Artist: Robert Schroeder
Tracklist:
1. Search Direction ... 4:44
2. Receiving Signals . 8:26
3. Lift Off To the Galaxy..3:19
4. 1050 Mill.Lightyears.. 4:24
5. Galaxie Cygnus-A ..10:03
6. Constellation Swan.. 6:36
7. Interstellar Quasars.12:49
Robert is happy, because he can now present the CD version of the legendary Galaxy Cygnus-A. And he is also happy, because this CD is a re-recording which sounds much better than the Original. But not different! Galaxy Cygnus-A is still Galaxy Cygnus-A, each tone and atmosphere is exactly copied, only the production sound is much more dynamic and clear.
Nothing of the composition is changed or lost, but there are something surprising and new additional. So for example the main theme is much more integrated in the whole work. Melodies from the first title are been included in other tracks too. This was also done in the Original version, but now it is much better worked out.
The treatment sounds equal, nothing from the authentic admission is lost, but it sounds all somewhat more fully, more approximately, more clearly. It is still an exciting adventure journey on the way to the far Galaxy Cygnus-A. A musically SF-history, which produces fantasy pictures with the listener.
For those who are not familiar with it: Galaxy Cygnus-A was already recorded and live performed in 1982 as contribution to the world well known ARS Electronica in Linz/Austria (with TV-transmission in Austria and FRG and a special transmission in "Aspekte") and published as LP on the IC label, at that time owned by Klaus Schulze.
Galaxy Cygnus-A was developed on the basis of received signals (acoustically white noise) from the 1.05 billion light-years removed radio galaxy Cygnus-A in the constellation swan. Caught and noted were these signals with the worldwide largest mobile radio telescope of the Max-Planck-Institute in Effelsberg (Eifel, FRG). These signals were the basic and inspiration for Schroeders galactic work - finest traditional electronic music.
On the occasion of the world known ARS-Electronica (Linz / Austria) the LP GALAXY CYGNUS A was produced and published in 1982. GALAXY CYGNUS A was also the title of a multi-media show, an optical-acoustic event with look in the space, which Robert Schroeder had performed for the first time, together with a German SF-author, in 1982 on the ARS-Electronica in Linz (with TV transference in Austria and the FRG).
GALAXY CYGNUS A is an interpretation and composition to the "noises" of the radio-galaxy of the same name in the sign of the zodiac swan. The "white noises" of these 1.05 milliard light years distant radio-galaxy were received with the worldwide biggest movable radio telescope in mountain Effelsberg/ Eifel / FRG and was taped. They served as a base and inspiration for Schroeder's galactical work ... traditional electronic music of the finest kind.
For Schroeder this was the first project abroad.
The LP Galaxy Cygnus A became in 26. Sept.1982 on the occasion of the ARS-Electronica in Linz Austria performed for the first time (with TV transfer in Austria and the FRG and a special broadcasting of the TV broadcasting "aspecte").
