Icy Worlds

On his EP “Icy Worlds” Andreas Baaden releases new versions of tracks from his 2022 album “Night Walk”, released on MellowJet Records. The two part long track “Icy Worlds in a Habitable Zone”, which runs over 18 minutes in total, is now available in danceable single versions and an “Alien Life Mix”. Also included is a new version of “Lunar Jam”, timed to coincide with the Artemis II lunar flight. And as a preview of the upcoming album, the EP features the “Alien Voices Mix” of the melancholic track “Circles” (a longer version has already been released on Bandcamp).

“Icy Worlds in a Habitable Zone” imagines a journey to Europa, a moon of Jupiter (Part I), and to Enceladus, a moon of Saturn (Part II). Both are icy moons and actually lie outside the habitable zone around the Sun. But the immense gravity of the two giant planets ensures that it is relatively warm beneath the ice of both moons - there are vast oceans there that are deeper than Earth’s, and in which life is suspected to exist. The search for extraterrestrial life can unite humanity and give it a shared vision.

“Lunar Jam”, born from an extended improvisation over a driving Moog sequence, leads us to Earth’s moon. “Go to the moon”, John F. Kennedy proclaimed in 1961 - and they succeeded. The Apollo spirit of that era shows: People can achieve anything if they just want to. So why not overcome hunger, environmental destruction, and disease?

“Circles” from Andreas Baaden’s upcoming, as-yet-untitled album plays with the idea that humanity comes into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. An event that would immensely expand the horizons of human imagination—and would it finally unite humanity?

Genres: Instrumental electronic music, EDM, ambient