Dead Dimension by Spacelab

Responding to his situation, he channelled his anger, resentment, anxiety and paranoia into creating off-the-cuff, instinctive music, working in real-time to capture a specific mood and moment in time.

The ghostly voices of Inner Flight and the scattered sonics of Twisted Shadow speak to a chaotic range of emotions. The still drone of Cloudless Blue evokes apathy and ambivalence, while the wavering melodies of Ectopic and Metro Hieroglyphics are pure heartbreak.

Bringing together aspects of ambient, drone and electronica, Spacelab has created an album that is created from heartbreak and can exhibit all of its many characteristics, while offering a strange hopefulness that greatness can be mined from such depths.

Music by Spacelab (Carl M Knott)
Mastered by Anthony Morrow
Artwork by Adrian Cain
Additional layout & design by Darren Holloway

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"Growth and death manifest themselves in the celestial vortex and expanses of an imagined universe on the new Spacelab album. The strains of coping with a pandemic that is far from over, the anger, resentment, paranoia and hopelessness of it all are channelled into a soundtrack made in real-time: a spontaneous process that captures the exact state of mind and resulting mood music there and then.

Always in a spiral or cyclonic loop; always travelling at a certain velocity through space, Dead Dimensions captures the dying reverberations of a dead star, or, sets the dials towards hyper-drive, thrusting through tunnelled and warped light passages of kosmische, ambient and sci-fi music on its way to a rendezvous with otherworldly escapism.

In amongst the pulses, continuous reversal effects, speed-shifts and oscillations the sound of plucked ambiguous instruments, even melodies, can be heard: but only in snatches. At times choral voices can be made out, leading to distant cathedral symphonic music and a mere resonance of Kluster and Tangerine Dream.

Spacelab’s emotional states lead to skying across neutron-calculated clouds, probing paranormal activity aboard a space freighter, and journey’s inside a roulette table spinning transport hub. Satellites, fleeting snippets of memories and debris fly by on this hurtle through a universe of mystery, lament, curiosity and gravitas, as Spacelab concentrates grief, rage and despair into a sonic cosmology."

Monolith Cocktail
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Cassette and CD are available here:-

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boycalledcrow is the alias of Chester-based sound artist Carl M Knott (Wonderful Beasts, Spacelab). Knott, a former folk musician, uses his myriad acoustic influences to create unique, strange and beautiful compositions.

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