Awake… and sliding down a crater! How far down does this thing go, anyway?

Featuring Rudy Nunez, MC (original lyrics and performance)

Sincere flattery: “The Language and Music of the Wolves”, Mesak, DJ Food, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hanna Barbera sound library, aquaman record, Star Trek record, Breakestra

Ep 3: Moon Wolves

Surely certain doom awaited the Captain and the Lieutenant at the bottom of a deep, dark crater on Earth’s moon? But fortune smiles upon our protagonists. Hiding in the ancient and seemingly bottomless regolith is a wormhole. From inside, a disembodied and reassuring voice reminds them of their humble mission.

Featuring Mario Hernandez (original poetry and performance).
Space Texture performed by Camilo Nascimento and Norm Scott

Sincere flattery: Super Seal 2, The Meters, Wankers United, Circles Drum Samples, Sound Ideas, Deodato

Ep 04: Wisdom Of The Wormhole

Emerging from the wormhole, our protagonists find themselves in Occator Spaceport on the dwarf planet of Ceres. But is it future, or past? They’re met at the gate by Doctor Dwarf, a friendly, laid-back chauffeur, who shows them around the city. It’s nice this time of year, though something oppressive hangs in the air…

Doctor Dwarf and the GreetTroller voiced by Rudy Nunez (and improvisational lyrics)
Drums by B.J. Capelli
Guitar by Camilo Nascimento
Keys and dub bass by Norm

Ep. 5: "Doctor Dwarf"

Unexpectedly ducking into the verdant botanical gardens on the edge of the city, Doctor Dwarf reveals unto our protagonists a vast, underground network of fifth columnists who will help them in their quest to deliver The Data. 
 
Featuring Rudy Nunez as DOCTOR DWARF
Camilo Nascimento on guitar
B.J. Capelli on drums and percussion  (Original drum loops are featured on Beat Roots Vol. 2 ! )
Norm on clav and turntables
 
Sincere flattery:  Hippo, Star Trek, X Minus One, The Running Man, Enter the Dragon (Dennis Coffey), Walter Cornelius, Jimmy Smith, Willie Dynamite, Goldfinger, Kentucky Fried Movie, Shaft’s Big Score, The Mack, Curtis Mayfield

Ep 6: The Dash

Following a narrow escape from the minions of The State, our heroes board their primitive land speeder and set out across the vast Vendimia Planatia. Their destination:  Haulani Regional Transit Center, to the West.  Scanning the binary frequencies of the in-dash radio, we tune in to Ceres’ flagship radio station, 1011100 FM, hosted by DJ Dwaney D.
 
Featuring Remanu Panther as DJ Dwaney D

Sincere flattery:  Oh No, Chok Rock, Sound Stylistics, Con Funk Shun, Hippo

Ep 7: 1011100 FM

Our heroes stop in the crater city of Nepen to refuel.  Walking amongst the wares and produce in the central agora, they encounter a bucket drummer.  As more bucket drummers join in, the crowd swells joyously, to immense proportions.  Is this an uprising?
 
Sincere flattery:  YouTube bucket drummers:  El Loren, Dario Rossi, David D’Amato, Matthew Pretty, Pipe Guy, Techno Hobo---  Additional field recordings from the RNC protests of 2004, NYC.  Creature sounds by the Arhanta team, flute by Rudy Nunez.

Ep 8: Bucket Drummers Of Nepen

Out there near the remote post of Heneb Crater, there is no available source of water, the precious but highly inefficient fuel used by our protagonist’s primitive land speeder, so they must dig deep.  The previous owner of this dubiously obtained craft has equipped the fuel probe with... an audio transducer?  The Captain and the Lieutenant listen to the seismic modulations emanating from nearby Ezinu.  It sounds… strange.

Featuring Zaccharie Charvolin on laptop/synth.

(Editor’s Note:  This episode was excerpted from a live performance in Ithaca NY on 2019-04-12, with Zaccharie Charvolin and Norm Scott.)

Ep 9: Seismic Modulations From Ezinu

What exactly IS Galactic Stacks about?  Come meet the Cowboy and sit for a spell.

Featuring Norm Scott as The Cowboy.
Harmonica solo by B. Clune.
Rudy Nunez as Doctor Dwarf.
Space textures improvised by Norm Scott and Camilo Nascimento.
Additional archival space textures from The Great Season Wizards (Joe Diaco, James Seidl, Camilo Nascimento); recorded 1998, Charlotte, NC.

Ep10: The Cowboy Speaks Truth

Jaded and exhausted by their mission, the Captain and the Lieutenant receive an uplifting transmission from their beloved Mission Control Commander.  Refreshed and inspired, they blast through the night, spotting the beautiful city of Haulani in the distance.   

With Carl Sagan as the Mission Control Commander
Bass by Lucas Nascimento
Synth by Camilo Nascimento
Scratch by Norm
Sincere flattery:  Laurie Anderson, DJ Food, Captain Freak and the Lunacycle Band, William Onyeabor

Ep 11:  M15510n C0n7r0l

MEANWHILE… not far from the Captain and the Lieutenant in the humble university city of Dantu, scientists have secretly uncovered an unusual secret; ancient sea life, visible only to those who possess the proper Filter.

Performed by Camilo Nascimento w/ Rudy Nunez, Bill Clune and Norm Scott.

Featuring Camilo Nascimento as MC Charm Lake and Norm Scott as the Scientist.

Arranged by Camilo N.; Beats by B.J. Capelli (BeatRoots Vol. 2); Scratch by Norm Scott.

Sincere flattery: 50 Cent, Carl Sagan, TED talk by Tabetha Boyajian, Astronomer and Astrophysicist ~ The most mysterious star in the universe , Jennifer Scully, JPL Research Scientist ~ New Findings from NASA's Dawn Mission at Dwarf Planet Ceres

S1E12: Orange In Origin

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