Look up in the sky!! Is it a Biblical allegory? A plot for an upcoming sci-fi thriller? A
futuristic story shrouded in the past?Whatever the true meaning, the latest single from The Omniscient Troubadours, “Captain’s Log”, has launched and set a course for well beyond Planet Rock.
The Sioux City, Iowa-based psychedelic and funkadelic Hip-Hop duo opens the diary of an apparently reluctant protagonist as he chronicles his wartime escapades across the solar system.
Our hero's monologue [as voiced by emcee Antonym the Grim] begins in the year 4032, concluding a dozen years later after hundreds of millions of miles traveled to all corners of the galaxy. The far-reaching mind of a frantically-paced storyteller is saturated with references to mythical figures connected to the sun, moon and stars. It’s as much an alternative telling of an ancient Greek tragedy as it is a trip far, far away into the distant future.
Classical strings frame the instrumentation’s astronomical bleeps and bloops as drummer, the Chief [Cody Campbell], sets his rhythmic phasers past stun for the pointed percussion. The track’s melody borders on hypnotic as if listeners are endlessly hurdling through the infinity of outer space themselves.
I’d be amiss to say “Captain’s Log” doesn’t remind me of “3030” by Deltron 3030, but it’s because not many other artists can pull off reaching into the final frontier so cognitively.
Simply put, the stars aligned for the Omniscient Troubadours this lightyear. “Captain’s Log” delivers a big bang!
Listen to "Captain's Log" by The Omniscient Troubadours.
