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The Icarus Foray
Immersion Theory →2,322 listeners12,817 plays
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The Icarus Foray is an ambient opus set in the early days of NASA space exploration. The opening track, Icarus One, contains the radio transmission of a pilot secretly launched on a one-way mission into space. That message, badly garbled and fragmented, suggests he may have encountered some kind of living environment that he is now traveling with and through. Musically, Icarus One combines orchestral instrumentation, granular synthesis, choirs and synthesizers in an ambient bed through which subtle melodies appear and vanish. Occasional Morse code tones suggest another more cryptic avenue of storytelling. Echoes of Apollo is a primeval wash of granular orchestral tones set to an astronaut's reading of Genesis. Resonance is a more melodic progress theme that recalls 60s-era anticipation of the conquest of space. The final track on the album, Solar Garden, recalls some thematic elements from Icarus One, and can be interpreted to resume the Icarus story at some later point in time - moving the listener over the surface of a forest world, across an alien sea, down into an oceanic trench and seemingly straight through the crust of the planet and into its flaming cathedral-like core. No radio transmissions clarify the plot line, however organ and choir motifs question whether this locale is entirely in the physical realm. At 22:05, Solar Garden is the longest track on the album. Immersion Theory is the Ambient/Space Music moniker of Los Angeles recording artist John-Mark
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