Name: Discovery (John Glenn's adventure)-w.Gamma Leonis
Duration: 4 min 5 s
Channel: Roberto Canone
Description: License options are available for this song. Spacey and dreamy, this is a collaboration between The Wimshurst's Machine, John Worsley and Lonesome Dave of Gamma Leonis. Electronica, effects and a true story, a dream of adventure. Reached #1 in Other Alternative chart, #4 Alternative!

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Spacey and dreamy, this is a collaboration between The Wimshurst's Machine, John Worsley and Lonesome Dave of Gamma Leonis. Electronica, effects and a true story, a dream of adventure. Reached #1 in Other Alternative chart, #4 Alternative!

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The Wimshurst's Machine

An italian 8 members chillout orchestra who plays a mix of electronic and acoustic chillout music with ambient, jazz and new age influences.

"...It is easy to imagine yourself peacefully lounging in a scenic land while listening to these compositions, which use a wide array of acoustic instrumentation backed by ambient electronica." : we reached (#26 overall) on iTunes Italian online music store between january 6 and 13, 2005 (since january, official iTunes release date, never went out from the Top100), and had a song (, our 1st CD and , our 2nd one. Check out our link section for a direct link on those albums pages on iTunes! as "Best Instrumental Artist"! Thank you, everyone, for this result! :-)

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Other Alternative

Charts

Peak #4

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Roberto Canone

Rights

2004 by The Wimshurst's Machine

Uploaded

October 01, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:05

Story behind the song

When first we started to work on this song, was just a theme on a keyboard, wrote down by Roberto (his first song wrote for TWM). 
But we felt something was still missing, even after we decided to place this spacey, dreamy song in it's right place: space. We chose to tell a "true fairy tale", the true story of a veteran astronaut who returned in space after so many time, living again it's dream. 
But still something was still missing, we were a bit "stuck", so we asked to our good friends "Gamma Leonis" (formerly "Solar Wind"), Lonesome Dave and John Worsley, if they had some idea with this song. And what you may hear here is the result. This song is destinated to our new incoming album, "The Alchemist".

Lyrics

Ride a flame into the sky
Looking back from up on high
The arrow streaks into the blue
A miracle, to once more view
An afternoon fading to a blanket of stars

The pioneer returns once more
With no fear of what’s in store
From Friendship 7’s plunge to the sea
to this voyage of Discovery
The hero you were is the hero you are.



"DISCOVERY (John Glenn's Adventure)"
Highest charts position: # 4 (40,070 songs currently listed in Alternative).
Highest charts position in subgenre: # 1 (5,340 songs currently listed in Alternative > Other Alternative)!

Keyboards: Roberto Canone
Singing voice: John Worsley
Bass guitar & electric guitar: Lonesome Dave
Eb Baritone saxophone: Augusto Chiarle 
Acoustic drums: Massimiliano Baudissard
Electronics, effects, engineering and programming: Augusto Chiarle
Lyrics: Dave Long

John Glenn's voice & NASA effects/voices: Black Box (under regular license).