Walmartians - Queen Mother Space (2010)

The title of this collection is a bit of an ode to Julian Cope and his spacey goodness. I’d planned to conclude this collection with an epic length title track, but personal circumstances led to me just wrapping it up with the eight songs presented here. There’s an overall sci-fi, space theme that I think works well.

Q.M.S. Dreadnought kicks things off with a big dubby sound. Yes, I’m trying to ape Bill Laswell’s deep bass sound on this one.

My friend Darin described Your Quadrant or Mine as Mediterranean surf space rock. That’s a great description I think.

The title Damnick comes from Ian’s attempt to replicate my profanity at a young age. Yes, I’m a terrible parent.

The title Never Ending Now was inspired by The Chameleons, a criminally unrecognized band. If you have not heard Strange Times seek it out immediately.

The four tracks that make up the second half of this collection – Walmartians (Kontakt Renovo), The Thinner The Air, The Quicker The Joy, Every Star Dies Alone, and Inner Core Collapse (Subterra VI) – are probably my favorite sequence of Walmartians material. They seem to flow well into each other and the scratchy piano outro on the last track caps things off well.

Inner Core Collapse (Subterra VI) concludes the Subterra series I started in the 1990s. The song is for my late friend Kirby Haltom.

Originally released March 2010. Available on Amazon.com and iTunes for purchase.