Comet III
Astral Voyager
Fire Museum 2007

01. C1
02. Part 1
03. Part 2
04. Part 3
05. Astral Voyager

It seems like only Italians can get away with choosing a band name like Comet III and naming their debut album Astral Voyager. Or maybe it's as simple as that they don't really care as long as it sounds cool and reflects what they're up to musically speaking. Comet III is the duo of Delfo Catani (guitar, percussion, field recordings, flute, sitar etc.) and Carlo Matanza (various synthesizers) and their music sounds a lot like its name; like the soundtrack for some particularly meditative space odyssey. The ethereal guitar sound and pulsing, oscillating synth work achieves that perfect balance between alien wonder, peculiarly dissolving space whispers and sheets of hazy elegance which reaches its cosmic zenith with the help from haunting, non-word female vocals in 'Part 1'. Listen to the sounds sink into gravity, try to remember the seamless supernatural dreams it generates, get a glimpse of that wide horizon that comes along with such sonic vision. Let it dissolve time into a languid stupor...

...or simply sit back and relax.

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