“Will My Son Go To Mars?”: Liminal Drifter on the making of his fourth album, ‘Connected’

Will my son go to Mars? What a mad question. Maybe it is, but this was one of the thoughts that were going through my head when my son entered the world. Poor lad, if he ever reads this when he is older, he will think his father is barking. “Why wasn’t he thinking about feeding me or what cool threads to buy me or get me a decent baby haircut?” No, I was thinking about what became the single, Choir on Mars, off the new album Connected. I’m a sci-fi nerd and I was having vicarious future visions of my son building civilization on another planet. What would it look like? For some reason, I could see a church because; some reference to a higher authority, and enclosed mono-rail trains connecting all the oxygen-sealed settlements on Mars. And then I heard the Choir singing… Choir on Mars. The trains ended up in the video.

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