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Last Transmission by Heliocentrics & Pebbles, Melvin Van (CD, 2014)
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelNow Again, Nag
UPC0659457511821
eBay Product ID (ePID)28046040558
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2014
GenreElectronic
ArtistHeliocentrics & Pebbles, Melvin Van
Release TitleLast Transmission
Dimensions
Item Height0.21 in
Item Weight0.13 lb
Item Length5.02 in
Item Width4.85 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks13
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Prologue 1.2 Chapter 02: Big Bang Reincarnation 1.3 Chapter 03: Searching for Signs of Life 1.4 Chapter 04: Blue Mist 1.5 Chapter 05: The Cavern 1.6 Chapter 06: Transformation (Pt.1) 1.7 Chapter 07: Transformation (Pt.2) 1.8 Chapter 08: Telepathic Routine 1.9 Chapter 09: The Dance 1.10 Chapter 10: Trust the Cosmos (Believe in the Universe) 1.11 Chapter 11: Infinite List (Toss the Dice) 1.12 Chapter 12: Epilogue 1.13 Bonus Instrumentals
NotesAn interplanetary space/love odyssey featuring Melvin Van Peebles (Brer Soul, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song). Following Heliocentrics' Out There and 13 Degrees of Reality albums. 2 CD Instrumentals included on bonus second disc. Melvin Van Peebles, the filmmaker, musician, author behind the landmark movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the trilogy of Brer Soul albums he released in the 70s has teamed with the UK ensemble Heliocentrics to create an interplanetary space/love odyssey told in twelve chapters. The Last Transmission comes nearly ten years after Van Peebles' appearance as the third member of Quasimoto on Stones Throw Records 2005 release the Further Adventure of Lord Quas. For the Heliocentrics, the Last Transmission represents their third Now-Again album, following Out There in 2007 and 13 Degrees of Reality in 2013. Van Peebles makes for the Heliocentrics' as their name conveys, draw inspiration from both the philosophic leanings of the likes of Stephen Hawkings and interstellar mysteries, like those surrounding the Malian Dogon tribes knowledge of the Sirius B star hundreds of years before it was discovered. Their music is as indebted to Sun Ra's interstellar jazz as it is inspired by psychedelia spiritual expanse. The Last Transmission, presented as a vocal album and an expanded instrumental selection on a bonus disc, can be taken as both the bands interpretation of Van Peebles' poem and a musical voyage inspired by Van Peebles' vivid imagery. The band considers it their defining work, the result of more than a decade of playing and recording together. They're found a voice as a band, one that meshes with Van Peebles, as he weaves an intergalactic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." in between producer/drummer Malcolm Catto's thunderous syncopation and producer/bassist Jake Fergusons bellowing bass lines, amidst the analog electronics and atmospheric interference naturally accorded by their organic analogue process, Van Peebles' voice floats in and out, spectral in it's, tone, complete in it's conviction in the unfathomable sense that life's eruption in the cosmic expanse made, and in love's ability to transform and transcend death.
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