{"id":14957,"date":"2017-09-24T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14957"},"modified":"2017-09-24T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T17:48:18","slug":"space-music-the-mission-by-styx-takes-listeners-on-the-first-mission-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14957","title":{"rendered":"Space music: “The Mission” by Styx takes listeners on the first mission to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Styx<\/a>\u00a0in June released The Mission<\/a><\/em>, their 15th studio album since the progressive rock band started out in the early 1970s. The concept album depicts the first human mission to Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Tommy Shaw]\u2019s cosmos-themed language reflects the story line that he and producer Will Evankovich created for\u00a0The Mission. It takes place in 2033 and deals with the first manned mission to Mars via Khedive, a nuclear-powered spaceship, underwritten by the Global Space Exploration Program (GSEP). The three singing members of Styx \u2014 Shaw, James \u201cJY\u201d Young and Lawrence Gowan \u2014 play the roles of the Pilot, First Officer and the Engineer, and the other three \u2014 Chuck Panozzo, Todd Sucherman and Ricky Phillips \u2014 serves as the ship\u2019s crew.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mission\u00a0is one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to be a part of something unique and special that\u2019s happening in real time right in front of you,\u201d Evankovich said of working on the project, which took two years to record. \u201cIt is one of those albums that musically and cosmically showed you the next right thing to do every step of the way. I will forever be grateful and proud of what we did in this body of art.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As Panozzo said, \u201cThe Mission\u00a0is a sincere and honest representation of how Styx built upon where we were in the 20th century in order to go somewhere new in the 21st century.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n