Digital download here from Bandcamp. Vinyl version coming soon on Broken Clover Records!

This Sagan consists of: Blevin Blectum, Jay Lesser and Wobbly —three artists from the San Francisco Bay Area’s legendarily weird electronic music scene who are also members of Blectum From Blechdom, Matmos, Thurston Moore Group and Negativland, coming together in their shared love of Space. Fifteen years in the making, a symphony as heard by a satellite hurtling through every civilized universe, erasing the boundaries between information and music.

A detailed interview with the members of Sagan.

ALBUM REVIEWS:

You can get away with a lot of weirdness if you deliver it in the context of a groove. On its second album in fifteen years, avant-post-rock supergroup Sagan (whose members have spent their careers in and around ensembles and artists like Blechdom, Negativland, Fred Frith, Huun-Huur-Tu, and the Thurston Moore Group) has created a strange but charming tribute to “the early decades of space travel and the High Frontier.” The music is paradoxically dense but light, filled with bleeps and bloops and glitches and squawks all tied together by a subtle but steady rhythmic framework. While one might expect music on a space-travel theme to be spacious and open, Sagan goes the other direction: in the crowded welter of sounds you’ll hear hints of 1950s sci-fi movie music, nods to 1970s Krautrock, and sudden detours into lovely clouds of ambience. The combination of subtle underlying structure and utter unpredictability makes Anti-Ark an unusually compelling album. - CD HOTLIST

The rhythms and melodies don't feel otherworldly, they have the warmth and familiarity of flesh from Earth. and the technology is all in service of our human desire to touch the sky. These are messages to the stars that you're going to want to hear, some truly wonderful stuff. - ENDAURAL