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Cosmic Cassiopeia Music for Late Night Listeners Review by Gary Hill Dr, Space (Scott Heller) must be one of the busiest musicians on the planet - or perhaps more appropriately, in the galaxy. It seems like he's constantly releasing one project after another. This is one such recording, this time teamed up with Daniel Lars. The music here reflects the space rock elements that seem nearly omnipresent in the music Heller creates. This is artistic, and yet fun. There is a decent range, and I'd recommend this to fans of instrumental space music. This review is available in book (paperback and hardcover) form in Music Street Journal: 2022 Volume 3. More information and purchase links can be found at: garyhillauthor.com/Music-Street-Journal-2022.

Track by Track Review

Deep in the Depths of your Mind Cool keyboard textures bring this in. Then some psychedelic guitar comes over the top and starts jamming as the number works forward. It is a freeform exploration with a real space rock feeling to it.

Cloth Ears There is more of a fun groove to this piece. Yet, it's still decidedly space rock based. I can even make out some hints of funk on this, though.

Get it On I love the driving element at the back of this and particularly how it contrasts with the trippy space sounds out front. That more insistent part drops away later, giving way to more pure space.

Bear Romper Stomper There is cool echoey space rocking vibe to this number. It has a great energy and some killer guitar work. It's a rich and dense arrangement of space rock.

Maggies's Flower Feeling quite freeform and tastefully weird, I really like this number a lot. It's quite the adventure.

Sweeping Klaus's Patio Driving and hard rocking, this is another killer space rock outing. There are some killer instrumental forays on this. The interplay between the instruments works so well. In fact, this might be my favorite piece here.

Lucid Dreaming Lots of layers of keyboards are heard as this gets underway. The cut works through a number of changes, getting into some echoey and suitably dreamy mellower stuff later.

Cosmic Vermin Lights Packed full of cool melodic exploration, this is an energized and rather soaring space rock jam.

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