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THE SPACE ERASE

by Tegnaputan

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    The packaging features stunning artwork inside and out from Polish designer Łukasz Wiśniewski (designalpha.myspreadshop.pl) and Polish painter Katarzyna Adamek-Chase (www.katelier.com) plus amazing photography from Hungarian Zoltán Tischler.

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1.
One.. Small.. Step.. Ris...ing.. Up.. Cat.. Walk.. out.. .... En..gines.. sound All.. Sys...tems .. Go.. As... far.. As... we... know.. We.. must.. go First.. to.. land.. in... dust.. or sand Light… will… soon be... our... moon It’s in our past Goodbye What’s in our past Goodbye HEY! We'll Win the Future Correct the Past HEY! And claim the future before it’s passed HEY! We’ll win the future Rewrite the past HEY! Behold the future Within our grasp Seat.. sit… strap.. click.. light.. shield force.. field.. jets.. packed..En..gage True.. crew.. stares.. through.. you.. to see.. in.. side suit.. your.. self Con.. trol.. miss.. sion.. two… fold claim.. the.. prize with.. our… lives New worlds of opportunity within our grasp We’ll show our friends and leave our enemies in the past HEY! We'll Win the Future Correct the Past HEY! And claim the future before it’s passed HEY! We’ll win the future Rewrite the past HEY! Behold the future Within our grasp Vamp: No hesitating... Or Retrograding We’re engaging No star gazing Engines Blazing Fear is raging For the ages Locked in cages (AHHHS) Imitating Here them waiting Contemplating Celebrating No more waiting… Imitating No Imitations Just celebrations… Ahhhh…. Sit back and enjoy the ride
2.
Spherics 10:04
We burst through the clouds A trail of fire and sound Our leaders far beneath Our nexus of fear Being trapped in the stratosphere The ground is gone We're rising on The Earth gives way To a brand new day That soul quenching thirst Of finally coming first Above the blue, nothing to hold on to Sling shot in deepest dark Our cosmic Ark We’re on our own In the clear unknown Weightless in space A new kind of grace Falling down Turned Upside Round Our capsule of sound Our mission is now Emese! So we’re on our own In the clear unknown Weightless in space A new kind of grace The Sun is Gone No light no dawn We arrived too soon To the dark side of the Moon
3.
They’ll push us out You’ll pull us in We’ll grope the dark We’ll grasp the wind If we live Through this night We’ll have been First in flight The beginning of The end is now Do we stay Stay the course Disengage reverse We wish upon a star traverse We’ll Land Tonight Like a Moth to light We’ll Land Tonight Turul In Flight We’re pulled right into you We’ll push right onto you We’ll be a part of you We’ll take a part of you If we can STAY... ALIVE! Through this DAY… or NIGHT If We STAY ALIVE We’ll hold the light Give In…. Give In... To the push and pull To the push and pull Just Stabilize This Endless Flight Just stabilize this Endless Night Give In….! To the push and pull
4.
Way off in the distance Above your skylines On the edge of existence Our time has arrived We descended from the heavens To claim our cosmic prize We’ll plant our nation’s flag now Hungary to be immortalized A Star is Born Just three small steps For our humanity Just three small steps To walk upon the sea Of Tranquility Of Tranquility… Stardust is worn Moonboots upon the screen The shot pans out So the world can finally see A star is born The moon for all to see A star is born It’s live on your TV How could this be Some failed technology There’s no one to see All this tranquility We must repair the feed If there all to see This tranquility Captured it must be If no one sees What we see on this sea Then no one knows What we’ve done Or where we’ve come One small step back Just one redo A small setback One small SNAFU I’m out of space We’re out of view Hand me a wrench Unlock that case The gear looks fine Head back inside Try again in five I’ll plant the flag Get Earth in sight Set the shot up right Another step or two find the perfect spot Take some moon rocks Get our samples too This powder’s rough Like ash and diamonds Chatter: More bad news Major the video feed’s still not responding No… I won’t… Be denied This endless night… We survived… All this way It won’t be in vain.. Back to the LEM Gain control again Our engineers Will fix the gear What’s time in Space All we need’s some patience No time to stay No way to prove Our own dear world All that we’ve found Turul no more We leave the moon Back to our crew A star unborn
5.
Second Stage 06:45
The questions, unanswered The answers are questioned Our transmission was halted No mission accomplished Now out of its orbit Survival’s a gambit To earth we draw nearer We turn to the mirror You can’t calm down When you can’t come down They spun us round And then cut the sound You questioned my answers So answer these questions Injustice or dumb fate? Are we pawns in our own game? Was it human, these errors? Or internal terror You landed Turul You damaged the module You best calm down Or I’ll take you down You’ve been spun around You have no grounds If you can’t calm down I’ll tie you down Till we break the sound And hit the ground You’ll question my answers I’ll still answer the questions No Injustice, no dumb fate We’re just pawns in our own game Our quest for the glory Make us footnotes to our story We’ll bring back our moondust But who’d ever trust us We can’t go down We should turn around I’d rather die in flight Than put up a fight Yeah they let us down Sabotaged our sound And if we reach the ground They’ll let us drown So I won’t calm down You’ll have to tie me down Cause I won’t back down Until I’m in the ground You can spin your theories in your own time. You can drink your poison in your own time. Our tin can’s spinning and there’s no time I’m swallowing all my pride transmit all this dissonance come catch some dissa-rays
