Giants of Discovery: And It's Goodnight From The Human Race - Translucent Red Vinyl (Vinyl LP)

Translucent red vinyl. Giants of Discovery is the alias of Kevin Downey. The origins of And It's Goodnight From The Human Race can be traced to a session that Downey recorded for The Magic Window, Steven Anderson's radio show. Titled Next Stop, The Stars, his set was conceived as a family vacation where the sightseeing included the rings of Saturn and the vastness of Jupiter, all seen from the cockpit of a small recreational spaceship. The tracks captured that sense cosmic wonderment that had characterized the 1950s Space Race and the imaginations of a whole generation. The tracks from Downey's Magic Window session form the first four tracks on And It's Goodnight From The Human Race. Between Next Stop, The Stars and this album, Downey's outlook changed. As I began writing the other tracks the theme of the album definitely took a darker turn, he says. Instead of a happy 'space family' traversing the Solar System, I instead imagined the remnants of the human race that had been forced to