On the Record: Nektar’s ‘Down to Earth’ Box Set, plus Duke Robillard and Paul McCandless

The progressive rock band Nektar consisted entirely of Britons, but it achieved its greatest commercial successes in Germany (where it formed) and America.

The group’s fan base burgeoned after the late-1973 release of Remember the Futur e, its fourth LP and the first to be issued in the U.S. The album, whose title track filled both sides of a vinyl record, set the band apart from such other prog-rock acts as Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Compared with the work of those groups, the music on Remember the Future and subsequent releases was typically less classically influenced, more emotional, …