Andi ChorleyGods of Apollo
by Rob Cope from 2019
Using archival audio from NASA, Gods Of Apollo is an improvised soundtrack to the space race!
Ian Mann wrote on the Jazz Mann
“’..Gods of Apollo’ is like a movie soundtrack, a love letter to space and music...The journey begins with the near thirteen minute “Sputnik” which commences with almost subliminal looped ‘space noises’, sonar perhaps, these providing the backdrop for Cope’s solo soprano sax ruminations. These are thoughtful and unhurried and possessed of an almost zen like calm as he probes gently and airily...Mostly though the opener is about the leader’s serpentine sax meditations, his soprano a searching beam of light in the darkness of space..."
https://www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/rob-cope-gods-of-apollo
