Observers is the new project from Martin Kennedy (All India Radio, Steve Kilbey). Debut album 'The Age of the Machine Entities' is an atmospheric and melodic metal reimagining of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke's classic 2001 A Space Odyssey.
- NPR New Music Friday - March 8 2024
- ABC TV RAGE Wild One pick - 24 Jan 2024
- "This should be celebrated for the unique vision that it is. This goes beyond music for me. This is transcendence" - Reverend Fuzzcut
- "Spacey and doomy" 3 stars - Sea of Tranquility
- "Glorious instrumental reimagining of 2001: ASpace Odyssey...teeth-rattling crunch that’s as heavy as anything served up by the similarly intergalactically minded prog metal travellers Gojira" - Prog UK March 2024
- "A sprawling space-metal epic in its own regard, incorporating experience with their genre-spanning disregard for accordance to fashion a bold sound that’s worthy of standing in proximity to the science fiction masterpiece" - 8/10 Distorted Sound
- "Spacey and stoner yet has a futuristic, ominous vibe" - Cutting Edge Metal
Credits
Martin Kennedy - guitars, synths & soundscapes
Chris Bohm - drums
Rich Gray - Bass
GUESTS
Joao Corceiro - solos on Moon Doom, Into The Eye, The Star Child
Joe Haley - solo on Pod Bay Doors
Jake Weber - solo on Strange and Beautiful
Ido Romano - Ney on Metaphor II
Breno Machado - solos on Frank Poole's Dream, The Narrow Way Part II
Album art by Ryan T Hancock
All songs written by Martin Kennedy except The Narrow Way Part II written by David Gilmour
Mixed by Joe Haley at Crawlspace
Mastered by Joe Carra at Crystal
Thanks Mark and Ben, Jon and Helena, Clint at RedTape Pictures.
Made possible by my Ultimate Patrons:
Andrew Curtis
Carl Koontz
Christiaan Verheij
Christian Leigh
Erick Gantt
I Ask No One® with Kevin Re LoVullo
Jamie
Jeremy
Jim
Karl Scutt
Kevyn Marshall
Michael Holmes
Michael Schmidt
Paul Webb
Randy LeMasters
Rhonda Koontz
Robert f. Blumschein
Sean Fredrick
Thompson Terry
Todd Norman
Contribution credit links on Ampwall
