JON O'BERGH: Songs from Other Planets

Jon O'Bergh

Songs from Other Planets

© 2004 Jon O'Bergh (825346409726)

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A cyberjazz blend of alien voices, ambient textures and extraterrestrial grooves

tracks

1 Nexis 6
2 First Interlude
3 The Moons of Sarna
4 Second Interlude
5 Hypnoticon
6 Harmonic Vibrations of the Tau
7 G 51-15
8 The F-i Factor
9 Third Interlude
10 Zero Gravity
11 Ceruvean Twilight
12 Orbiting Aldebaran
13 The Return of Planet X
14 Epsilon Eridani
15 Clouds of Etherea

notes

Recording artist Jon O'Bergh has gone in a daring new musical direction with his fifth CD release, "Songs from Other Planets." "This music is unlike anything else you've ever heard," O'Bergh explains. "It's like taking a cosmic voyage out of this world."

O'Bergh describes the music as a cyberjazz blend of alien voices, ambient textures and extraterrestrial grooves. Drawing on influences as diverse as New Age, world beat, sci-fi, and Brazilian nuevo bossa nova, the music manages to be both retro and futuristic. The alien voices were created using special effects, transforming vocal tracks into otherworldly sounds that suggest a host of unusual creatures. Asked what inspired him, O'Bergh says, "Music is a part of the fabric of the universe, from the rhythmic signal of a pulsar to the harmonic spectrum of vibrating atoms. I wanted to express this combination of the wonderful and strange with the familiar."

O'Bergh also displays on his website (www.obergh.net) a photo gallery of aliens which he calls the Extraterrestrial Music Guide. Fans are encouraged to submit their own mock photos of aliens for inclusion on the site.

O'Bergh has released four previous CDs: "Millennial Landscapes," "Sacred Spaces," "Meditations from a Lost World," and "Carta," which held the #1 spot on the New Age Voice chart nationwide for two months. In 2003 he co-produced with singer/songwriter Marcel the album "Uptown: 2025 A.D." Emerging from that collaboration was "Songs from Other Planets."

"There are more galaxies in the visible universe than there are stars in a single galaxy such as our own Milky Way," O'Bergh muses, "which alone contains some 100 billion stars. Even if there is only one planet with life in each galaxy, that would still leave trillions of planets with life. Without a doubt, there are other intelligent beings out there."

reviews

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  • author: Rhoda Wang
  • Spacey, trancey, and a lot of fun!
    author: kolabrenner

    This is unlike any other music I have ever heard. Imagine Mirwais Ahmadzaï collaborating with a retro-hipster lounge musician and the space aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and you might have an idea of what this album sounds like. But no matter how it's dressed up on the surface, the music underneath is clearly the work of a skilled, talented composer. A must-listen.

  • A joyful experience for the senses!
    author: Dr. Martha Kanter

    The original music on this CD draws you into its ebb and flow. I find myself returning to the various compositions time and time again, always finding something new in the music!

  • refreshing
    author: Rod

    very enjoyable - other worldly (as in the title)

  • Superb. Even in O'Bergh's remarkable catalog, this is a standout.
    author: Marisa Spatafore

    This CD takes the listener to places he or she may never have expected to go. Dreamlike and accomplished, it skillfully blends the gorgeous piano compositions for which O’Bergh is known with lovely, haunting and otherworldly elements. “Songs from Other Planets” is the best CD yet from a talented composer who deserves widespread recognition.

  • Truly cosmic!
    author: Sally Larson

    There's no doubt this is unique! Just when you thought you'd heard every genre - Interplanetary arrives! Creativity on a unversal scale!

  • Great!
    author: Donna Toyohara

    Jon - one of your best efforts!

  • just what you need for stress relief
    author: Bernata Slater

    absolutely loved it! beautifuly composed and artfully designed. an absolute must have!!!

  • Excellent
    author: Scottie

    Absolutly a great CD

  • Out of this world!
    author: ken batty

    Really liked it, very listenable and very relaxing - with the "alien" theme adding something unusual and special Fantastic

  • If one must drive in Miami traffic, listening to O'bergh's new CD will help eas
    author: Patrick Russell
  • Songs From Other Planets is mystical and spiritual; very soothing
    author: Sharon Hitchcock

    I loved Songs From Other Planets. It has a mystical and spiritual feeling --- very soothing and out of this world! Moon of Sarna is my favorite track. Listening to this CD is relaxing.

  • JUST AMAZING!
    author: D. Okamura

    This CD is the immensely impressive fifth CD by iconoclast Jon O'Bergh. Filled with fantastic soundscapes and shape-shifting textures, the listener is transported through a myriad of altered states via mercurial rhythms, other-worldly instruments, and ghostly modulated vocal samples. An extremely imaginative and expressive conceptual piece. A pleasure!

  • Take your mind on a trip through the galaxies with this CD.
    author: Jennifer

    If you want astral projection without leaving your seat, you need to be listening to this CD! It moves you through the galaxies with seamless rhythms and melodies while creating a calming mood of exploration. BUY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT!

  • a beautiful combination of rhythms and melodies
    author: ben wang

    very interesting rhythms and beautiful melodies spin into a futuristic meditation

  • A new take on electronica and chill-out music
    author: Bill Binkelman - Wind and Wire

    Jon O'Bergh veers far afield from his last solo piano release and heads straight into outer space with Songs from Other Planets. O'Bergh brings a fresh perspective to electronica, ambient and chill-out music by intergrating processed sampled vocals into his superb laid-back keyboards and beats, achieving a type of cosmic lounge music. Imagine being on a bar in a space station orbiting a planet in the Andromedan galaxy. It's closing time, most of the patrons have gone to their rooms, and yet you can't leave because the music is so sensual and sexy and yet also alien and exotic. The songs on this CD are like that - intoxicating and relaxing, yet quite unordinary, to say the least. This is what they'd have been playing in the cantina in Mos Eisley if they knew how to be cool! And Jon O'Bergh is the "jedi" of cool on this entertaining and infectious recording.

  • Geat Songs , loverly to hear
    author: Marie Schreiner

    I love the music and the songs, it brings a healthy feeling. Also I feel there is a spiritual aspect to the music.

  • This is O'Bergh's best CD yet.
    author: Dr. Tom Fryer

    Jon O'Bergh has done it again. Touching the deepest spaces within those who open themselves to him, O'Bergh's music draws us to a place of profound beauty and spirituality. This is his best CD yet.

  • Unique collection of complex song structures.
    author: Michele Taylor

    Jon O'Bergh's latest release titled "Songs from Another Planet" is a unique collection of of complex song sturctures combined with an amazing array of "instruments" and "alien" voices designed to take the listener to another place (or planet?). It yields new discoveries with each listen.

  • Jon O'Bergh's vision is beyond this hemisphere!
    author: Bombay Recording Company

    Jon O'Bergh's new CD Songs from Other Planets is like a breath of fresh air. Jon combines elements of the universe with alien ambience complementing the arrangements. His vision of life beyond earth is brilliant and makes this CD superb!

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