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In depth coverage of the concept behind "The Origins of Matter and Life" suite [part 1]

2012-02-03T14:43:00.000-08:00

Hi my friend, here is very cold outside, snow is all around and I am in my home while outside the wind blows hard and carries more snow on the countryside.
There's nothing to do but staying at home and then I decided to write this post, an in depth coverage of the concept behind "The Origins of Matter and Life" suite, contained in Lunocode's "Celestial Harmonies" album.

Just out of curiosity, this is the nice landscape outside my door in a particularly calm moment today:

Winter landscape outside my door

As i promised some time ago, then, let's go with the suite!

The Origins of Matter and Life tells the story of the creation of the Universe and tells also the story of a character, Albert II, that is actually the protagonist of the entire tale.
The suite is built up by six different movements that are six songs: "On Matter and Mind", "High", "The Cosmic Architect", "Tree of Life", "Crossing the Line" and "Albert II".

On Matter and Mind is an instrumental overtoure that introduces the listener to the suite by letting him listen to the main themes of every subsequent movement. We chose "On Matter and Mind" as a title because we wanted to refer to those old famous scientific papers.


V2 rocket that carried Albert II into space (wikipedia)

High is the first true song. It opens with our character awaking in a strange place, a place he doesn't recognize. He only feels that it is cold and outside everything is black except for a strange sun, a blue sun. At this point we understand for sure that something very strange is happening: how can a sun be blue and why our character is "talking" to this blue sun? Long story short, our character's name is Albert II and he is a monkey, a Rhesus Monkey, in particular, who was launched by Americans, in 1949 (June 14), into space on board of a V2 rocket (see photo on the right). This is his story, romanticized.

So, being a monkey and being used to consider each luminous globe a "sun", he thinks that what he have in front of him is a sun, because it's luminous and it's round. He then tries to get help from this sun by talking to him and imploring him, as he is used doing so on earth, in his language.

He just doesn't know that he is inside a space capsule and the blue globe, that lies calm and still in front of him, is actually the Earth.
Albert feels confused and afraid, he feels a deep sense of panic while everything becomes weightless and he understands that he can't control anymore his movements like he was used to. Even if he doesn't know, he is experiencing weightlessness in space: the reason for him being thrown into space inside the capsule.
He feels a sense of panic and fear and then, maybe for the effects of weightlessness or maybe for some other reason, he sees the "blue sun" transforming into a pulsating light that's getting closer to him.
Now he is really terrified and, plus, he starts to see strange images and hear a rhythmic sound coming out of his chest while he sees his eyes breaking into shards and floating all around him.
After this, he sees the blue globe turning into an eye staring at him and he finally feels himself flowing through this eye. His journey has started.

Notes: at the end of the song you can hear the phrase "by the rule of one-hundred and thirty seven" and you might wonder what's the meaning of this 137-thing. Well, this is a reference to Wolfgang Pauli's obsession for that number (it seems to show up in many physic equations).
Another curiosity is the sentence "and becomes an eye scanning darkly through the eons". This is another "tribute" to one of my favourite sci-fi authors, Philip K. Dick. I like very much his novel "A Scanner Darkly".

To be continued...

Celestial Harmonies available on iTunes

2012-01-12T02:40:00.000-08:00

Hi my friends, Perseo speaking here.
I checked iTunes and found that "Celestial Harmonies" is now available. There are previews for each song of the album (90sec each song) and I would be very glad if you check it out and let us know what you think.
I really hope you all enjoy our music and support us!

Let the journey begin and please pay attention to the lyrics, in particular to "The Origins of Matter and Life". They means a lot to me and to us. I know lyrics could be a little difficult to understand, but I think that deciphering and making your own idea is just an interesting and very fullfilling experience!

Please check this blog out in the next days, I will put online an explanation to the lyrics and some comments about the concept.

I really would like people to comment on these posts and talk with me and with us about the themes covered in the lyrics, I always dig for new ideas and knowing new people who can give me different perspectives from the ones that I have.

