Astral Magic & related news

  

Hi everyone!

Time for some news. The latest single from the forthcoming Astral Magic with Paul Roland album is the title track ”Light of the World” released digitally on Summer Solstice to celebrate the longest day of the year in Northern hemisphere.

Listen:

 astralmagic.bandcamp.com/track/light-of-the-world-single

The whole album will be released on the next Bandcamp Friday 7.8. All music by Paul Roland and Santtu Laakso, lyrics by Paul Roland.

 

Other credits:

Paul Roland – vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards.

Santtu Laakso – backing vocals, bass, synthesizers, keyboards, percussion, samples, production, mix.

Jonathan Segel – electric guitar, violin, mandolin, mastering.

Jasmin Anglén - backing vocals.

Anton Sailo - broken kannel.

Juha Takalo – cover design.

The initial CD pressing is 100 copies and the album will also be available from elasticStage in the UK in lathe-cut vinyl version.

 

 

Other stuff coming out later this year is a new Strange Vibrations album Psychic States, a very limited Dr Space meets Astral Magic CD-R and the collaboration with Bridget Wishart and Steve Bemand…and of course also a new Astral Magic album Astral Architects! More on those later.

Dr Paradiso Meets Dr Space - Liquid Planetscapes

 Self-released (DPMDS001)

 

Dr Joe Paradiso has been building one of the largest modular synthesizer for over the past 50 years. In March 2025 Dr Space visited him and they recorded together improvised modular synth jams and this CD includes the "Movement 13 (Swampworld)". It's the first release of these sessions and lasts for 80 minutes. On CD it's just one massive slab of pulsating and bleeping synths, on Bandcamp it had to be divided in three sections due to size limit. It's a continuous mass of several drones and bleeps all run through numerous effect pedals. Inside the cover Dr Space explains a bit the creating and recording process which is quite interesting. It's hard to find any melody or even rhythm from this very experimental and droney piece but if you are okay with that and enjoy this kind of electronic ambience you might enjoy it. Definitely spacey and weird! Just 100 copies made so act fast if you want one.

drspace1.bandcamp.com