Journey to Mars Mars is and has been very bright in the night sky of late. I’m somewhat of a ‘night-owl’ and enjoy periodically stepping outside and staring up at the stars. I’m no astronomer, but I do like to stargaze, to look up and ponder, often whilst listening to music I’m working on. Mars has been so dominant a feature of late that it’s been hard to ignore. This is also true of Mars’ current media attention. It seems like there has never been a time before (certainly not in my lifetime) where Mars has featured so heavily in day to day news stories and in the media in general. It has been the inspiration of many television shows and discussions. Mars is the closest it’s been to Earth in the last fifteen years, but more exciting is the idea that it’s becoming more and more plausible that someday soon, perhaps within the next twenty years that human beings will set foot upon the surface of Mars! I’ve watched numerous programs and read lots of literature about Mars and the idea of human colonisation of ‘The Red Planet’. All this and more inspired me to create this album. ‘Journey to Mars’ is a simplified imagining of the steps already taken and the future processes involved in getting humans to Mars. The idea behind the sound-design of the record is threefold: One: Piano features on every track, but utilised and effected in different ways. I wanted to use Piano as the primary instrument across this record. To me it felt like the most common ‘Earth Instrument’. Ins