Ice8, thanks for this. B4 Milky Way, for example, is a good tune, with interesting development and progression of sounds. There are other atmospheric, evocative pieces too like tracks A1 and A2. ... This is actually a pretty interesting record, thematically, in its apparent conception. The entire album, looking at the titles and listening to it for a bit, seems like it may have been conceived as, in some way, portraying a large story arc, a broad progression of events cast out over a long time period, or even eternity. Starting with "The Mystic Dream" and arriving at the end at "Digital Dots". Tracks A1-A5, at least by their titles, seem to suggest possibly some loose similarity to the broad outline of events depicted in Genesis (creation) and Exodus (freedom, a new life (or way or code of living), and journey to the promised land). Track A6 (the music and its title) might perhaps be interpreted a certain way, given the preceding context (think also of a film made in 1973 with the word "Superstar" in the title depicting events in the first century AD). And then, there seems to be a long jump forwards in time, starting at B1, the things referenced could be in the more recent past (B1 Swiftness - perhaps the "enlightenment" and industrial revolution and aftermath, development of technology, mechanization, automation, ... leading to the "space" age - Yuri Gagarin, the moon landing, space shuttle, satellites, and onwards out into space), and from there the album may go on to depict glimpses into some possible/envisioned future, going far out into space (B2 "Star Probe"), with artificially created sentient beings (B3 Robot Romp), and then further out into and beyond the Milky Way (B4) ... and then who knows what ... ultimately arriving at "Digital Dots" (B5) which may possibly refer to some phenomenon of quantum physics related to subatomic particles, time, and gravity, perhaps other dimensions, wherein or through which (somehow) all returns, in a way, back to the start, A1 ... The Mystic Dream, that started it all - the creation, the created, and the journey forwards to ....? And so on. Eternally recurring (possibly in the Nietzschean sense or perhaps more in the direction of neo-Platonism and the totally transcendent "One", or yet again in some sense not yet fully known).
Perhaps in rough outline:
A1. The Mystic Dream } Conception, creation of universe
A2. Daybreak } The first day
A3. Deliverance } Freedom from bondage
A4. New Life } The law, a new way of living
A5. The Promised Land } Fullfilment, arriving in the land
A6. The Age of the Superstar } See notes above
B1. Swiftness } Development of technology, mechanization
B2. Star Probe } The journey out into space
B3. Robot Romp } Creation of artifical intelligence
B4. Milky Way } Journey beyond our galaxy
B5. Digital Dots } Cosmic return, metaphysics, transcending time and space
Maybe I'm engaging in too much eisegesis here? In any case, thanks, Ice8.
If anyone has a good scan of the back cover, that would be great if you could post it here. A description of the tracks, if any, would be interesting to see. Thanks, again.
