Intelligentsia beams down with a new electronic deep space concept album, dazzling us with a most 'unearthly' and mature work to date - available here now!

Mirai says: "The concept behind 'Music for Motherships' was to create a soundscape devoid of any real structure or quantization - a completely free-flow stream of consciousness. One day was set to write each piece simply to press record and hear what happens - with the first take being the finalized track. The result is something to put on in the background but not focused on - to enable you to switch off, meditate, and phase out of reality. Perhaps to imagine the internal echoes of Star-ships and their machines humming to themselves in the darkness, or the Universe viewed from portals, spliced with the ambient sound of solitude during a long haul across space. At the very least its somewhere some of us hope to be in the not too distant future."

Vocals on STARSEED by SARA RONNEKE (SWEDEN) and HIDEYO BLACKMOON (JAPAN). Vocals on MONOLITH by STEVE DEG (ORANGEY). Effected piano on PROMETHEUS created with CECIL.

Electronic Music devices used on this album: Roland JD800, JD990, JV1080, Juno 106, Yamaha DX200, CS5, CS1x, Prophet 600, Kawai k5000r, Casio CZ3000.

Influences: 2001 Space Odyssey, Alien, Halflife, Portal, Star Trek, John Carpenter, HR Giger, UFO, EVP & Paranormal Research, Astronomy, Star Gazing...

Keywords: ambient, new age, electronic, film music, classical, space, soundtrack, instrumental, sci-fi, electronica, experimental, alternative...

Certainly one for Off-Worlders, Astronomers and Space Cadets alike.

AVAILABLE NOW!

 
MUSIC FOR MOTHERSHIPS (review - Japan)

Absolute tour de force recapitulating on the allegorical spacetime reality mirroring the isolation and search for meaning covered in "Solaris" the novel and film "2001" the same and texturally as music the early soundscapes of Atem, Phaedra and Rubycon by Tangerine Dream, later beautified by The Orb and DJ Krush with their ambient non factory club sounds. Mirai has always been at his best when Intelligentsia is depicted in visual context whether it be with a modern club dance group; Meisai (Japan) or supernovas of space exploration in Intelligentsia's own dreamworlds "Interstella" & "Touchdown" to name but a few. And this is just from hearing a medley - can't wait to hear the whole album!

Bazel - for Alternative (UK), Juice Magazine (Japan)