'Sounds from
the Solar System ’
RELEASE DATE - Sept 25th 2006
After releasing his debut album 'Sonic Stories' in May 2005,
receiving some excellent reviews in the music press ( MOJO called
it 'Understated Splendour' whilst Uncut said 'Guitarist Paul
Hemmings can shine from other angles' ), The Floatation Project
a.k.a Paul Hemmings ( The La's/Lightning Seeds ) has been working
on his next long player entitled 'Sounds from the Solar System'.
This visionary and beautifully multi-textured instrumental album
explores Space, a theme that has fascinated him since watching
the first moon missions in black and white as a childhood ( infact
not since 1983 with Eno’s Apollo has there been a bona
fide space album ). It’s an intoxicating mixture of acoustic
and electronic which takes you on a journey into the worlds that
exist in our Solar system and beyond - from eerie drones using
both synths and lap steel reflecting the cold vast emptiness
of space, to bright sparkling celestial tracks producing stunning
vestiges of sound. This is a unique album that inhabits the same
orbit as Kraftwerk, Can, Eno and Fripp but dragged into the 21st
Century, with something all of its own. It is music that produces
a whole range of moods and one that is an astral delight.
TRACK LISTING:
1) Life on Earth
2) Dark Moon
3) Time & Motion
4) Solar
Symphony
5) Lunar Poles
6) Astronauts Dream
7) Stars are not
Stars
8) Sphere
9) Driftation
10) One Giant Step
11) Orbital
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12) Lonely in Space
13) Atmosphere
14) Stars are not Stars
- Reprise
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Press notes
"Fasinating,unsettling and unique"
Rough Trade, Oct 2006
"Vast, multi-textured acoustic/electronic Krautrock-influenced
synth grooves and cosmic ambience rich in celestial drones."
Selectadisc,Oct
2006
"New and refreshing-A highly entertaining work of 'driftation'"
'With its dreamy soporific qualities, it shares the
same territory as Krautrock pieces like Kraftwerk's 'Europe Endless'
or Can at their most hypnotic-recomended
Tim Peacock Whisperin'and Hollerin' March 2007
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