''First Underground Nuclear Kitchen'' is a studio album by former Deep Purple,

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and

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vocalist/bassist

Glenn Hughes Glenn Hughes or Glen Hughes may refer to: *Glenn Hughes (musician), born 1951 *Glenn Hughes (American singer) (1950–2001) *Glenn Hughes (cricketer), born 1959 *Glen Hughes Glen Hughes is an Australian former professional rugby league footbal ...

. It is his twelfth solo studio album and was released in 2008 on

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History

''First Underground Nuclear Kitchen'', the follow-up to 2006's ''

Music for the Divine ''Music for the Divine'' is a studio album by former Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Trapeze vocalist/ bassist Glenn Hughes. It was his eleventh solo studio album and was released in 2006 on Frontier, Demolition, Sony BMG and Yamaha records. H ...

'' contains more

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–style music than his more hard rock–infused earlier records. The album again features

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drummer

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on the entirety of the record and regular guitarist

JJ Marsh Joakim "JJ" Marsh, born in 1966 is a Swedish guitarist and composer, and is probably best known for his long collaboration with Glenn Hughes. As a teenager Marsh recorded two albums with Spellbound, ''Breaking the Spell'' and ''Rockin 'Reckless' ...

on only two songs. Guitar player Luis Carlos Maldonado, best known for his work with

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, co-wrote five of the songs with Hughes. Other performances come from George Nastos on guitar and Anders Olinder and Ed Roth on keyboards. ''First Underground Nuclear Kitchen'' was mixed by Jono Brown and

. A promotional video was shot for the song "Love Communion", the video was included on the European version of the album as an enhanced track. ''First Underground Nuclear Kitchen'' entered the UK indie charts at No. 24

Track listing

# "Crave" – 4:20 ''(Hughes)'' # "First Underground Nuclear Kitchen" – 3:46 ''(Hughes, Maldonado)'' # "Satellite" – 4:34 ''(Hughes)'' # "Love Communion" – 4:46 ''(Hughes, Maldonado)'' # "We Shall Be Free" – 5:42 ''(Hughes, Maldonado)'' # "Imperfection" – 4:50 ''(Hughes)'' # "Never Say Never" – 5:08 ''(Hughes, Maldonado)'' # "We Go 2 War" – 3:50 ''(Hughes, Maldonado)'' # "Oil and Water" – 4:04 ''(Hughes)'' # "Too Late to Save the World" – 6:22 ''(Hughes)'' # "Where There´s a Will" – 4:27 ''(Hughes)'' ;Japan Bonus Track #

"Imperfection (acoustic "love mix")" – 4:54 ''(Hughes)''

Personnel

–

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gu ...

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

– drums,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

* Luis Carlos Maldonado – electric guitars, acoustic guitars *

– electric guitar on track 9 + 10 * George Nastos – guitar on track 7 + 8 * Anders Olinder –

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

Ed Roth Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. Roth was a key figure in S ...

– keyboards on track 2 + 7,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

on track 4 *

Ana Lenchantin Ana Lenchantin is an Argentine-American cellist of French ancestry, known for frequent appearances with American rock bands such as Train, Into the Presence, The Eels, Gnarls Barkley, No Doubt, Arthur Lee and Love, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch ...

–

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

on track 6

References

External links

{{Authority control Glenn Hughes albums 2008 albums Frontiers Records albums