The Wimshurst's Machine: Music

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When first we started to work on this song, was just a theme on a keyboard, wrote down by Roberto (his first song wrote for TWM). But we felt something was still missing, even after we decided to place this spacey, dreamy song in it's right place: space. We chose to tell a "true fairy tale", the true story of a veteran astronaut who returned in space after so many time, living again it's dream. But still something was still missing, we were a bit "stuck", so we asked to our good friends "Solar Wind" (now "Gamma Leonis") Lonesome Dave and John Worsley if they had some idea with this song. And what you may hear here is the result. This song is destinated to our new incoming album, "The Alchemist".

Keyboards: Roberto Canone
Singing voice: John Worsley
Bass guitar & electric guitar: Lonesome Dave
Eb Baritone saxophone: Augusto Chiarle
Acoustic drums: Massimiliano Baudissard
Electronics, effects, engineering and programming: Augusto Chiarle
Lyrics: Dave Long

John Glenn's voice & NASA effects/voices: Black Box (under regular license).

Discovery (John Glenn's Adventure)
Ride a flame into the sky
Looking back from up on high
The arrow streaks into the blue
A miracle, to once more view
An afternoon fading to a blanket of stars

The pioneer returns once more
With no fear of what’s in store
From Friendship 7’s plunge to the sea
to this voyage of Discovery
The hero you were is the hero you are.

(lyrics by Dave Long, vocals by John Worsley)