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Nektar is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Climax Blues Band, P. P. Arnold, Procol Harum and Gentle Giant. Those roots explain a lot about how Nektar arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Eloy, Camel, Hatfield and the North, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Wishbone Ash, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Joy Division, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 20 connections around Nektar, reaching back through Climax Blues Band and forward to Joy Division. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Nektar grew out of Climax Blues Band, P. P. Arnold, Procol Harum and Gentle Giant, shares an orbit with Eloy, Camel, Hatfield and the North and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, went on to shape Joy Division. 20 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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