Monday 29 April 2019

Loren Mazzacane Connors ‎– "Red Mars" (Family Vineyard ‎– FV69) 2011


Not only is Mars red, its dead also. Its been probed,and explored by robotic vehicles for decades now,and the best they can find is the odd jet of Methane escaping from the deeply frozen martian dust.
Lets face it, there is no life anywhere in the observable universe,well, at least within a few light years of our blue oasis floating in a very narrow goldilocks zone,and an endless series of good fortune.Our little Earth, you know,the one that we're destroying? And the inhospitability of our dead twin further emphasises that there is NO planet 'B'. We're fucked, and there's Fuck all we can do about it because the ,major cause of our demise is capitalism,the unsustainable manifestation of our own greed and short-sighted stupidity.
In extra-terrestrial life terms we are,supposedly, in the 'Intelligent' bracket,but, if there was 'Intelligent life surviving on any exo-planet within 50 light years in any direction we would know about it. There have been no, zero, alien transmissions detected from any of our neighbouring star systems.And none of the closest exo-planets that have been spectrum analysed, have any polluting or unantural elements. like CFC's, in their atmospheres.Suggesting that if there is any intelligent life on these bodies,they haven't yet achieved any equivalent of the Industrial revolution as of yet.....lucky for them.Of course, there is a very real prospect that there is a natural limit of tecnological advancement that if reached, leads to the inevitable self-anihilation of the incumbant species.A process that seems to have been triggered on our planet,and is currently advancing like a runaway train with no-one manning the brakes.
The odds of the Human race being alone ,at least in this Galaxy, have been slashed to odds-on favorite. And nobody can encapsulate that stark reality better than Loren Mazzacane Connors.
In space there's no-one to hear you scream, or anybody else screaming that we can hear to give us hope we're not alone after all.

Tracklist:

1 On Our Way 10:24
2 Red Mars I 1:56
3 Red Mars II 10:46
4 Showers Of Meteors 6:52
5 Little Earth 4:34


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love this stuff, Thanks!

kevinesse said...

man you've really opened up a world of guitar noodlers i wasn't hep to! thank yous. Do you happen to have the 3 disc thing with 79! singles on it? There's also one called Hell! hell! hell! hell! hell! that judging by the title, must be super good~ great stuff! thanks

Anonymous said...

https://familyvineyard.bandcamp.com/album/red-mars
Margarida Garcia features on the first track
https://margaridagarcia.bandcamp.com/
https://yewrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/here-they-rest-immobile
Also
3 disc thing?
https://familyvineyard.bandcamp.com/album/night-through-singles-collected-works-1976-2004
A few pay what you like on the family vineyard bandcamp including Robert Crotty
https://familyvineyard.bandcamp.com/album/robert-crotty-blues-reissue