Featuring experiments in sound and minimalist electronic arrangements, punctuated by audio-clips that hint at mischief, Kaleidomission plays like a lost soundtrack to an extra-terrestrial journey from a time unknown. Moments of darkness and stark beauty will linger with you long after the exit gates have closed.

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"A joint release by the ever-dependable Wormhole World and HREA’M labels for Spacelab, a mysterious electronic project with absolutely no biographical backstory. Containing 36 short tracks, Kaleidomission is an exercise in plunderphonic dexterity, taking in freaky little segments of speech or birdsong culled from the ether, wonky loops of jazz drumming and ambient texture like ‘We Love Can’ and ‘Astral Dynamics’ that sound like they’re being broadcast from a broken AM transmitter in the overgrown grounds of Aleister Crowley’s house. The title of the standout skewed electronica of ‘Fucked Casio Melody’ requires no further explanation. Released October 16 2020."

furtherdot.com/2020/10/25/shots-immy-spacelab-lagoss-john-frusciante-snowdrops-body-negative-paradise-cinema-espen-eriksen-trio/

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"I was a bit thrown when I saw the number of tracks on this release — 35 — but they're all quite short and it absolutely flies by. I should be honest and say the first time I listened to this I had an album of field recordings playing in a separate window, which only added to the experience. It's that kind of "World of Tomorrow"-style weird electronics, strange samples and extra-terrestrial vibery. One track features a recording of a man saying: "Seems to be a common problem today, everybody's afraid of scientists. They seem to feel we know some sort of deep dark secret about the mysteries of life." PRESCIENT."

bandcloud.org/bc315/

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"A sort of Faust Tapes of out-of-context dialogue samples, fucked-with drum breaks and Kosmische otherworldliness, the new experimental album from Spacelab runs through a thirty-nine spanning track list of fleeting incipient ideas and the strange. Some of which last less time than it takes to pronounce the title. There’s even tracks that seem to exist purely for their visual mirrored effect on Soundcloud: The piques of the reversed then switched back around ‘Goodbye’ creating a nice symmetrical image.

“The soundtrack to an extra-terrestrial journey from a time unknown”, Kaleidomission runs and also peruses a both thoughtful and more oft-hand exploration of minimalism, ambient and cosmic dreamy space music. Early traces of Popol Vuh (before the heavens parted era), Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Mythos and, well, a Kosmische(olgy) of inter-dimensional travellers can be heard permeating this galaxy quest. There’s even a title nod to those miscreants of Krautrock and beyond, Faust (‘We Love Faust’) that kind of orbits their sphere of magic box sonic experimentation: Spacelab’s homage features a repeating timeless acoustic guitar motif that echoes against a rising and falling away ambient field of melodious illusions.

Those titles more or less sum up the intention behind each of these acid tripping film dialogue snatches, majestic floats through the heavens, crystal mirages and more cartoon scores. Some act as a breather, whilst other leaps out of a mystique void. There are also spells of a supernatural kind (an obvious one, ‘Trick The Devil’) to be found in the album’s darker recesses.

From lunar caves to magic woods, astral gateways and the fatuous, Spacelab prove sonically creative and mischievous in producing a cosmology of investigation worthy of attention. It’s Kosmische music but not quite as we know it."

monolithcocktail.com/2020/10/20/tickling-our-fancy-093-epic45-iklan-aquiles-navarro-tcheser-holmes-sebastian-reynolds/

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Released on Wormhole World, where the album is available on CD.
wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidomission

Released on Hreám Recordings, where the album is available on Cassette.
hream.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidomission

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