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Run Time: 57 Minutes
Street Date: November 26, 2024.
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TRACK LIST:
1. A Murder of Asteroids
2. A Funeral in Space
3. A Shoal of Asteroids
4. Computers Are an Interesting Mix of Science and Voodoo
5. Universal Stellar Distribution
CREDITS
All instruments by Michael W. Dean except:
Guitars on all songs, plus drone synth on “A Shoal of Asteroids”: J. Robert Cahoots. His parts recorded in 1995 the day after Jerry Garcia died. Recorded on a 4-track Tascam Portastudio.
Thessalonius B. Porkchomp, Esq. played Korg Triton and Moog Voyager synth drones on “Universal Stellar Distribution.”
CONCEPT
This is an instrumental concept album about the trials and triumphs of multi-generational interstellar space travel.
The story is in the music, but also in the song titles. You listen and tell US what the story is!
FUN FACT
“Computers Are an Interesting Mix of Science and Voodoo” is a couple minutes of all 4 songs at the same time, at 2x speed, this a nice fade out of just one song.
I got the idea from someone compressing all the Grateful Dead studio albums into one second. It basically sounds like aggressive white noise.
TUNING
None of this album is microtonal, thought it does intentionally swim in and out of tune some places, just to make some groovy beating.
ARTWORK
Cover designed in Grok AI by Michael W. Dean. Is a bit of an homage to the gatefold art of Led Zeppelin’s Presence:
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This album, like the others this group does, took me to Different Places as I listened to it.
No chemical enhancement required.
I have a cat, I love him, and though my lady thinks he’s ignorant, I think he’s a genius. Just the kind of cat who not only has a brain, but plays with brains (like on the album artwork) and in fact could figure out how to do intergenerational space travel and boldly go where no cat has gone before.
That’s the Story That Appeared In My Head while listening to CATS WITH BRAINS…my boy, something like the Elon Musk / Einstein / Edison of cats, starts the intergenerational journey into the cosmos, leaving the comforts of Earth behind. Because he and the other cats on the spacecraft are accomplished nappers, they decide to make the voyage while sleeping, awakening only long enough to mate, raise kittens to adulthood, then go back to sleep. Before dying of old age, each generation awakens one last time, yawns, stretches, grooms itself, and dies. They are then put into the airlock and fired toward the nearest star.
What happens, many generations later, when they finally find a habitable planet, one filled with rodents to hunt and trees to climb?
Listen to CATS WITH BRAINS and find out for yourself. Meow.