I Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy

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In 1959, a couple years after Sputnik 1 was launched into orbit, the eccentric London audio engineer Joe Meek attempted “to create a picture in music of what could be up there in outer space.” With the release of this vinyl reissue more than 50 years later, I Hear a New World still sounds surreal, an alternate universe that infiltrated our own.