Penguins on Mars
CD by Guitares Cinématiques
available via www.penguinsonmars.com
$15
THE debut album by California-based Guitares Cinématiques takes its name from the idea that Antarctic seabirds might sometimes stand on meteorites that originally came from Mars – such as ALH 84001, famously touted in 1996 as a potential hoard of extraterrestrial life.
One of the tracks is named after that notorious rock, and Mars pops up several more times: one song is narrated by an ancient Martian (in Japanese) and another by the pilot of a shuttle to the Red Planet. The inspirations behind other tracks –…
