SpaceShip by Benedict Roff-Marsh

This album was released almost 10 years ago now (2017) and in starting a new record it hit me I wanted to make a sequel. That meant I had to dig this album out and listen to it as while I had it on cassette and MiniDisc it wasn't in my main music collection. In doing that I found a few tracks that had been edited or left off to make it fit on the cassette. Those are restored to the original running order.

The album felt like a turning point for me in making a coherent story for my concept album as well as making it more musical. I had even used a real brass sample on some of the tracks as a theme. Real samples tend to mean using proper notes, and I pretty well managed that, even if I didn't really know what I was doing.

10 years on I am still proud of what I made and apart from restoring running order, the only change is a new cover as I wasn't able to achieve my aims at the time and this is far closer (thanks NASA for the pic).

CONCEPT: the story is of people leaving Earth to start a life on a new world called Virgo 12. Virgo 12 had already appeared as a track "Works In Proto-Techno" and became the planet that appeared behind several of my themed records. This record covers the flight.

NEW RECORD: at the time of writing this there is a new SpaceShip record in the wings which is a part two.

Tracklist

1.	Leaving The Space Station	3:08

2.	In The Space Convoy	3:39

3.	Firing The Main Engines	13:21

4.	Facing Empty Space	3:46

5.	Entering Hypersleep	3:01

6.	Auto Pilot & Empty Corridors	3:14

7.	Flightline	5:17

8.	Central Computer	1:12

9.	Inflight Entertainment	3:45

10.	Waking Up	5:20

11.	Virgo 12 Pt 2	6:04

12.	A New World A New Life	10:20

13.	High Orbit At Virgo 12	5:55

Credits

released August 6, 1997

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