Another chapter in my Mars story. The protagonists have landed on mars and reach their martian habitat.

I wanted to touch a few different points in this song.. 

Firstly, after months in zero gravity, the astronauts suffer from muscle and bone atrophy, making them weak. 

Secondly, while watching NASA's Insight landing, I was fascinated with the engineers which were anxiously watching their monitors for progress on the mission, with the knowledge that the landing was already over. Speed-of-light latency meant they just didn't know the result yet as communications take between 6 to 40 minutes depending on the relative position of Earth and Mars. So all they could do was watch and hope everything went ok.

Thirdly, a habitat would have to be sent, assembled and verified before a manned mission could be performed. A pressurized area of breathable atmosphere, with radiation shielding to protect from cosmic rays. 

Previously in this story:
https://soundcloud.com/gunnarsletta/liftoff
https://soundcloud.com/gunnarsletta/thegreatestadventure
https://soundcloud.com/gunnarsletta/sol
https://soundcloud.com/gunnarsletta/beyond-the-edge
https://soundcloud.com/gunnarsletta/home

Lyrics:

Feeling the pull from below
We try to rise, on our withered bones.. But..
No strength remains.. yet
we push on forward into the gate
We reach out and open the door
and stare out into the wasteland

Making our way across the scarlet dunes
Through sand and stone in this unfamiliar hue
And up ahead
We see the place where we are gonna stay

With the journey now behind us we are here, on this world.
And hand in hand we walk across the land
to our home..

Hunched over their mission screens, but they won't know our fate, for a while
Staring through their drying eyes as they watch the counter ticking down..
But soon, they'll know 
That humankind is walking on Mars!

A burrow in the ground
A shield of stone,
to shelter us from rays from high above
A pocket of the earthlike
with air to surround us
so we can catch our breath
Where we can breathe 

Sent up in seasons passed 
Built by machines so we could 
Move right in 
Now that we
Are here 

With the journey now behind us we are here, on this world.
And hand in hand we walk across the land
to our home..

First Landing

After All This Rain

Ruby Road - Dance On My Own
Lyrics and voice by Mira @ruby-road
Music and production by @vasiliy-vaskeez

Ruby Road - Dance On My Own

Hoping for the sunshine 
Aiming to the stars
Looking for a sure sign
Not getting very far

Flying through the valley
in the land of an older dream
surrounded by the memories
of another time and scene

And we run, we run away
run away from here
And I throw, I throw away
throw away my fear


Now the waves crash down around us
and the ship is torn to sea
so the captains meet to discuss
what the new course now will be

Sights set in the moonlight
for the planets in the sky
Together in the dark night
Until the storm passes by

And we lay, lay and wait
wait for the day

And we're stayin, we're stayin late
late for the pay
V7.05

Cass D Vocals, Guitar
Rock S. Backing Vocals, Guitar, some Keys
Markus W. Bass
Jammin James Drums
Photo by Snowfall the Cat
Full Version here: https://youtu.be/cL7G798h_5g

Old Dream

Beneath The Mountains

Far Older Power

Curvaceous saxophone courtesy of Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
Video: https://youtu.be/vNYwDHQgydM

You wake, with senses opaque, to the fuse of your muse, confused by the shape of things that have gone, departed, confined, but with saccharine grief left behind, and the certainty that you find in the memory banks of the past, you contrast with the doubts and the fear of what horrors are yet to appear, but the now and the here is a shape that you cannot control, and it shifts and it squirms as you grasp to try and make sense of the present tense

And it takes all your nerve to flatten the area under the curve
And it takes all your nerve to flatten the area under the curve

The Curve

Guitars, Bass, Djembe & Cowbell By Martin Reed,
Flute By The Inspirational Soumya Mondal,  www.facebook.com/soumya.mondal.503645
Produced My Martin Reed.

The Way Is In The Heart With Soumya Mondel

Uploaded with AudioShare app - http://kymatica.com/audioshare

aduyi (remastered)

Also on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/CTVgMp9GYFQ

The Sage (2020, David Bell)

There's a Stranger, in the night
passing by, in the cold moonlight

A sense of wisdom, he has the sight
In these times that we live it's hard to tell
what's wrong from what is right

Can you tell me the answer, my friend?
The life we've known is coming to an end
So much has changed, been re-arranged, can't tell dark from light
Can you tell me the answer, my friend?

Solo

Can you tell me the answer, my friend?
In these times that we live it's hard to tell, 
what's wrong from what is right
What was up is down, what was lost is found, can't tell dark from light

Can you tell me the answer, my friend?
Can you tell me the answer, my friend?
Can you tell me the answer, my friend?

Outro

The Sage

«Reminiscence». 1987. Op.09.

Monkey Blood Lowdown made an excellent remix of my song
...and Beyond.
It's a whole new take of the song with a lot of new ingredients and still You hear the original.

MBL https://soundcloud.com/monkeybloodlowdown
Drums, bass, keys and the overall production.

nic - guitars, bells, congas, synths and vocals

The original https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic/and-beyond

...and Beyond

And Beyond - MBL remix

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