NEW YORK — Various rockers Andy Frasco and the U.N. had been a pressure to be reckoned with on the stage of Irving Plaza on Friday evening (Feb. 28), energetically blasting by means of a set of unique songs to a packed crowd.
The multi-faceted band’s new tune “Try Not to Die” performed just a few songs into the set, poetically using Carl Sagan’s well-known quote about Voyager 1‘s “Pale Blue Dot” portrait of Earth as a tiny speck in area and with Frasco’s ideas on the stagnation of humankind:
I am simply one other no one, runnin’ within the human race / On a pale blue dot, suspended on a sunbeam, spinnin’ by means of outer area / Even with all this gravity, there’s different issues pulling us down / We needs to be residing on Mars by now, however we’re all runnin’ round.
Frasco joins an inventory of musicians who’ve been impressed to put in writing music about numerous area objects, — particularly the Pink Planet.
In recent times, for example, House.com has lined Pearl Jam making a “Quick Escape” to Mars,” The Claypool Lennon Delirium taking over the “Monolith of Phobos,” Coheed and Cambria going from “Here to Mars,” and extremely acclaimed guitarist Joe Satriani’s “Elephant of Mars.” All are both high-octane rock albums or songs influenced partly by our internal photo voltaic system neighbor.
One other spotlight of the present was when the electrifying bass participant Karina Rykman, finest recognized for her debut album “Joyride” and performing with the home band on “Late Evening With Seth Meyers,” stepped onto the stage for a face-melting jam with the band. With so many artists discovering off-world inspiration nowadays, you must surprise if Mars or area exploration will ever play into her profession as a jam rock singer-songwriter.
Watch a clip of her efficiency right here:
Including to a really cosmic evening, the band additionally carried out “Iowa Moon,” a love music that harps on the celebrities and our celestial companion:
I am metropolis lights / You are farm star vibrant / You are my even keel / My Iowa moon.
In a world fraught with turmoil, Andy Frasco and the U.N. flipped the script to convey pure pleasure to the Irving Plaza plaza crowd. For this old-school rocker, the present was a real reminder of the therapeutic energy of music.
