Add together Truth, Freedom and Humanity with the power of garage rock, the influence of the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and NEU! and the end result is NEU World Order. Four months in the making, a non-profit project and the debut self titled album Freely downloadable from the website at neuworldorder.com. The album features the voices of Cynthia McKinney, Alex Jones, John Pilger, Mario Savio amongst others, and combines to create a social commentary for the times.
The album features 7 tracks with a running time of 52 minutes and the download is a 50mb zip. The full album or individual tracks can be downloaded from www.neuworldorder.com and additionally listened to as lo-fi or hi-fi stream. As well as documenting the album subject matter, the site also doubles as an information and links resource, and includes a regularly updated independent syndicated news page.
Astral Pedestrian commented "I began this project last year prompted by Alex Jones' idea of people spreading the word in their community. I quickly discovered that trying to get people to take an interest was an impossible task for me, and I was probably making the situation worse and alienating the people I care about. It then dawned on me that what I do best is make music and so the whole idea was born. Musically it was an experiment, I have been listening to a lot of Sonic Youth & Klaus Dinger related stuff over the last few years, as well as other Krautrock such as early Kraftwerk + Can. I was interested to see how these influences would integrate into my existing music style. This project seemed ideal to explore this area without the self imposed genre boxes an artist usually has to deal with. It also acted as preparation for the 'Stumble' album I have since recorded, as well as 'Shining' the latest Astral Pedestrian release. I have been overwhelmed by the initial responses to the NWO album, there is a definite hunger for this mix of music and politics, and it gives me much more hope for a brighter future."