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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Rocket Scientists "Supernatural Highways" EP


Country: USA
Sub Genre: Instrumental, Symphonic, Electronica
LabelThink Tank Media
Release date: March 20, 2014
Tracklist
1. Traveler on the Supernatural Highways - 26:09
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 4:14

Line-up
Mark McCrite: guitars
Erik Norlander: synthesizers, piano, organ
Don Schiff: NS/Sticks, cello
  With
Gregg Bissonette:drums
Greg Ellis: percussion
Lana Lane: vocal pads
Jon Papenbrook: trumpet
Eric Jorgensen: trombone

Description/Reviews
Supernatural Highways is the first new CD from Rocket Scientists since 2007. It is all-instrumental with a playing time of 30:13, dominated by the 26-minute, seven-part Traveler on the Supernatural Highways. The other track is an arrangement of the John Barry composition On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, written for the Bond film. This is Rocket Scientists at their (instrumental) best. The Bond piece is, like Rocket Scientists’ Space 1999 theme, much more fun than the original. The epic suite has much that is familiar to RS fans but sees the band stretching in new directions. Paramount is the integration of electronics. Norlander has already proven himself an excellent electronic musician, and here he incorporates sequencers and electronic sounds into driving progressive rock, something that a few have done (Ozric Tentacles, obviously) but that could be explored/exploited further. Other parts of the suite get fusion-y, and one has the feeling that, with a different mix, sections could be used as epic and thrilling Hollywood movie soundtrack material. (kinesiscd.com

Media/Samples 
Entire album online

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