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The Old Book of Astronomy

by The 5th Galaxy Orchestra

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"The Old Book od Astronomy" is the latest album release of the electronic ,lounge project "The 5th Galaxy Orchestra" who has explored a range of musical styles in their albums for the last 12 years
This work is mostly inspired from the 90s electronic music scene
It remains my favorite decade in terms of music and bands like Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Saint Etienne, Thievery Corporation , Air, Hooverphonic, Daft Punk, Stereolab, Gentle People, who started their music journey during that decade were an invaluable inspiration for me
So i would describe this album as a creative mixture of 90s dowmtempo ,chillout moods with fresh electronic sounds of today .
I always loved to incorporate various samples especialy from 50s and 60s songs in my musicand this album is no exception
These samples are almost everywhere vocals ,strings arrangements , brass, soundscapes are usually modified samples from my dusted old records .
It would be more easy for me to have new original recordings instead , but i would miss the nostalgic beauty of these sounds and the illussion to give a new life to something that passed..

Tracklist

1 Hypnotised by you
The opening song of the album has the characteristic 90s bristol triphop sound mixed with hypnotic violin phrases and cinematic string sections The sampled fragile vocals of Holly Drummont takes you back at the time you first heard Hooverphonic's "2 Wicky" on MTV
2. The Gates of Babylon
A spacey downtempo, dub track ,painted in world music colours, mystic voices and a brass section very familiar to "Thievery corporation" audience
3. West End Town
London stories . pop vibrations with a "Saint Eienne" perfume, somewhere at the end of the Shaftesbury Avenue you can hear "Pet shop Boys" singing West end Girls
4 Sad Valentine ( Bandcamp Edition only )
Dreamy and at the same time melancolic remix of the classic jazz song " My funny Valentine " where the raindrops dance with the distant synth atmospheres and the voices are transforming into haunted asian winds
5. Lost Sunsets Memorabilia
Nostalgic song full of 50s memories on lost american highways where the radio plays vocal female groups and Elvis still whispering songs for forgotten summer kisses
6. Nautilus Voyage
A magic underwater journey with ethereal "Air"y vocoders and watery soundscapes
7. Breath
Vintage Disco moods with stereolab-like mellotrons and strings melt in the exotic 70s American TV soundtracks
8. All the Beauty
Mainstream chillout ,balearic song, samples from Eric Satie's Gymnopedie ,female vocals flirting with Beth Gibbons ghost under the sounds of fragile violin performances
9. Dream Animator
Mysterious ambient echoes with vocal landscapes lead us to an electronic oasis of sounds and chillwavey guitar colors
10 Mad World ( Bandcamp Edition only )
Surrealistic electropop cover of the classic "Tear for Fears" song, childern playing music toys ,trying to forget the new "mad" world waiting in the near future
11. Abandoned Spacestation
Ambient trippy electronica soundscapes wakes us up in an dystopian spacey lonely future , where humanity is just a file in the computer memory of an abandoned spaceship floating in the emptiness of space
12 A Flower for Florence
Can a computer generated voice be sensitive? Innocent Pop mellotrons and vibraphones , flutes and toy instruments give a Happy End to this
album . MTV still plays Cardigans "Sick and tired" on a Japanese TV
and a wonderful summer sun is shining outside my window ..


I hope you enjoy it
Thanks so much for your support

Panos

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released April 5, 2021

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The 5th Galaxy Orchestra

The 5th Galaxy Orchestra loves mixing old voices and other sonic material from the past with new electronic sounds .
Its sound is a unique blend of electronic grooves , lounge pop melodies , sci-fi noises , retrospace sounds , 80s synthpop tones , and dreamy soundscapes.
5th G. O members are session vocalists and other music performers from the present or the past....
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