Spaceman Far Away from Home

album name: Spaceman Far Away from Home
band name: by Aleksi Eeben

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1.	Spaceman's Little Expedition 03:21	download
2.	Spaceman's Small Step 02:27	download
3.	Spaceman's Second Expedition 04:10	download
4.	Spaceman Meets the Robots 03:20	download
5.	Spaceman's Low 02:40	download
6.	Spaceman's Interlude 03:20	download
7.	Spaceman Far Away from Home 07:12	download
8.	Spaceman Returns to Earth 03:14	download
9.	Spaceman and Spacewoman 03:38	download
10.	Spaceman Salutes Commodore 03:47	download

about: Far away, John and his robot were sailing on the backs of star-beams. Fifty light-years or so in their cylindrical spaceship. Robot said he liked the way the star's light bounced off the red planet, a giant one, on the port side. Like shimmery little fairy dances circling around their travels through the void. John smiled and lifted his glass of space-juice in an ancient gesture of comradeship. Aye, that's life at it's best, he reckoned.

After three more days of travel John and his robot arrived at Destination 34. A large moon around the fourth planet of the system. A jolly wee bouncy kind of rock with scampering little bacteria and small fish-like creatures swimming in the deep dark lakes. Some of them had fluorescent colours and shone brightly and merrily. Some of them were mating, some of them were jiggling, some of them were just having a party. Robot blinked his lights in response and several of the lifeforms twirled round him, curious. He did not seem like a proto-fish. He was all hard and jagged. Like a rock of some kind. John patted him. They'll understand one day, he reassured.

Inside one of the caves was a dark slithery plant, waving slightly with the drifts, as if to a distant melody. She beckoned to the travellers and they floated to investigate, transfixed. Her many hands swayed erotically. Her deep colours changed with every move. She gently touched John's cheek as he looked closely, with robot soon behind. He kissed her leaf-wrist and bid her good bye, for their journeys must go on.

Back in their spaceship John sighed. Robot was a good companion but still his life missed something. A home to come to. An arm to stroke. Lips to kiss. Hair to feel. Of all the wonders in the universe he had seen, no wonder would replace that simple existence. Robot shut down for the night. The computers rattled on. John looked out into the deep, deep darkness and its millions of sparkling lights. Lives. He fell asleep holding their hands as the spaceship zoomed on and on into the empty unknown.
credits: released 01 June 2006
FI-AEE-06-00001 - 00010 (AEECD 1)

Cover art by Mikael Backlund

Spaceman salutes Commodore recorded from Commodore 64 by Jarkko Lehti

Short story 'Adventures of Spaceman John' by Kristoffer Lawson
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