Transmission from our future
Röyksopp makes contact in Nebulous Nights
Your ship enters a new galaxy as sparkling lights of the nebula enwrap your capsule in a rainbow glow. Outside the panoramic window, you see a blinding caleidoscope of cosmic lights. A longing spontaneously rises in your soul for a planet once known as Earth, many thousand years ago. This feeling sparks a transmission of waves across space and time to your pre-incarnations of many lifetimes past. Your message is a revelation of the entirety of bliss and pain of humanity over the last several thousand years — a story of beauty and grace, of loss and love.
Your message propagates through space faster than light, piercing the white noise of a universal subconscious. Your signal flows through the ether like galactic honey made of stars.
Millenia ago, our today, a Norwegian electronic duo intercepts your transmission and channels it into an album: Nebulous Nights.
If anything was coming close to Carl Sagan’s Contact in real life, this is it. In its latest work, Röyksopp invokes the timeless, deepest collective subconscious of all sentient beings of the universe through the language of ambient sound:
This place is not unfamiliar to me. It resonated with the echoes of my past — a sanctuary where I had once dwelled.