog metal. And I love that inside photo of Richard Branson shaking Nash's severed hand.

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Filed under: Reissues, Issue 23, 2000 releases, 1980 recordings

Related artist(s): Nash the Slash (Jeff Plewman)

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