Jazz Articles about Spacecraft

Spacecraft: Earthtime Tapestry

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

If there can be such a paradoxical thing as “retro" or “nostalgic" spacemusic, then this album is it. The main player in “Spacecraft" is the young, but veteran synthesist Giles Reaves, who is assisted by space sidemen Tony Gerber, John Rose, and Diane Timmons. Much of it was recorded live at the Hummel Planetarium in Kentucky (there is soft applause after the last piece on the album). Indeed, this music is very much in the genre of “planetarium music" as ...