The Black Orchid Galaxies, by Deepspace

The Black Orchid Galaxies

by Deepspace

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boris ruckels This makes me lose focus and stare into a beautifully strange abyss. Favorite track: HyperdriveEngage.

Chis-R Absolutely loving the dissonant chords that crop up throughout this record - they catch you off guard and give you a mild sense of discomfort. This isn't just another themed ambient album, it has some serious soul & texture to it. Favorite track: DreamMachinery (The Long Sleep).

DJ_Tim_Tee This is another phenomenal space ambient album by Deepspace, I truly love it! Favorite track: DreamMachinery (The Long Sleep).

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1.	HyperdriveEngage 06:06	buy track
2.	CylinderRelease 04:52	buy track
3.	Earth to Arcturus System 07:24	buy track
4.	The Garden Orb 02:06	buy track
5.	Muzak Playing Over the Intercom During Flight 04:02	buy track
6.	In the Hydroponic Garden Sector 03:02	buy track
7.	DreamMachinery (The Long Sleep) 03:26	buy track
8.	Travelling Vast Distances 17:44	buy track
9.	Recreational Space Couch 02:36	buy track
10.	UnsettlingData 02:42	buy track
11.	Considering the Loss of the Organic (Smoo's Capsule) 04:54	buy track
12.	Melting 03:36	buy track
13.	CylinderFire (Entropy) 04:32	buy track
14.	Debris 05:10	buy track
15.	By the Grace of Science 06:16	buy track

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…in an unspecified year, a previously unmapped cluster of dwarf galaxies, The Black Orchid 4059 group, is charted and assessed for habitable areas by a newly expanding and spacefaring Earth civilization. A scout ship, the Garden Orb, leaves on a mission to explore the area using recently developed hyperspace travel technology, permitting galactic travel — within the time-frame of a few years — for the first time. Reports are inconclusive as to whether the ship completed its mission or not. This album is an account of that journey.

THE BLACK ORCHID GALAXIES is the 15th studio album by outer-dimension-exploring Australian ambient artist deepspace and his third release on Projekt Records. The recording inhabits an electronic space music sound, simultaneously dark and light with flecks of red-purple and orange inside a dream-like cosmos. Fire-laced and opalescent synths bubble quietly and divide then settle atop distant light-filled synth shrouds. Droning space guitars decorate, encircle and propel a hypersonic musical mosaic of sound cathedrals. Fluctuating between hypnotic explorations of sonic nebulae and vast sounds that threaten to break up on atmospheric entry, this is the most glimmering and wide-screen deepspace album to date. It is part contemporary ambient, part Jarre, while also partly cinematic — think sci-fi movies Silent Running and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

After the sonic stillness that was THE BLUE DUNES, this recording is both moving at light speed, yet exploring strange unrecognizable interplanetary sounds that defy temporal calculations. Strap into your space couch and prepare to slowly come apart as you travel through THE BLACK ORCHID GALAXIES.

Mirko says, “This album came about very fast and basically wrote itself. After the strenuous effort that went into THE ARCHITECTURE OF FLOWERS and THE BLUE DUNES, I was shocked at how easily this came out. I guess maybe my creative gates had been opened by the preceding albums.”

Artist Bio:

deepspace is Brisbane, Australia-based ambient artist Mirko Ruckels. His hypnotic, glacial, dreamy and atmospheric work is created with synthesizers, software and acoustic instruments such as bells, guitars and piano. When he was a little boy in Germany (he is German/French) he would slip into a reverie at hearing a distant lawn mower, a church ringing its bells, passing planes, or the rumblings of far-off trains. This love of drones and ambient sound led to a wondrous moment upon discovering like-minded artists and listeners who also enjoyed atmospheric environments that evoke liminal moods and spaces. He says, “I literally had no idea how to make ambient music and just felt my way in the dark.” In 2006, deepspace was born.

deepspace has released fifteen albums, three through Projekt Records: SUPERRADIANCE, THE BLUE DUNES, and THE BLACK ORCHID GALAXIES, and eleven self-released including THE ARCHITECTURE OF FLOWERS. He also has two 2021 collaborations with theAdelaidean: ADRIFT and ANTIGRAVITY, both on Projekt Records.

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released March 12, 2024

Exposé: "There is stillness, sonic acceleration, powerful meteor showers, deep bends and twists in the space-time continuum and more as the protagonists find their way through an endless world of ambient translucence and the far reaches of shimmering colorful worlds." Full review: tinyurl.com/y2jjdxpu

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Also available from Deepspace:
projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-blue-dunes
projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/superradiance
projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/adrift
projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antigravity
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Projekt is America's premier independent label specializing in passionately intense introspective music in the ambient, electronic, ethereal & darkwave genres. 40-year-old Projekt continues to nurture the careers of its select roster of artists. ... more

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