Welcome to the Armchair Astronaut Blog

The role of music or sound making has, since it’s most primitive origins been central in the practice of attaining ecstatic states of consciousness. Indeed, the initial purpose of making music was to induce a sense of transformation in the listener, for healing or procuring a magical result. It was a branch of shamanism, a form of sorcery.

Here at Armchair Astronaut we encourage, record, involve and collaborate to achieve the essential breakout from the mundane.

Our home is http://www.armchair-astronaut.com/ and you will find recordings, videos, texts, images, links and microscopic audio meteor dust from our expanding universe.

The home page is a tree - depicting many of the links between people and bands that are connected to our organisation and label - including the members of Wireless and Under Mother Bungalow - Paul Harrison , Ben Abbo, Marcus Ripley and Richard Miles and branching out to many others.

The site is being built and version 1 will be out on April 16th 2006 - but you can visit now and see the Front page - and play some UMB