“The Kronos Quartet’s new recording employs ‘space sounds’ recorded by NASA over the years, and these percussive clicks, drones and ghostly screeches are artfully integrated into the string arrangements. Where some composers tend to get doomy and dystopian when faced with such subject matter, Riley is appealingly childlike and positive, and his strident minimalism is complemented by the utopian harmonies of the Volti choir.”

• 1 Sun Rings Overture
• 2 Hero Danger
• 3 Beebopterismo
• 4 Planet Elf Sindoori
• 5 Earth Whistler
• 6 Earth / Jupiter Kiss
• 7 The Electron Cyclotron Frequency Parlour
• 8 Prayer Central
• 9 Venus Upstream
• 10 One Earth, One People, One Love