The Song Is Featured on Latest Album
May 16th, 2013, San Francisco, California – California based band ScienceNV will release a music video for the song “Cold Space” from their new album Last Album Before the End of Time on May 17th. In a review in the upcoming issue of Music Street Journal, Jason Hillenburg said this of the song, “This is a spare, crystalline work of ambient beauty. It has a careful, deliberate quality that engages the listener intellectually, but the guitar work lends it a quiet, desperate air with notes that sound like voices rising from the bottom of a well.”
The group talked about recording the song in this way, “Composing and then recording ‘Cold Sleep’ was a lot more like meditating than playing music. Fortunately we limit ourselves to only one ambient piece for each of our albums -- otherwise we'd still be in a trance. It's extremely difficult for us to restrain ourselves during these pieces; gee whiz, we've got a studio packed full of nifty machines, and this sort of soundscape forces us to focus very carefully on a minimum of tones and chords.”
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, ScienceNV was formed in 2005 by Larry Davis (guitar and bass guitar), David Graves (keyboards), Jim Henriques (guitar and keyboards) and Rich Kallet (drums). ScienceNV released their debut album, Really Loud Noises in 2008. They followed that up with Pacific Circumstances in 2010. While progressive rock is often considered to be lacking in humor, ScienceNV have a funny side to them. In fact, saying the name out loud reveals both the true meaning of the acronym and their sense of humor, particularly when you understand that every member of the group works in science in one way or another.
The new video (along with the cover to the album) were influenced by Graves’ purchase of a book by Megan Prelinger entitled “Another Science Fiction.” The book focuses on science fiction art and the unsung heroes of that medium. Many worked as graphics designers or book illustrators, and they were rarely acknowledged or named. The video for “Cold Sleep” uses some 50-year-old drawings and footage from that period of time (mostly the late 1950s). Additionally the video uses a number of astrographs by ScienceNV member Jim Henriques. The storyline of the video focuses on a future spaceman’s nightmare of being adrift in space. That’s a theme captured in David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” recently remade in the International Space Station by astronaut and musician Chris Hadfield. It should be noted that the space farer in the ScienceNV video was put into suspended animation when ejected to keep him from losing his mind.
For more information you can check out ScienceNV on the web at http://www.sciencenv.com. Please contact Gary Hill at pr@musicstreetjournal.com for review copies, photos or any additional information needed. Please use the same contact information to set up interviews.
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