Former Hawkwind saxophonist Nik Turner and Killing Joke bassist Youth have created jam album Interstellar Energy together. It’s released on February 12 via Youth Sounds, and the pair say it contains six tracks where “space rock meets motorik kosmische”.
The project has its roots in two live jams at the Glastonbury Festival – one in 2017 and one in 2019 – instigated by snooker icon and prog fan Steve Davis. “I first met Youth at a do for a record where we’d both done tracks,” Turner explains. “He asked me round to his house, then asked me to play along to a piece. I said, ‘What key is it in?’ We eventually found the key and off we went!”