Welcome
to Planet Zebidee
This is the soundtrack to an alien planet – inspired
by science fact and fiction. Here you can read the story behind
the music, listen to tracks from the album, take part in the
discussions on space travel and alien biology. And of course…buy
the album.
Planet Zebidee is also available on
itunes.
The Story
Compared with Earth, Zebidee was a late bloomer.
Orbiting its parent star on the outer edge of the goldilocks
zone for billions of years, life never evolved beyond microbial
organisms deep in the icy oceans, taking sustenance from the
planet’s internal heat.
As the millennia passed Zebidee’s sun warmed and expanded,
ushering in a new age. Life soon swarmed through the oceans,
eventually taking to the land and the air. In time an ecosystem
developed to rival that of earth.
At the time this story begins Zebidee is a complex and beautiful
place. Swathes of clouds trap the energy of its pink sun,
now grown warmer with age.
Orbiting the planet is a human artefact. An interstellar probe.
Sleeping through the hundred year journey from earth it now
awakes. Artificial, but modelled on human intelligence. A
single consciousness controlling bodies equipped for flying,
roving the landscape and cruising the oceans. Robotic eyes
open and survey the pink misty ball floating in the blackness.
The artificial mind is sophisticated enough to feel exhilaration,
fascination, and something akin to fear. The time has come.
