Take the data transmissions of Voyager to NASA from Jupiter, gravitational wave audio studies, and NASA imagery. Mix it with the imaginative minds of four talented people, and you get
Spacecraft. Seven space music, electro-ambient journeys await you. Chris Blazen is on electric sustaining koto, and Akai Sampler; Tony Gerber is on Memorymoog, Minimoog, and JD800 Synths, John Rose and his wife, Diane Timmons, on Roland synths pull the stars and solar storms down to your living room. These electronic musicians open up unexplored nether regions on
Spacecraft. Think
Eno's Apollo space sounds,
Roach's miasmas of the universe's breathing in
The Magnificent Void, the avant-garde works of Subotonik, and Salvador Dali on lysergic acid. Only on the last track, "Destination Infinity," do we gain a sense of resolution, a signature Gerberian area I'll call, "the final answer revealed." This is trippy stuff, drenched in creative vision, pulsing with the droning hymns of cyborg priests evangelizing distant worlds. Take a chance and wander the unknown. This release is good picking for any of you budding sci-fi movie makers looking for soundtrack material. ~ John W. Patterson