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Topic: Tescee takes trip to Extra Terrestrial territory

Posted By: RDavis
Subject: Tescee takes trip to Extra Terrestrial territory
Date Posted: September 05 2008 at 13:34

IAN TESCEE

A TRAVELER’S GUIDE TO MARS

Want to imagine traveling to Mars and exploring the Red Planet? Checking out the climate, testing rock samples, looking for ice and water, and searching for signs of life? Put on the new mostly-instrumental album by IAN TESCEE called A TRAVELER’S GUIDE TO MARS, close your eyes and enjoy the trip.

Inspired by Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury, Mars scientific specialist William K. Hartmann and a currently running Mars planetarium show (which uses this music as its soundtrack), this CD offers beautifully-melodic music. Mostly showcasing electronic synthesizer sounds, the album also features Tescee (pronounced like t-c) on guitars and drums (he even sings briefly on one tune). Not really new age music nor Tangerine Dream-ish, this music is more in the same league with Pink Floyd tunes like “Astronomy Domine” and “One of These Days.” There also are tiny hints of Yes and King Crimson scattered here and there.

The first track “The New World” really kicks off the album in grandiose fashion (elements of prog rock) with massive kick drum and bass rollicking underneath all kinds of synths and guitars. I also like all the songs with “Mars” in the title – “The Lost City of Mars” (kind of a marching android type thing), “Space Tourist Mars” (classic synth drone and piano with some drums) and “Life on Mars” (otherworldly, for sure, but with a trumpet part in the middle, of all things).

Now that we have spaceships landing on Mars regularly and rovers motoring around, taking photos and digging in the soil, the dream of earthlings visiting our nearest neighboring planet is getting closer all the time. So get ready for the pending journey by listening to this music.

I also like the cover shot of driving to Mars in a Toyota Prius (according to the liner notes), and the back cover NASA photo showing the little rover’s tracks (the first human-made markings on another planet even if we had to make them from 40-million miles away!).

Available at http://www.iantescee.com/ - www.iantescee.com or www.cdbaby.com.