Bocuma - Orphans Of The Sky (2015)

Bocuma is the performance name of Carlow based artist Martin Millar, who has just released his new album, Orphans of the Sky. The album is complimented with a series of impressive artwork pieces by Millar himself, including the album cover, with the inspiration behind both music and art coming from an unusual and interesting source. Aside from childhood nostalgia (which hit me myself while listening to certain tracks, more on that later), Bocuma explains he was; "Influenced by the animation of the same name ‘Orphans of the Sky’ originally aired on RTÉ2 in 1978 as a test screener before the channel was officially launched. Unfortunately not many people got to see (or even remember) it in its original form. To this day nothing has survived from the original 13 minute animation. This album came together with the intentions of trying to recreate the vibe and feel that I can remember hearing from the original score as a kid."

Tracklist:

01. They Walked Like Men
02. Black Sea of Trees
03. Faded Sun
04. The Pastel City
05. Kodama
06. Times Last Gift
07. Orphans of the Sky
08. Lonesome Shadows
09. Beyond Tomorrow
10. Solitary Experiment
11. Maybe They Are Here
12. Half Past Human
13. Super-Sized Smokescreen In My Dreams
14. Recalled To Life
15. Dynatron Mission
16. The Breathing Method
17. Chronos
18. Revolt 86
19. M-brane Theory
20. Thoughtless Afternoon
21. Down to a Sunless Sea