Astral Latitudes by Jakob Rehlinger

A reworking and expansion of the orchestral embellishments I wrote for the album Astral Blackout by my retro space-rock project Heavy Moon. The task of creating full-blown compositions out of just those brief musical sketches was an engaging creative exercise, a sort of puzzle box I set out for myself I wasn't confident I could solve. What made it challenging was in many cases the cues often amounted to no more than a simple four note melody. As well, due to the nature of the album they were written for, these short motifs were based on hard-rocking pentatonic blues scale riffs, which is a more bombastic direction than the minimal droning ambience I'd envisioned my next orchestral project to be.

The original versions these compositions were based on can be heard in their natural habitat here:
https://heavymoons.bandcamp.com/album/astral-blackout

Jakob Rehlinger works in many genres. This account spotlights his music as a composer / improviser working in the nexus of ambient, jazz, kosmische electronics, electro-acoustic, new age, and more recently, orchestral works.