Hello Astral Heads!
Like I said in the previous news post, a new album by our side-project Strange Vibrations was released today to celebrate yet another Bandcamp Friday! Only 50 copies on factory-made CD-R and of course digital.
Find it over HERE.
I also did a very different "Single Mix" of the album's last track "Children of the Perpetual Echo" that was released into the wild digitally last week. This version has sort of a 60s psych pop feel, I think? The original version on the album is more ambient in nature.
Check out the song at YouTube (for example):
There is nothing new out from the mothership Astral Magic, but as you might have noticed, I have put A LOT of old, sold-out stuff and vinyl debuts available to elasticStage with the help of Andy Wainwright (cover art on most) and Jonathan Segel (vinyl mastering for the lathe-cut versions).
I have ordered copies of each one to myself, but have not received all yet. But what I do have have been of high quality although being an on-demand thing and all products being done one-by-one there might sometimes be some mistakes. No worries though, elasticStage has a very fast and friendly customer support and if you receive something faulty they will send replacement a.s.a.p.
Almost all the sold-out CD-R's are now available in new packaging and the vinyl LPs available are:
Wonderland: elasticstage.com/astralmagic/releases/wonderland-album
In Space We Trust: elasticstage.com/astralmagic/releases/in-space-we-trust-album
Those Who Came from the Stars: elasticstage.com/astralmagic/releases/those-who-came-from-the-stars-album
Cruising the Celestial Highways: elasticstage.com/astralmagic/releases/cruising-the-celestial-highways-album
Wizard's Euphoria: /elasticstage.com/astralmagic/releases/wizards-euphoria-album
Black Floyd's Trinity: elasticstage.com/astralmagic/releases/black-floyds-trinity-album
Dance of Destiny: elasticstage.com/astralmagic/releases/dance-of-destiny-album
Oh, there's also an exclusive 12": Astral Magic Remixes EP: elasticstage.com/astralmagic/releases/astral-magic-remixes-ep-singleep
As soon as we get the album artwork done, you will also be able to order LP copies of Cosmic Energy Flow, End of Time, Strange Sensation, Sacred Mysteries and Floating in Space! Happy daze are here!
If you have been wondering, then yes, there will also be an Astral Magic album out later this year.
Weird Encounters and Alternative Realities will be out on the 5th of December, the last Bandcamp Friday of the year. It is a weird hybrid of a new studio album and a compilation. The CD (100 copies in digipack) will include 13 tracks that have never been available in physical format before.
The CD tracks:
1. The Worm (Astral Magic Wormhole Remix) 6:04
2. Programmed Reality (New Song) 13:08
3. Colors Behind My Soul (Remix) 6:15
4. A Lucid Trip (Remix) 4:48
5. Lurking in the Dark (Home Studio Version) 5:38
6. Taste of Sunlight (Home Studio Version) 5:08
7. Psychic Resistance (Home Studio Version) 4:57
8. Mind Eater (Home Studio Version) 6:50
9. Remember Your Roots (Home Studio Version) 4:38
10. Emerald Tablet (Home Studio Version) 4:13
11. Longing for the Stars (Astral Magic Remix) 4:12
12. Solarwind (Astral Magic Remix) 4:29
13. Kingdoms in the Sky (New Song) 7:02
A lathe-cut LP with a 12-page booklet where the Astral Magic saga continues from the Astral Magic magazine released on 2022 will be made available through elasticStage. The LP version will have partly different track list, none of the tracks have been available on vinyl before:
The LP tracks:
1. The Worm (Astral Magic Wormhole Remix) 6:04
2. Programmed Reality (New Song) 13:08
3. Mind Melt Machine (L’Autre Monde Mix) 3:24
4. Heady Daze 4:20
5. Colors Behind My Soul (Remix) 6:15
6. A Lucid Trip (Remix) 4:48
7. Kingdoms in the Sky (7:08)
After years of waiting and fishing for labels, I have also decided to finally release the heavy space rock album Into the Cosmos by my own on Astral Magic Music. So LP and CD with bonus tracks coming out in early 2026! Other thing worth mentioning is that I have started album projects with two of my old collaborators, some exciting details will be given out at a later date...
