The Floatation Project

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SOUNDS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Released: September 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.

TRACKS:

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 2
12 Lonely in Space
13 Atmosphere
14 Stars are not Stars - Reprise

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Price: £6.99

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