Here is the cover and the iTunes link from which you can buy the mp3, and don't forget that if you want to buy a CD version all you have to do is write an e-mail to lunocode@gmail.com or perseo.mazzoni@gmail.com. For the CD version Paypal payments are accepted and you get a nice free gadget :)

I hope to receive some feedback. For now...listen to Celestial Harmonies and enjoy!

direct link: CELESTIAL HARMONIES ON iTUNES

Celestial Harmonies "finnish" recording session

2011-12-31T07:52:00.000-08:00

Hi to you all! Today is December 31 and in a few hours we'll get a brand new year. I wish a happy new year to you all, I hope it will be full of music and happiness!
I know it's a bad period, with the financial crisis, but "hoping" is free of charge for us all :)

Today I wanted to share with you, a little curiosity, an episode on the recording of Celestial Harmonies. In the song "Crossing the Line", fifth movement of the suite "The Origins of Matter and Life", you can hear the sound of the sea and some seagulls.
The curiosity is that the sea is in fact a lake and I recorded it with my iPhone this summer during my vacation in Finland. It was a rainy day and I was in Tampere near Pyynikki tower. I don't know the name of the lake I recorded, but it had a good, brilliant and crispy sound so I decided to take it. The city of Tampere extends all around the lake but in the place I was recording there were not city noises so I took a really clean recording and I ended up using it in the album. I also took a few pic of the exact location, here they are, hope you enjoy them:

Here you can see a pic I took right after the recording

Nice finnish landscape all around

There was a nice house

As seen from the top of the Pyynikki tower

As seen from the top of the Pyynikki tower - pic 2

The Pyynikki tower itself

Another curiosity: seagulls is actually Daphne "singing"! :)

Perseo

Celestial Harmonies single "Tree of Life" available for FREE DOWNLOAD!

2011-12-19T15:41:00.000-08:00

Our single "Tree of Life" is now available for free download on Spider Rock Promotion's website! Click on the following link to DOWNLOAD IT NOW!!

Enjoy and please help us spread the word! :)

Tree of Life - Free listen in streaming

2011-12-16T06:29:00.000-08:00

In the first post I talked a little about Lunocode's brand new album "Celestial Harmonies", now it's time to give it a spin!
You can freely listen at the track "Tree of Life" on our youtube channel,this is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT4G159_pnI

This track is the fourth track of the suite "The Origins of Matter and Life"! Please listen to it and please comment it, on youtube or here in this blog. It's a pleasure for us to read what you think, being it a positive or a negative review :)

Perseo

Welcome to our little space!

2011-12-14T14:42:00.000-08:00

Hi, it's Perseo speaking here, hi to you all, this is our new blog! :)

I put it online to share some thoughts and feelings about our music and to talk about our work and maybe our lyrics and other (hopefully) interesting things like music recording, production and related.

In this first post I would like to talk about something that got me busy in the last months, before I started producing Lunocode's new album Celestial Harmonies, that will be released on January 10 2012 by Spider Rock Promotion.

I love very much science, and I love very much philosophy as well, plus, I am a very thoughfull person, I'm really in love with Carl Sagan's work and also I recently discovered a writer that I never heard of before called William Olaf Stapledon. In fact I found an old italian edition of "Starmaker" in the house we rent this summer when we played at Alive Music Festival in Barletta and, as I am a curious person, I googled for it and I found an old edition of "First and Last Men" and "Starmaker", I bought them and read them. I spent quite some time reading those wonderful books and also watching all the 13 episodes of "Cosmos: A personal view" by Carl Sagan as well as reading his "Contact" novel. This gave me continuous inspiration...so I decided to put togheter the thoughts and feelings that I was gathering. A very good story (in my opinion it's really a good story) formed in my mind and so this is the birth of "The Origins of Matter and Life" concept, something that I'm really proud of!
Another great book that inspired me so much is "Deciphering the cosmic number", by Arthur I. Miller, the story of the relation between Pauli and Jung and Pauli's obsession for the number 137.

This is the story about what gave me inspiration to write great part of the lyrics for the album, I can't go deeply into the concept of the suite by now but I promise that I will do it in the next months, after the album is released. I don't want to spoil the story for you when the album is not yet officially released! :)

I would love if someone, reading my lyrics, felt the need to talk with me about those grand themes every song of the album (not only the songs of the suite) gravitate around.

Thanks to everyone of you who will join the conversation and remember: we will find ourselves united and we'll let the light surround us in the heart of the world!! :)

Perseo