Entropy

Last week, Nigel Stanford released Entropy, the second track from his Solar Echoes double album, on YouTube.

A cinematic joyride for the ears, the song’s brisk rhythm section opens the hangar doors and hurries you to the launch pad under the watchful gaze of a rising sun. An acoustic guitar paints a scene of green fields surrounding the towering gantry, making ready for your departure. [1:14]

A crescendoing electric guitar ushers in the drum section, propelling you into the stars with memories of green fields trailing in your wake, the ever-present daylight following you far above the mesosphere and into the black. [2:20]

Awash in our celestial lighthouse’s acoustic rays, we sling through the dancing gods of old, cutting in at full throttle, to borrow speed and add it to our own, as we momentarily join their eternal waltz among the stars. [3:25]

Now at speed, we cut the engines [4:27] and glide on glassy ivory on our approach to Jupiter. We close in and skim the gentle giant’s surface, gently dipping our percussive toes in its roiling clouds [6:25] before bidding it a final farewell on our one-way trip into the unknown.