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Songstress Sabina Sciubba's creative talents traverse the vast realms of the artistic world. Perhaps most well known for being part of Grammy-nominated band Brazilian Girls, as well as being a composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and actor, Italian born Sabina sings in several different languages, including French, Italian, English and German, to convey a myriad of moods. 

Her new album Force Majeure celebrates her love of theatre as much as music, bringing together glistening grooves, tender romanticism and chamber pop, sang with a beautiful tone that sounds like Nico meets Serge Gainsbourg…

Here she picks out tracks that beam her up to space…

"In my album Das All is about the voyage of a soul, going out to explore space. When one dies, if the soul leaves the body, after exploring our planet a bit, a soul may want to check out what’s really out there in the universe… wouldn’t yours?"

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Beach House - Space Song

I first heard about Beach house from Victoria’s Dad, Olivier, who used to be our neighbor in South of France.
He’s an incredible painter, by the way. My mom being a painter also, they became friends.
I find space, sound and music closely related. Almost as if music were our worldly connection to outer space. In this song, the long synthetic sounds really evoke weightlessness and freedom from the laws of our planet.

  • Beach House - Space Song

    I first heard about Beach house from Victoria’s Dad, Olivier, who used to be our neighbor in South of France.
    He’s an incredible painter, by the way. My mom being a painter also, they became friends.
    I find space, sound and music closely related. Almost as if music were our worldly connection to outer space. In this song, the long synthetic sounds really evoke weightlessness and freedom from the laws of our planet.

  • Papooz - Moon Pie

    How cute is this song from the Paris band Papooze. I’ve sung with them and they’re 100 % all they’re made up to be. Talented, energetic and cute as hell.
    The video is more nostalgic than their other stuff, I guess, the video is so super private, it makes me feel really good and in love. It’s like a declaration of love to all lovers. And the song, the voice, of course, just completely adorable.

  • Herbert Eimert: Klangstudie Ii

    Although the Germans never flew into space, I associate space and cosmos with Germans. This guy was really a music theorist who also worked with Stockhausen, but I think this should be played on the radio. People would be so much more relaxed
    when stuck in traffic. Makes you realize we’re really just suspended in space.

  • Sun Ra - Heliocentric

    Here’s a timeless classic: Heliocentric – gravitating around the sun or about Sun Ra.. This sounds really more like NYC in the 70s, but I guess everybody was really spaced out, then. So it seemed fitting.

  • Joe Meek - I Hear A New World

    This was groundbreaking when it came out in 1960. Of course it didn’t sell too much, but it must have opened up a lot of minds and ears. Meek said that he wanted to keep it commercial so he stayed away from being too outlandish. I guess that explains the spaghetti western elements. Only the first song has unprocessed vocals on it. As if he’s just inviting those in who want something more “regular”, after the 30 second song, it becomes more and more spacey.