The Mothership was built in late 2005 with the aspiration of creating a massively arranged space-rock concept album. In April 2006, they performed the first version of "The Eleven Dimensional Symphony" live at the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder, earning a nod from Denver's Westword for "Best Concept Album Performance." Nearly a year later, Mothership released The Eleven Dimensional Symphony, transporting listeners into the post-apocalyptic psychedelic realm of mystery and self-discovery they call "The Multiverse."
Best Concept-Album Performance
Mothership
Fiske Planetarium
April 22, 2006
(Westword's Best of Denver 2006)
When drummer James Barone told his friends about this seemingly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play a show at a planetarium, the very idea fired up their collective imaginations. Luckily, his band, Mothership, was fully capable of meeting the expectations. The act had already written an epic song cycle in the vein of Hawkwind's classic Hall of the Mountain Grill, which seemed perfectly suited for presentation in such a venue. The story revolves around a space-faring young man who experiences the joys and horrors of interstellar travel and going where no human has gone before. Despite the high concept and sci-fi-movie premise, the tunes were visionary exercises in songcraft and the cinematic use of sound. And seeing the visuals projected onto Fiske Planetarium's curved screen was one of those experiences that burns itself into your memory forever.
Denver's Westword "Critic's Choice" By Tuyet Nguyen
"Call it a revival, a tribute, a throwback, whatever; any synonym will fill the space, but it won't really say anything. Music is a vast universe, each band a tiny blinking light, collectively influencing any who would gaze into the infinite black sky. So to call an act such as Mothership derivative is not inaccurate, but foolishly unnecessary. The group -- which comprises the anomalously named guitarists Shandacron, Bartleby and Bangie Schuxorz, drummer Jables, bassist Valuebert and flutist Kalebe Dance -- makes ethereal and gossamer pop music that lilts at overindulgent shoegazer rock. But there's something decidedly un-modern about Mothership. Whereas outfits such as Dead Meadow or Kinski are refashioning the space-rock genre, Mothership is instead like a late-'60s psych-rock band that never was; it's got more in common with Dave Brock than with Anton Newcombe."
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