Over the past few years, we’ve been digging into our catalog, making new mixes and mashups for our live performances. It’s been a lot of fun exploring the threads that connect all of the music we’ve made together. We’re excited to share the highlights of these musical collages with you throughout 2020 with a series we're calling “Visions Tapes”!

Listen on all platforms: https://smarturl.it/VisionTapes

Upcoming events + festivals: https://sts9.com/tour.html

Get tickets for our 5-night 2020 Visions New Year's run in Atlanta: https://sts9.com/2020visions

Listen to all of our live shows: https://sts9.bandcamp.com

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WTDS Reprise > Tooth ⊚ [Visions Tapes]

20 years before the emergence of STS9, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on a mission to the farthest reaches of the solar system and beyond. Each of these probes was equipped with identical Golden Records, special messages attached to what Carl Sagan called “a bottle launched into the cosmic ocean.” They contained numerous images and sounds from throughout the world, pieces of music from various cultures, a map identifying the location of our planet, and other information for whomever, or whatever, might find them.

While the Golden Records included greetings in 59 languages, they made no mention of nations and borders, wars and rivalries, or anything else that divides us. What they did mention was life, love, peace, birth--the things that bind us to one another and to the planet we call home. 

The Universe Inside is a reflection of this message. It is a story about human identity and the magical truth of who we are, where we’re going, and our place in the Universe. It says we are one, made of stardust and the forces of nature that evolved over billions of years. Connected by the sun, moon and stars, we are the living, breathing conscience of the Universe. 

"We are one, made from dust of the stars / down here we bear the weight of the pain and the scars / just want to live with nothing to hide / every one of us a universe inside."