This is our first time playing together after the lockdown. We met on May 30, 2020. 70 minutes before Space X's second attempt to launch. It was a spontaneous decision that we made music in parallel to the Nasa Live stream of the launch.

The recording of the first piece "Memories of the Space Age" started about 6 minutes in the last phase of the countdown and accompanies the departure from Space X to outer space.

The second title, “Report on an Unidentified Space Station”, which we subsequently recorded, is about traveling in space in general.

Both songs are a tribute to the women and men who travel to space. So far from Afghanistan, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great Britain, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Austria , Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Soviet Union, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Syria, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, USA, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

The song titles are also a reminder of the British writer J.G. Ballard.
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The following instruments were used: Arturia Keystep, Behringer Crave, Boss CS-3, Boss Space Echo, Doepfer A-100 Modular System, Electro-Harmonix Memory Man, Korg SQ-1, Strymon Volante and a wavetable synth from Dirty Electronics. In "Memories of the Space Age", the NASA live stream was also a source. No post-production.

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As a bonus to the album there is a new collage by the artist and musician Ulli Bomans (Schieres, Shrubbn!!), which he made while listening to the two tracks.

Although Bomans was unfamiliar with J.G. Ballard's "Memories of the Space Age", his collage wonderfully captures the mood of the short story. In Ballard's "Memories of the Space Age" (1983), the NASA space program was abandoned. The Kennedy Space Center and all of Florida were cleared and declared a restricted area. The reason is a type of "space sickness" caused by a mental rift in time and space that is spreading. This is apparently due to space travel itself. The protagonists of the story move through abandoned places in a timeless trance.

This abandonment and the standstill of time is omnipresent in Ulli Bomans' collage. The collage consists of finds that Ulli collected on the streets during various walks through Los Angeles. You can find more about Ulli Boman's work here: ullibomans.com