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The Voyager

by Atani

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"Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world. We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls." ~ W. Churchill -Good evening everybody and welcome to News@Five, my name is George Morris and, today's scientists believe that we have less than 50 years before we start facing the true, and horrid effects of climate change. Joining us today is Proff. John Bleckman from Iowa University. Tell us Proff., how sure are you and your team about these "claims". -Well, these aren't "claims", their facts. And the facts point to a dangerous concentration of CO2 and other poisonous gases accumulating in our atmosphere, since the dawn of mankind. And we've chosen to do nothing about it. -Yes but, surely a claim this big would have come out earlier from you guys, I mean you are scaring nearly half the population of the world with these claims; causing mass hysteria and panic. Surely something this big would been announced a little sooner, don't you think? -Something this big, George, was actually announced a LOT more than a little sooner, maybe around the industrial revolution, when all this was going on. But, nobody chose to listen now when its too LATE to listen, thats when everybody wants to deal with the problem, when its finally at bay. -Now thats not true. - Unless you can, somehow, miraculously make every single human being on this planet disappear over night, there is no way we are getting passed this. I'm afraid to say it but, its just too late. -I think we've heard enough of you Proff., thankyou for joining us today. -Get this idiot off my fucking line! -The technological advances that we have in our time, will only be seen and witnessed, in our time. But the destructive affects that come along with it, will live on for thousands and thousands of years. We need to leave this place, habitable for our grandchildren, but unfortunately the media and politics and big business have other things in mind, and we have to fight against that tyranny. Because it is a tyranny that has been haunting and plaguing humanity for as long as we've started to communicate. -The session has now begun, you may ask your questions. First we have Albert Gaines, from the Liberated States. Speak, Senator. -Hi, yeah. I have a question that I want the Head of the Chair of this Committee Hearing and, the President of the United Nations to answer, IF their not too busy wiping each others ass's. -Now Senator, we have to mind our tongue in such place of meeting. We are educated individuals, not a bunch of idiots. -Well, that's the question I ask myself every time I walk through that fucking door: am I going to speak to actual intelligent people here, or am I going to talk to fucking idiots. Now the question I have - -Senator, I think you need to be si- ... -No, DONT silence me! The question I have, is why 153 countries around the world have no drinkable water? And now 3 major nations have declared that they are in a state of National Dehydration. These are the same people who voted to put you on that chair that your too high to get down from. So, answer the question. If not for me, then answer for them because their thirsty. -This just in, Water is the New Oil, in today's fight for survival. -Every night, you can hear them marching down the streets. All in fucking unison. They'll drag anyone they can find: men, or woman, child, elderly, and add them to the army. This place is a ghost town passed 5 in the evening. Like I said, they'll give you a gun and they will watch you march off into the battlefield. If you turn around, they'll put a bullet through your head. Ive always said, if they came to take me, i'd rather have them shoot me. There is no way I could fight my own brother and sister for a drop of water. -We are at a state where, 600,000 people are leaving their houses daily. Their homes, their jobs. And these vacant homes, where nobody lives in anymore are now being taken over by these terrorists groups. They are being reformed, rebuild, and reamped; building fortresses that are basically unmapable, they can not be permeated by ground troops. So, there is only one answer to that. -These "radical" groups are not only fighting for what they believe in but, also for their freedom and for their survival and for the same things that we back here, in a civilized nation, are fighting for as well. And that is food and shelter. What we see as chaos, to them, is Hope. -Please god, no! -A new force threatens your very existence and right to this planet. Join the thousands that are now enlisting themselves in your nation's armed federation. Will you join your new brother and sister in the fight, for whats right? -Never has a species caused so much chaos and turmoil and destruction on this planet, as we have. Today the Universe frowns upon us, and the stars look away in shame.
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Nuclear Age 03:44
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-Dude, I fucking did it! I fucking got in dude! Just fucking call me back man. I told you I was gonna make it, and I got in. Call me back, you know where im staying, ill be home all day. -What do you think about him Robert, because you seem to be very- -Look, the fact is, is that theirs nothing heroic about him, nothing at all. -Well thats not what- -He's no icon, he's no hero. Instead of staying here, and fighting for our country and for whats right, he wants to go out there, and run away! Theres nothing courageous about him. -I think he's fi- -Nothing at all! -I think he's fighting for a good cause though. -He's a coward, he's a loser and he's a nobody. Thats it ... making such a big deal about this guy. -Well, thats not what most people think about him, you know? You have to have your mind a little bit open on things. -You need to seek immortality and leave a legacy somehow. I think, in this day of age, is very heard, but at the same time you know ... It takes a lot of courage and audacity to go against the system that we've put in place. Thats what makes this a very different case, you understand? -Well, still haven't heard from you ... Probably just busy. Ive heard theres been a lot of crazy shit going on down there. I hope your playing it smart dude. I dont need to find out that your dead. Alright, just please, just fucking be safe. Call me back as soon as you get to base, or whatever, you know. -Do you think that, theres any sort of, you know, sacrifice he's going through? Because it doesn't seem like it. - You know sometime- A lot of times we get caught up in the act of achieving our goals that we sometimes, you know, turn a blind-eye to the people that really matter. And I think thats very important on, you know, the search for truth. -What do you think he'll find up there? You know, the truth? -Well, thats for him to find out. The truth is different for everyone. -A descend into madness, is what their calling it nowadays. A fever, for success. -So, tell us exactly the process you went through for choosing