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Io Flyby

from Satellites by Shards Of Reason

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I was going to leave Io out of the album, mainly on the basis that everyone would expect it there as some big, thundering track of Wagnerian proportions, which was not what I wanted 'Satellites' to be about.

But it would have been churlish of me to ignore it - Io is the most volcanic body in the solar system; a violent, restless world of ever changing, hellish landscapes. It's turbulent life is governed by the iron fist of Jupiter's gravity, which churns its inner core and produces endless days and nights of volcanic fury.

So, no...I couldn't leave it out...but I didn't want something akin to "The Ride Of The Valkyries", either.
The Galileo probe made the closest flyby of Io between 1997 and 1999. For all its violence and geological liquidity, there would be no noise, obviously, although there has been some sound recorded of its electro-static discharge...the real music of Io.

So what I decided on was a quiet, introspective, glacially-slow piece, with Galileo, in my mind's eye, sailing sedately past the ever-shifting vista below.
This track is dedicated to the late Hugh Hopper, who lost his battle with leukaemia in 2009. Hugh was an enormously talented musician and was a part of the golden era of my favourite band, Soft Machine.

Their album "Third" is my number one album of all time and was a major influence on the 12-year-old me wanting to learn to play an instrument.

Thanks, Hugh.

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from Satellites, released November 7, 2010

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