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Liftoff to Landing

Liftoff to Landing cover

Available on Bandcamp soon.
This album was a bit of a surprise. I was working with Eli Goldberg of Prometheus Music to transfer a lot of old reel-to-reel tapes for a variety of possible projects and the original four-track master for this album was one of them. After some discussion, we all decided that the best thing would be to put this back out under the Dodeka label, which is what we've done here.
Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when recording was done direct to tape and if you made a mistake, you either recorded again from scratch or lived with it, because punch-ins were not yet a thing. It was 1986, and Bill and Clif recorded an entire album in an attic recording studio as the first (and last, as far as we know) project for Todd Voros and STI Studios.
We are happy to bring it back into print now. When working with recordings like this, the first principle is "Do No Harm" and that's what we've tried to do in the mixes here as we've dealt with tape hiss, microphone bleed, and other artifacts that would not have been noticeable on a cassette. We hope that you like the result! We also added two bonus tracks, "No Morning" and "Come With Me". These songs were written around the same time and recorded here using techniques similar to those for the original album, but equipment that is far newer, except for the voices, which we trust have aged well.

Space Is Dark
The Outer Space Rocket Trilogy
   New World Rising
   What Kind of Man?
   Lone Star
Requiem
One Last Battle
Photon Chamber 4
Legends
Promises
The Destroyer
Sitting In a Bar
Michael O'Meara
Ohio Blues
Ian the Grim
The Academy
Life Is a Brook
The Wind From Rainbow's End
No Morning
Come With Me
I Am Gone