New Music Space Remains
Space Remains, the England-born, Sydney-based DIY Experimental Electronic / Dark Wave project of David Bowden, started in the late 90s, returns as promised, after last May’s “Telepath”, with a video by Lester Thinkov for a song that was originally recorded around 1999, “Stars,” as well as the lead track from the forthcoming debut album “Dream Radio” scheduled for release in early 2025, via Bowden’s Elated Cat Records.
Lyrically about a metaphysical poet who longs for his younger self to wake up and see the light, “Stars” bounces on a steady hypnotic pulsing floor of chugging basslines and crisp marching beats, to stir warm swirls of immersive glowing synths and vibrant melancholic orchestral swathes over evocative heartfelt vocals achingly waiting for the seeds of love to grow.
The artificial intelligence visuals by Lester Thinkov, similar to the “Telepath” video, have a shapeshifting environment that blends vintage, old-timey vibes with a futuristic cyber-dystopia. But the story, a personal one to Bowden, is different and brings forth the question “Can you have a biography from imagination?”
It begins with a young man leaving home to go to school. The setting is urban, with skyscrapers and underground subways. After being ‘programmed’ by a variety of historical and fictional cultural imagery, he changes and becomes a person full of booze, pills, and elitist nightlife escapades. Then, as if awakening from a coma or dream, things shift, and confusion sets in as he can’t figure out if the time period was real. But there is a string tying the two timelines together, a future self, played by Bowden, who is desperately trying to deliver an important message to the younger self. The end is a beautiful celestial scene with flashing star constellations, raining meteor showers and, in typical AI fashion, three full moons reflecting sunlight into a nighttime bay.
Space Remains‘ 2-track 7″ single “Stars” is out now on Elated Cat Records‘ Bandcamp and digitally on all the major streaming platforms, while the album “Dream Radio” is slated for release in early 2025.
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