SURPRISE!!!

Hey There! Long time no see, hear, etc...

It's Peter Marchese , Remember me? No? I didn't think so. Maybe I could give you a little refresher? Or maybe an introduction? Some of you might remember me from a couple of long running Seattle beat combos including Tokyoidaho (tokyoidaho.bandcamp.com) and Voyager One (voyagerone.bandcamp.com). Or, for those of you with access to a wayback machine , maybe even from playing guitar in Las Vegas chancers Secret Sanity, and some of you might not recall any of this. It matters not!

SOME of you may ALSO remember that I left Seattle and playing in these aforementioned beat combos back in 2017 for the considerably sunnier climes of St. Petersburg, Florida, but that's really only the partial truth. I guess I have some explaining to do then, don't I?

Ok, while it IS true that my small family and I DID set up shop in lovely St. Pete. , shortly afterward I was whisked directly to Cape Canaveral, and, as part of an obscure, underfunded and experimental NASA program, launched aboard a class XVI rocket on a deep space trajectory straight to the unknown.

The purpose of this mission is to study the effects of deep space travel on the psyche of the human musician, and to see what types of music might be produced in this strange new environment. So, to this end I have been furnished with a small array of vintage/modern instruments (See Fig.4) and given simple instructions to proceed as normal with music creation, and back on Earth NASA would monitor vital signs and any significant psychological changes I might experience via a wearable called the "Energy Visor" (See Fig.5) Stupid name, right? I have to wear it when I make music, and that's what provides all of the valuable(?) data to the Lab coats back on Earth. (See Fig.1)

I am also required to submit any and all music that I might create out here to the central computer for analysis and cataloging. And, after that is complete (10-12 weeks), I am free to upload it to the public.
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The first of these dispatches was uploaded today.

"But how did YOU get this gig anyway?" I can hear you saying. "You're hardly an ASTRONAUT!" " You get sick on a BOAT!" Hehe, that's true, funnily enough I wasn't NASA's first choice for this mission, (nor the 3,000th), but after going through the entire NASA Rolodex there were still no takers, and ESPECIALLY SO when they found out there would be LITTLE TO NO PUBLICITY! "So, how did they finally settle on YOU then?" I can hear you asking. Well, it wasn't really scientific at all. One day they were goofing around at HQ and Googled "Voyager One" and I was the first music related person to pop-up! So random!

"But what about your FAMILY?" I can sense you wondering, "You didn't just LEAVE THEM BEHIND FOR THIS IDIOTIC ENDEAVOR DID YOU?!!!" Take it easy! Take it easy! Did I not mention the Transporter? I didn't? Well, there is one. Just picture the one off of the 60's Star Trek, only with WAY MORE TREMELO! Using it to travel back and forth is like floating on a swiftly moving current the viscosity of raspberry jelly (or maybe seedless preserves) as millions of dayglo stars rush past your face, all whilst listening to some kind of colossal Spacemen 3 meets Ravi Shankar type drone for precisely 47 and a three-quarter minutes, and then BAM!!!!! There you are back on your own couch at home ABSOLUTELY COVERED IN GLITTER!

"Alright, so this is getting REALLY long-winded and EXTREMELY ridiculous." I can hear you saying to yourselves, "Where are we even GOING with all of this?" Well, I guess this backstory is my convoluted and roundabout way of announcing my new musical project called.......
Peter and the Pulsars!

Hear it at....
(peterandthepulsars.bandcamp.com)

Listen, It's either all THIS nonsense, OR it's...

"Mildly eccentric Middle-aged Dad makes Minimalist Synthwave and other Shoegazy Art-Pop experiments for himself and a handful of interested individuals."

I KNOW which story I prefer!

In either case, Welcome to the DEEP SPACE KITCHENETTE!

STIR IT UP!

Contact : peterandthepulsars@gmail.com
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