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About Me

The Outer Void Intrepid Sailor, is the brainchild of brothers Lachlan and Gus Franklin who, along with musical think-alike Ben Browning and other assorted friends and collaborators form a group called; theUniverse. Having spent many a childhood year together in the family car, writing spasmodic ditties to add to their very own fictional top40 Chart, the brothers - whilst driving down to family Christmas one year had a revelatory moment about their place within the universe. Out of this moment beyond the feeling of total insignificance came an idea about a project. the idea was to write, arrange and record a collection of songs with the common theme of Space. The project (affectionately referred to as the space album,) was to be an album that would somehow give a similar feeling that the brothers had felt in the car that day. The results of two years sporadic work, (in between other musical projects such as the Smallgoods, Architecture in Helsinki and The Ca$inos), culminates with 12 songs which vary in style, substance, singer, songwriter and production, to complete a working whole. A whole where pop is the format, but space is the catalyst, expanding and contracting trace elements of the last fifty years of harmony driven pop music. Sing-along melodies, down-home acoustic guitars and dinky drums meet large, overblown production, in a Prog-Pop extravaganza, with a tied-in narrative that can be taken or left in favour of the songs face value catchiness. The narrative tells the fantastical story of an average man, who is chosen to pilot a supercraft to the far reaches of deep space, to establish whether there is an end to the universeand if so, what lies beyond? The songs chart the course of the main characters psychological state, his dealings with the onboard computer, and his feelings of uncertainty, excitement, paranoia, madness and solitude as he drifts beyond the realms of knowledge and into an unfathomable galactic void. With a nostalgic nod to ELOs Time, Bowies conceptual ghost and the ambience of Brian EnoAlong with moments reminiscent of AIRs scientific playfulness, intimate sections that echo many nights spent listening to the Microphones, and the sci-fi sentiments of GRANDADDY and the FLAMING LIPS; this is an album of unhindered joy and enthusiasm by the Universe, for the Universeand everything within it. make
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Member Since: 12/18/2005
Band Website: this is basically it for now...keep you updated
Band Members: Gus Franklin, Lachlan Franklin, Ben Browning, Shags, Tara Shackell, everyone else (including you!)
Influences: György Ligeti, Sea Shanties, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Hawkwind, Conny Plank, Harmonia, ELO+Jeff Lynne in general, Dr.Dog, Karl Blau, The Harmonic Choir, Alvin Lucier, Air, the Microphones/MOUNT EERIE, The Muppet Show and Jim Henson in general, My Bloody Valentine, M83, Grandaddy, the Flaming LipS, Joe Meek, Ilitch, Dungen, Stephen Hawking, 'DARK STAR,' by John Carpenter, The Hitchikers Guide To the Galaxy, the music and sound effects on Dr.Who, Doomsday Theories, Death and Ghosts, Australiana and Space Documentaries.
Sounds Like: psychedelic experimental space folk
Record Label: Microindie Records - www.microindie.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

1st UNiVERSE show EVER!!!

Hey there friends of the Universe...We are very excited to tell you about this special show!Lachlan from the Universe has been in the USA, on a 'wandering troubadour,' tour/holiday of late, playing sh...
Posted by The Universe on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:48:00 PST

RIP György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Hungarian composer, György Ligeti, born in Romania has died at the age of 83 in his home in Vienna, Austria.Just last month whilst playing in Vienna i had pondered as to whether he was still based the...
Posted by The Universe on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:43:00 PST

FRIENDS!!! Buy the Universe for an INSANELY cheap price!

It's love month in the Universe and as a special offer to all of our MySpace friends, the good folk at microindie records have SLASHED the price of, our record 'the outer void intrepid sailor.' All yo...
Posted by The Universe on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:30:00 PST