{"id":2353,"date":"2014-12-18T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasserbassin.com\/site\/pages\/page-with-sidebar\/shop\/the-heliocentrics-melvin-van-peebles-the-last-transmission-2lp\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T22:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T21:25:15","slug":"the-heliocentrics-melvin-van-peebles-the-last-transmission-2lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/the-heliocentrics-melvin-van-peebles-the-last-transmission-2lp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heliocentrics &#038; Melvin Van Peebles &#8211; The Last Transmission &#8211; LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Last Transmission&#8221;<\/strong> is an interplanetary space\/love odyssey told in twelve chapters; it comes nearly ten years after <strong>Van Peebles\u2019<\/strong> appearance as the third member of Quasimoto on Stones Throw Records\u2019 2005 release The Further Adventure of Lord Quas. For the <strong>Heliocentrics<\/strong>, The Last Transmission represents their third Now-Again album, following Out There in 2007 and 13 Degrees of Reality in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Peebles<\/strong> makes for the <strong>Heliocentrics\u2019<\/strong> ideal foil: he did graduate work in astronomy in Holland in the 1950s and maintains an avid interest in cosmology. <strong>The Heliocentrics<\/strong>, as their name conveys, draw inspiration from both the philosophic leanings of the likes of Stephen Hawkings and interstellar mysteries, like those surrounding the Malian Dogon tribe\u2019s knowledge of the Sirius B star hundreds of years before it was discovered. Their music is as indebted to Sun Ra\u2019s interstellar jazz as it is inspired by psychedelia\u2019s spiritual expanse.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Transmission, presented as a vocal album and an expanded instrumental selection on a bonus disc, can be taken as both the band\u2019s interpretation of Van Peebles\u2019 poem and a musical voyage inspired by Van Peebles\u2019 vivid imagery. The band considers it their defining work, the result of more than a decade of playing and recording together. They\u2019ve found a voice as a band, one that meshes with Van Peebles,\u2019 as he weaves an intergalactic \u201cRime of the Ancient Mariner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In between producer\/drummer Malcolm Catto\u2019s thunderous syncopation and producer\/bassist Jake Ferguson\u2019s bellowing bass lines, amidst the analog electronics and atmospheric interference naturally accorded by their organic analogue process, Van Peebles\u2019 voice floats in and out, spectral in its tone, complete in its conviction in the unfathomable sense that life\u2019s eruption in the cosmic expanse made, and in love\u2019s ability to transform and transcend death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Now Again<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Last Transmission&#8221;<\/strong> is an interplanetary space\/love odyssey told in twelve chapters; it comes nearly ten years after <strong>Van Peebles\u2019<\/strong> appearance as the third member of Quasimoto on Stones Throw Records\u2019 2005 release The Further Adventure of Lord Quas. 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