Considering the impossible vastness of the universe, you might consider yourself lucky to occupy the same space and time as Northern Irish electronic composer Hannah Peel. And, as if that wasn’t enough already, you’ll be happy to know you might also get the opportunity to experience her imminent third album, Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia — that is, of course, assuming your spiritual self doesn’t return to the stars by September 8, which is when the album arrives via My Own Pleasure (no no, the pleasure’s all mine).
Before you set off on this profound galactic journey, though; know that the new album is “a seven-movement odyssey composed for analogue synthesizers and full, traditional 29-piece colliery brass band,” which I’ve always said is the peanut-butter-and-jelly of postmodern musical ensembles. Peel has said of the record, “I wanted these huge slabs of planetary sounds to echo the excitement and wonder of our human need to explore and develop,” so it’s sure to be the soundtrack of choice for Martian potato gardeners everywhere.
But wait! Before your mind expands too much — click here to pre-order the album, take a listen to the single “Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula” below, and picture yourself as an insignificant conglomeration of outcast matter drifting through the empty planes of space, because, get this: that’s basically what you are! (That probably means you don’t have to pay off your student loans, right?)
Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia tracklisting:
01. Goodbye Earth
02. Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula
03. Deep Space Cluster
04. Andromeda M31
05.
Life Is On the Horizon
06. Archid Orange Dwarf
07. The Planet of Passed Souls
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