Tom Ellard - Meteosat 2004 FLAC album

Tracklist

1	Launch	1:54
2	Meteosat	3:16
3	Afristar	4:55
4	Cluster 2FM5	2:09
5	GOES 3	2:37
6	Eurobird	6:39
7	Dummy Mass	2:18
8	Starlette	1:56
9	Garuda 1	2:56
10	Telstar 8	3:34
11	Jawsat	1:42
12	Oscar 32	1:27

Credits

• Recorded By – Tom Ellard

Notes

"In 2004 I was asked to provide some music for a wedding. That isn't something I would usually do, but for the reason that the wedding was happening in Poland at a small town for which I had the coordinates brought to mind satellites and surveillance. This was a theme and a chance to expand my practice a bit more and try out some ideas.

When I looked up names of satellites they were charming - there is Telstar of course and the mysterious Dummy Mass and a Starlette, and each name gave plenty of clues about what to do. In the case of Cluster 2FM5 it was hard to avoid making a 'Cluster' track.

It all got done very quickly and sent off to Poland, I think it got a play, I can't quite recall. I made a very limited number of CDs and sent them to a few unlucky people, so it remained a bit of an exclusive for nearly a decade. One track (Telstar 8) was re-used for the track 'Taking Out The Surfing Bird' on the 'Under Gail Succubus' album two years later.

Now while I work very slowly on new things it seems a decent time to make this generally available at no cost, in case it brings some wider joy to satellite fanciers. Or something."

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
none	Tom Ellard	Meteosat 2004 ‎(12xFile, FLAC, Album)	Sevcom	none	Australia	2013