I've been playing catch up recently with a group called Lunar Dunes- they had a track on Collen Cosmo Murphy's Balearic Breakfast 2 compilation, released in June 2023. A friend then tipped me off to two albums by them, From Above (from 2007) and Galaxsea (from 2011). They formed in West London with members coming from Cornershop, Transglobal Underground and Natacha Atlas's band, a three piece that expanded to become a six piece inspired by the cosmische sounds of West Germany in the 1960s and 70s, making music that circles around space rock, ambient, dub, global and post- jazz.
Off World Beacon was the closing track on Galaxsea. It fades in slowly with shakers and sighs, and a guitar line picking out some sparkles. A piano joins in, the notes played high up with the right hand, all very weightless and floaty. Gradually Off World Beacon gathers pace with drums and more instruments, the guitar becoming more gnarly, a voice way off in the distance, more intensity, more space rock, on and on for over seven minutes.
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