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The Luvmenauts: In Space
ByWhy then is it being reviewed here? In part because it is sonically imaginative, and so will appeal to many jazz fans, but more because it is a lot of fun, and we can always use a shot of that. In Space is in an adjacent bag to Whatitdo Archive Group's Black Stone Affair (Record Kicks, 2021). Released around April Fools Day, that album was an affectionate spoof of an Ennio Morricone-esque spaghetti-western soundtrack. Like Whatitdo Archive Group, The Luvmenauts appear to be on a mission to create soundtracks for films that never were.
Aside from Delia Derbyshire and mid-1960s library composers such as John Baker and Keith Mansfield, In Space has resonances as diverse as John Cage, exotica, twangtastic beat combo The Ventures, krautrock, calypso and film composers such as Nino Rota and Piero Umiliani (though not Umiliani's jazz-based score for 1962's Smog, which made effective use of trumpeter Chet Baker). It is, as stated, fun, and if you do not find it so, it has the advantage of being only 34 minutes long.
Track Listing
Extravehicular Activity; Asteroid Mines Of The Kuiper Belt; A Stroll Through The Arboretums Of Mars; Michael Dorn Suffers A Spatial Anomaly; ’71 Shuttle; Spice Always Flows; Indoor Replinishmenet Plaza; Follow Your IC 1805; Rasputin’s Mystic Frozen Appendage Pr. 1 & 2; Worf Son Of Mogh Suffers A Spatial Assembly; Solstice & Equinox; Cruiseship Enterprise.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
Andrew Moljgun: keyboards, flute, synthesizer, taishokoto, percussion, whistle; Alex Furlott: bass guitar; Josh Cavan: keyboards, guitar, taishokoto; Jonathan Hyde: drums, synthesizer, glockenspiel, vibraphone, guitar, percussion. AdamBeer-Colacino: guitar (9); Leland Whitty: soprano saxophone (11).
Album information
Title: In Space | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: Do Right Music
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About Andrew Moljgun
Instrument: Keyboards
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