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You don't need to be Alfred Einstein to form your own idea about the concepts of space and time. I don't know much about physics, the science tasked with studying matter and how it occupies and relates to the concepts of space and time. In fact, as strange as it might seem, I have a classical education, so honestly, I don't know much about things like the theory of relativity and concepts such as time dilation, mass relativism, or the equivalence between mass and energy, also known as E = mc squared.
Anyway, these concepts of space and time are obviously not the exclusive domain of physicists and scientists, but something that one can and should question even without any scientific knowledge, simply by looking around. Simply by reflecting on the life that surrounds us.
After all, it is evident that we have always tried, and continue to try, to define time and, indeed, even more than this, we try to force this concept into schemas and regulate it according to standards adaptable to ourselves and our lives. In this sense, we try to possess time and make it ours, but this is impossible, because time is infinite, and in this sense, this collective of interstellar navigators from Stockholm, Sweden, has certainly nailed the interpretation and deciphering of this concept in the most cosmic way possible.
'In Time' is the title of the latest record by Our Solar System. It was released by Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records last March and is an album that we can certainly include among the most significant episodes concerning cosmic psychedelia and space music in this year 2016. Influenced by progressive music and obviously by the masters of kraut music like Amon Duul II and Can, and at the same time by rock music artists like Pink Floyd or Gram Parsons and jazz artists like Alice Coltrane and the eternal Sun Ra, this large collective of musicians (which includes among others Mattias Gustavsson of Dungen) has an approach to music that somehow reconnects us to the ancient devotion of humans to the stars that compose the celestial arc.
Influenced, therefore, also by astrology, each musician in the collective practically represents a planet in our solar system (including the asteroid belt and Pluto) and by listening to their music, we take part in a sort of messianic ritual, something where astrology and science meet the cult of ancient and lost pagan deities. We are inside an imaginary Stonehenge that exists only in our mind while we listen to this music that transcends every single fragment into which we usually divide and regulate time. There are only two tracks on this record, two long sessions of cosmic music mixed with acid experimental jazz in which the echoes of souls possessed by the deities of the stars resonate desperately in a psychedelic mantra that has some connection precisely for this ritualistic aspect to other recent episodes of neo-psychedelic music of different kinds: I think of Goat, Amorphous Androgynous, The Polyphonic Spree.
We only have two long tracks. 'The Beginning of Time and 'At the Edge of Time.' The end is missing, but how could it be otherwise if we are faced with something cosmic governed by universal laws of physics and at the same time by the devastating power of ancient ancestral deities. The end is missing because there is no end. Simply.
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