this, next generation explorer basically, because theres a lot of controversy going around. -Yeah. I mean the controversy being that mainly the mission is - We trained them psychologically more than psychically. We had to train them to deal with, you know, stress, and anxiety and depression and the horrors of space dementia. The human mind under those conditions, can make tons of errors. The success OF this mission is him getting to the chiro-sleep state where the ship will man itself, and fly, you know, into the void. Essentially we just had to take the human out of him. Essentially ... -Join us tonight, as we witness the historic launch site of, The Voyager; our next generation pioneer into the unknown. -Well, I guess this is it ... I'm going to leave and im not going to hear from you. That's fine, I wouldn't blame you ... Probably wrapped up in a lot of shit over there. Im in the office right now, signing my papers, im leaving in less than a day really ... I dont know what else to say ... im kind of nervous, but not too much ... If i dont hear from you, i just want to say im sorry. Im sorry that we grew so distant over the years ... I just couldn't muster up of the courage to speak to you ... Goodbye.
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Space Dirt 03:56
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-Understand that you will never see the Earth, people, trees, animals, your friends, your family, or your loved ones ever again. Is that understood? -I wrote a little poem, if you want to call it that. I dont know; [Acceptance] "Ive sailed across the divine will They all know my name With my ship reaching zero I start to wonder, where my time had gone. People once chanted my name in the tongue of common man But now the only language i speak is that of the stars. Ive come a long way and didn't expect to learn to so much but my fate is that of the Universe now and i am destined to fade. As Time and Space engulf me and as my mind starts to decay I start to recollect my memories and tears of happiness spill. Time and Space were kind to me: My eyes dizzied about I could hear into the past And taste the emptiness But I could still smell you here. And thats when I felt the continuum As my spine would twist, and turn." -There's a lot of people I miss, but I cant let that get in between my mission. They've tested me a lot, to make sure I wouldn't be emotionally unstable. But I feel like im getting there. -Regrets? I have a shit load. I dont think theres one person who dies on that fucking planet with no regrets. -There is a lot to do ... But at the same time nothing really. Sometimes you just want to give up, and say 'fuck it' to everything, you know? ... Sometimes -Just some days you dont want to do your job, you know? 'Just want to stay home all day and fucking sleep. -Whats the point of even doing anything? We are all just going to fucking rot anyway ... But I should be more positive, you know? -Being alone teaches you a lot ... About yourself , about people you once knew ... You start to definitely talk to yourself a lot more ... develop sort of like, schizophrenia ... There is no one here to talk to, I didn't think it would be like this. -I tried my whole life, not to let money ... Rule me. I tried. I hope it doesn't end up ... Because I dont know what I would do. -I should have killed myself a long time ago honestly. I didn't think it was going to be like this. (What did you think it was going to be like?) Its all for the laughs. (Well, there is nothing funny about this. So shut the fuck up.) -You could say there were a lot of fucked up things back there. I should have grasped onto something more viable, when I was younger.(Yeah ...)Just too caught up in a dream, you know? (It's because your an asshole, and a fucking idiot ... You never had a dream) -I ... I dont even know anymore. (Just shut up, and kill yourself) Some of these just dont even make sense. -I was never the one to ... Be the squeaky wheel. I never lacked attention, but at the same time, I craved it. (So make up your fucking mind) Sort of like a, paradox, I dont know. (What do you want? What do you want?)Is this, (Just tell them, what do you want?) an attention seeking stunt? (What do you want?)I hope its not, I hope I genuinely want to do this. -I hope, wherever this is taking me ... Is genuinely the path that I ... Subconsciously always wanted. (Its not taking you anywhere) I didn't feel much connected back there ... But there is something that just draws me closer. -So I just found out today that my brother died in combat. the funny thing is, is that THAT message was from six years ago ... I think Space, with all of its beauty and endless array of wonders (Okay, your not a fucking poet) ... I think there is a feeling of hopelessness (Your not an artist) and despair, ( Just shut up )beneath it all. It does ( Just shut the hell up) indeed fuel the imagination and want us to ... Dive deeper into it. But I think ultimately, it just leaves us feeling alone. -Oh my god ... Oh my god ... somebody please ... Just fucking do it man ... You fucking pussy. You fucking idiot. You fucking fuck! -If this doesn't make me go crazy, I dont know what will. (I think it already has, your the one that is denying it) -What did you think you needed all this time, to fucking get away? (Yeah, what did you need?) Please ... Your just a fucking play. That's all you ever fucking were. You dont even know how to go back. (I dont need to go back) There's always a way to go back. (But I dont need to go back) And you dont even fucking know ... (I dont NEED to go BACK!) Go fuck yourself! -As I enter my last few moments before chiro-sleep ... I guess ... I'm sorry mom and dad. Im sorry brother and my sister. And anyone who looked up to me ... I wonder if there was anyone who hated me? Anyone who looked up to me maybe as an idol. Maybe, I wonder if I have inspired people ... Probably not. I wonder if there was anyone who loved me. I guess ... Im feeling really alone now ... This is it ... There's a pig on my wall ... And a pipe ... It's slowly engineering me south ... I can see. I can see beyond. It wasn't that bad, is it ... I guess ill just start to space out ...
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The single track told the story of a doomed planet, who sends out their last great explorer into the uncharted realms of Space, in hopes that someday he may be able to rebuild our civilization (nothing original). What started off as a small project, turned into a real ball buster, as I tried to sow in different ideas revolving around the main story.

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Using different voices, I wanted to tell a story, like I said before. Each part deals with its own little story ark, that eventually ultimately try to tell one single tale.

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released March 7, 2016

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Atani New York, New York

Musician and Songwriter trying to make it in the City that Never Sleeps.

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