Having become a global – heck, an extraterrestrial superstar during his stay on the worldwide Space Station, Colonel Chris Hadfield is on his way back to Dublin for a special evening in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre.
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On his last day on the ISS, he posted a farewell music video online – a reworking of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity“. After some difficulty accruing rights to the song for over the initial one-year agreement, Hadfield announced this past Friday that “Space Sessions – Songs from a Tin Can”, – the first album to ever fully be recorded in space – is now available for preorder.
Recording for numerous album’s tracks was done in Hadfield’s tiny sleeping pod.
But, as fun as it may sound, Hadfield said recording an album inside a space station is hard.
“The producer who was helping me, Paul Mills, said: ‘Your guitar playing is a little messy.’ I said, yeah, you come up here and play guitar”, Hadfield told The Globe and Mail.
And about his singing voice, he commented “There’s no gravity to pull the fluid out of your head”. Using a microphone plugged into his iPad, the Canadian astronaut used a slim Larrivee Parlor acoustic guitar to allow him to play in such tight confines. “So you always have a full head and swollen tongue and vocal chords”. In 2013, after stepping down as commander of the worldwide Space Station, Hadfield released a music video for his own version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity“.
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“Feet Up“, the first single off Hadfield’s upcoming album, has already been released along with a lyric video. This song is also included in Hadfield’s album as a bonus track.
