Let the Moment Land, by Cosmonaut On Vacation

Let the Moment Land

by Cosmonaut On Vacation

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1.	Rundown at Sundown 02:35	buy track
2.	Alright If We Fight 04:17	buy track
3.	Dirty World 03:04	buy track
4.	Float Song 05:27	buy track
5.	The Little Things 02:20	buy track
6.	We Could Use a High Horse 03:26	buy track
7.	Hallo(w) Gallo(w) 06:42	buy track
8.	Up to Me 02:49	buy track
9.	Underneath the Sun 04:26	buy track
10.	Wild 04:10	buy track

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Cosmonaut on Vacation is space-pop a.k.a echo-ey and melodic rock-and-roll played loud and proud. Full stop.

LET THE MOMENT LAND is born from the wildly inventive, collaborative world of the Birmingham, Alabama Indie rock scene. In May 2011, Greg Slamen, formerly of Through the Sparks and Stateside, decided to start his own band and his own brand of spaced-out, psychedelic rock and roll. Influenced by the whimsy of the Kinks, attitude of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, a Stone Roses swagger and the melodic arrangements of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Slamen twisted seemingly simple chords into songs that ring fresh and inspired. He's not trying to reinvent the wheel. He just wants to drive the goddamn thing until they fall off.

Like his Through The Sparks brethren, Slamen can be a studio rat. "I love recording, even if it's stressful at times. I recorded a few tracks at [Les] Nuby's (Vulture Whale) Ol' Elegante [studio] and a few more at Jody Nelson's (Through The Sparks / Dorado) Alamalibu, and a couple of the tracks -- those electronic numbers -- I did those on my laptop. [The recording process] was the fun part for sure. It's the mixing and mastering that was excruciatingly but necessarily tedious."

“Les Nuby was very supportive from the beginning when I told him about this idea that I wanted to make a solo record. He's been a sounding board and encouraging voice throughout the process of getting this record together-- everything from advice on the demos, to engineering some of the songs, to giving me feedback on the masters when I was done with the record. The same is true of Jody Nelson. And I should mention Shawn Avery. He's got the ears and some wild ideas about production. He definitely had some influence on the way this thing sounded.” Slamen found inspiration in the feedback, and, as he puts it, “decided to take my record a bit more seriously after that. Like pizza boxes, empty beer bottles, and lots of standing around in my underwear mixing and doing retakes instead of sleeping. “

This attention gave forth a bizarre, crunchy, spacey throwback of a record – an album from the time when albums mattered. The sounds of a strange journey, as one might imagine if a mission-weary 1980s Cosmonaut took a much needed vacation in a Adriatic beach town. Come along – it is going to be fun.

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released April 23, 2013

Cosmonaut on Vacation is:
Greg Slamen – vox, guitars, bass guitar, synths
Zach Evans – drums

Additional Guests:
Shawn Avery – bass guitar on tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, and 9
Joseph Nelson – electric guitar on tracks 3 and 8; keys and noise on tracks 7 and 9.
James Brangle – electric guitar on track 7 and 9.
Karsten Propper – backing vox on tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, and 9; whistling on track 6
Nikolaus Mimikakis – electric guitar on track 3

All songs written by Greg Slamen ©2013 except track 7 written by Dinger, Rother, et al.

Engineers: Joseph Nelson, Lester Nuby, Greg Slamen
Tracks 2 and 3 recorded at Ol’ Elegante, Homewood, Ala.
Tracks 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 recorded at Alamalibu, Birmingham, Ala.

Mixed and Mastered by Greg Slamen

Cover Design by Greg Slamen
Art Direction and Photography by Shawn Avery

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Cosmonaut On Vacation Birmingham, Alabama

Cosmonaut On Vacation is a space rock/psych synthy thing. I live in Birmingham, AL, USA.

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