Antares: Return to the Stars, by Dr. Steam Whipple, Nikki Taylor

Antares: Return to the Stars

by Dr. Steam Whipple, Nikki Taylor

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1.	Title Sequence 01:28		buy track
2.	1647b 03:56	lyrics	buy track
hidden in a double sun another home waits for us and someday we'll be set adrift on the dark seas we'll gently sleep as the years pass by until we arrive stardust lines the winding road in the night sky yeah we're leaving this world behind the only place I've ever loved is swallowed up by the dark as we traverse the beams of light and take flight scattered like seeds on the swirl of a breeze 1647b drifting on that winding road through the night sky yeah we're leaving this world behind feel the engines, start ascending rising higher just a little more time until we’re leaving orbit feel the rockets pushing upward see the earth glow through the window in the silence just a little more time until we’re out of orbit in the darkness through the unknown
3.	Nebula Steelechase 03:54	lyrics	buy track
seems like a dream to believe that we once had a home and we called it our own oh just to roam once again through the deep golden canopies of forests and hillsides, of ocean and lands. but there's a place in the distance that beckons to us now will we make a new homeland? will we stand on solid ground? through the mists in the clearing it's coming into view can we build something better a paradise anew? can we live again? the years will move on and someday we will learn to belong to a new kind of home we will sing a new kind of song. in the land of our memories the dreams will be sweet but we won't stay for long. cause there's a place in the distance that beckons to us now will we make a new homeland? will we stand on solid ground? through the mists in the clearing it's coming into view can we build something better a paradise anew? can we live again?
4.	Soul Machine 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Feed your dreams Into the soul machine The system takes away The bitterness and pain And everybody's happier It's easier that way In brotherhood Working for the common good The edges rounded smooth To elevate the mood The workers getting more productive With each passing day Don't you see in their faces they're so serene? No more searching for answers, they're all at peace No one feels any passion or pain When everyone's the same There's no hate No cursing of the fates Nobody singled out There's never any doubt And everywhere you look that simple smile stays the same So look at the light in but a moments time The system takes away The bitterness and pain A sense of lasting satisfaction Is all that will remain Of you
5.	Home 03:49	lyrics	buy track
sometimes this place don't make much sense to me i guess everyone leaves where they're from eventually and they said it'd be a new paradise where we'd free but i don't know i don't know won't you take me home wont' you take me home i miss the blue sky and the ocean too the way the rain made the air so clean and cool they say you get used to bright yellow nights under orange moons but i don't know i don't know won't you take me home wont' you take me home
6.	Star Seeds 04:06	lyrics	buy track
captured light is all we are the distant echo of a star and everything that we need has been encoded in a seed we'll carry all the lives so carefully inside the cells await a million years of dreams all our history we are the seedlings in the sky ah haha ah hah how can life live again find a refuge if we can find a home and call it ours Live forever in the stars hear an echo from another time read a message from a million other lives carried on the light
7.	Cowhide 01:51		buy track

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Antares: Return to the Stars - EP and future travelogue.
A short film for your imagination: (no actual film used)

Overview:
Someday, humanity will face the need to leave earth, find other habitable worlds, and seed the stars with a new civilization. Over the last year, Dr. Steam Whipple and Nikki Taylor envisioned what this journey will feel like to the brave first citizens of our new world.
Program:
1. Title Sequence – A grainy color washed image of a planet and moon zoom in from outside the galaxy.
(Actual proximity a few feet away) The proportions and paper Mache construction reveal wonder and low budge charm; guide strings are visible, irregular hand guided orbits.

2. 1647b - A giant planet orbiting two suns, the next destination for the survival of the human race, we get in the rocket and take off.

3. Nebula Steeplechase - The first steps onto the new planet, a mix of wonder, homesickness, and possibility.

4. Soul Machine - The new civilization devolves into another soulless, mechanistic world, recreating the problems we were trying to leave behind.

5. Home - in which we realize the new planet isn't everything it was supposed to be, or what the brochures promised.

6. Starseeds - the collected DNA of all of Earth's creatures can fit into the cargo space of one spaceship. maybe it's time to pack it all in and take off again.

7. Credits – Zoom out from a strange world, that looks sort of like a 1960’s western, leathery faced cigar chomping poncho wearing figure sits atop a 6 legged horse/insect, looking up to see a distant cloud of exhaust from a rocket leaving.

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released May 11, 2022

Ship’s Captains:

Capt. Nikki Taylor
Capt. Dr. Steam Whipple

Additional Navigation:
Sgt. Robin MacMillan
Sgt. Ronen Itzik
Cpl. Teddy Kumpel
PFC. Clifford Lane
Boarding Music: Matthew Aidekman
Artwork by: Vitaly Ovsiannikov
Projections by: Drippy Eye
Video editing: Dylan Bowman

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