In 2002 I surprisingly got the outstanding album Ironman (recorded in 2000) via Digital Music on my desk. At this time The Loneliest Of Creatures created by the exceptional musician Jordan Reyne and her band DR. KEVOKIAN & THE SUICIDE MACHINE was already released. Since you cannot get this wonderful soundtrack anywhere around Europe or America it took 2 years to get me hands on it. Soundtrack? Yes, it is, because The Loneliest Of Creatures tells the story of a space probe sent out into the universe in search of intelligent life. The story starts long after the probe has left earth and has gone into deep stasis, awakened to a message of unknown origin. After restating its systems it attempts to contact Houston - for permission to liaise with the message source. Houston is of course long dead. The probe never receives a reply. It eventually breaks its programming and decides to fly past the planet of the message origin sending its final message to Houston – in the vague hope that Houston might hear ...
Some of the used sounds are real. For example the sounds at the beginning and at the end of T4 – The Green Planet, the sound of Sputnik, the earth’s first satellite launched by former USSR and many of the radio and TV transmissions. While the bigger part consists of wafting interstellar soundscapes, instrumentals, sounds and samples, Jordan Reyne spends her wonderfully ethereal voice to songs like T3 – Transmissions, a song, where also strings flow in, T5 – No Carrier and T6 – The Long Goodbye, therefore T4 – The Green Planet surprises with Indian singings added by real audible electromagnetic frequencies emitted by the earth. The Loneliest Of Creatures closes with T6 – The Long Goodbye after just 45 minutes of playing time. Way too short, if you ask me!
The Loneliest Of Creatures is another wonderful and outstanding album by Jordan Reyne, reflecting the loneliness of a space probe that is willful enough – despite of a melancholic feeling back to home – to start its own way. Forward. Towards the wonderful blue planet, the message origin …