Freak out in a moonage daydream…
You may be familiar with Andrew Smith‘s fascinating book, MOONDUST: In Search of the Men Who Fell To Earth, inset above.
In an interview with yesterday’s Sunday Times he spoke of a companion CD he has compiled to be released in May via Heavenly Records. Here’s an excerpt…
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Again, a musician, this time David Bowie, seemed to sum up the emotional shift more clearly than anyone else when he said: ? For me and several of my friends, the 1970s were the start of the 20th century. It was Kubrick?s doing, on the whole, with 2001 and A Clockwork Orange . . . there was a distinct feeling that nothing was true any more and that the future was not as clear-cut as it had seemed . . . everything was up for grabs.?
Bowie?s music provides as evocative a taste of that time as any other art form has to offer.
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You can read the full thing here.
The folks at Heavenly kindly elaborated thus when I asked them about the album…
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The Moondust album is out in May (date TBC at the mo, still finalizing the artwork). The record is the soundtrack to the book of the same name by Andrew Smith ? came out in the UK in 2005 ? and a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. It represents the music that inspired the book along with lots of recordings from the period of the Apollo moon missions.
Pretty much anything by Bowie from that period would have worked, but in the end we plumped for Moonage Daydream as it worked better than anything else. The record has been mixed by Richard Norris (The Grid/Beyond The Wizard?s Sleeve) – it?s ended up as a very trippy patchwork of aural psychedelia from the 40 years of recorded music.
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They also gave us the exclusive on the tracklisting, tracks separated by ~~~ run into each other:
01 – Bernard Hermann ? The Day The Earth Stood Still ~~~ 02 – The Byrds ? Eight Miles High
03 – Strawberry Alarm Clock ? Incense & Peppermints
04 – Creedence Clearwater Revival ? Bad Moon Rising
05 – Moby Grape ? Indifference
06 – David Bowie ? Moonage Daydream ~~~ 07 – Howlin? Wolf ? Smokestack Lightning
08 – The Flaming Lips ? Do You Realise?
09 – Ringo Starr ? It Don?t Come Easy
10 – Jeff Buckley ? Hallelujah
11 – Richard Hawley ? Cry A Tear For The Man in The Moon
12 – Grateful Dead ? Candyman
13 – The Handsome Family ? Our Blue Sky
14 – Last Poets ? Mean Machine
15 – AR Kane ? A Love From Outer Space
16 – Legeti ? Lux Aeterna
17 – Brian Eno ? An Ending (Ascent)
18 – Dr Samuel J. Hoffman ? Music Out Of The Moon
19 – Danny Williams ? Moon River
20 – American Music Club ? Western Sky
This looks like being a bit good and with the involvement of Richard Norris it’s going to be all the more special. Looking forward to hearing how he’s segued Moonage Daydream into what remains possibly my favourite blues track of all time, Howlin? Wolf‘s Smokestack Lightning.