6.
The Emese 05:18
We can’t go nowhere We must go somewhere We must move forward We can’t move backwards We must react to No reaction No more can we rely In voices from the sky We must adapt to What has happened Take stock of our supplies While there is still some time We can’t stay nowhere We must land somewhere We’re gravity defined It’s law we can’t defy We must draw earth-ward Our final rebirth We’ll burst out from the skies A fireball of surprise To Rule Know More In Space No More Space Walk Know More One Burn No More Just one more turn We finally turn homeward One more burn Then back to our world now They’ll learn our names Like Laika and Gagarin And forget the phrase N-A-S-A And U-S-A... He must survey The Emese now To see if she’s alright To make our final flight Three days to go To get back home We’ll ration our supplies Without answering the whys Our trust in Moscow Irrelevant now Did they build our spaceship right To survive the return flight He’s through the hatch now Let’s hold our breath now For the ship and for his fate In the hands of outer space Just one more turn We finally turn homeward One more burn Then back to our world now They’ll forget the names Laika and Gagarin And remember always We are the Emese! (3x) Oh Emese Space Walk Know More Damaged No More One Burn No More One Hole No More Our Journey home’s begun On the Skyway from the Sun Three days until we’re done With Earth we’ll soon be one Like a gift from the skies We’ll swoop in from the dark With the strength of Csaba’s army And the light of his spark Our Journey home’s begun On the Skyway from the Sun And if our leaders abandoned us Left us for dead The cheering crowds will defeat them Lift us high on their heads Three days until we’re done With Earth we’ll soon be one No communist lies Or capitalist plots Not sabotaged gear Our ship can’t be stopped On the Skyway from the Sun With Earth we’ll soon be one Our own new world of opportunities We’ll be made socialist deities
7.
Interkosmos 03:12
8.
Free Fall Through Space No grace just pace Fall..ing Fast..er O-Zone Blaster There’s no time to think [No day no night No sleep just fright] We’re slaves to gravity [Walls now too tight Fear shows all right] Slow Down We Must Remain Calm Now If we’re going to There’s no time to think We’re slaves to gravity There’s no time to waste This is the Space Race [Free Fall Solo Not far to Go Heat Now Grow ing Friction Show ing] [Time to Breathe deep No food no sleep Near the line now Can we slow down] Slow Down We Must Remain Calm Now If we’re going to There’s no time to think We’re slaves to gravity There’s no time to waste We’re being Space Erased [Free Fall Solo Not far to Go Heat Now Churning Fire-ball Burning Time to Breathe deep No food no sleep Past the line now No-way to slow down] There’s no time to be Footnotes to history There’s no time or space This is the end of the race…… [Free Fall No Net Splash Down Not Yet Fall..ing Fast..er Avoid Dis-as-ter No day no night The end of our flight Walls now too hot Gave all we got...............................}
9.
Now it’s Time You Knew (Something of) The Truth The story that we’ve told you About the Emese’s crew Would have stayed hidden from view Had we not stumbled on clues Hard to believe but it’s true Overheard a barfly in ‘92 Mumbling to himself after a few So we ordered a Palinka or two A Major in the Army Corps His first tour was in ‘64 Stationed on Balaton’s shore Right on Topolca’s front door His story too hard to believe We got up and started to leave That’s when he smiled and he gleamed And showed a photo of his team Three soldiers standing in-a-row In front of a flatbed silo Behind them the a Volcano What it meant we had to know So then we let the drinks flow He started to put on a show Shouting about underground bases, soviet spaceships and the space race! Unknown Heroes Less Than Zeros The Winners Chosen Truth was Frozen (If You) Don’t Like my Views Unknown Just Call Them Fake News Zeros Back to that bar in ‘92 Our Major was far from through He spoke of the Coldest of Wars With Apollo behind closed doors Moscow was desperate for more Manned spaceflight more than a chore Interkosmos an ideal ruse To launch expendable crews They built their mission control Right under Kadar’s own nose Top secret tests began soon Top local pilots trained & groomed Their names were changed No family graves, but promised fortune & fame to make Hungary great they sealed their fates and launched in 1968 Was... This… Truth… Or… Lies… Told by some guy, in a drunken stream Like a fever dream, to make us scream change history it seemed Running drunken out of the bar Stumbling tumbling towards our car We tripped and landed on our lumbar looked up to the skies and saw stars What if he was speaking moon truth? What if this was more than fake news? What if there was an Emese and crew? We pass now all these questions to you... Chorus Unknown Heroes More Than Zeros The Winners Chosen Truth is Unfrozen (If You) Don’t Like our Views Unknown (Just) Call Us Fake News Zeros

about

On the morning of July 23rd, 1967 Hungarian Leader János Kádár signed the launch order for a secret mission to send four unknown Hungarian cosmonauts on a test mission to orbit the moon and attempt the first launch of a lunar module.

According to leaked documents, the project and ship were code named “Emese,” and officially the Hungarian Mission Control based in Tapolca (near Balaton) declared the mission failed as they lost communication with the Emese before it reached lunar orbit. What actually happened to those cosmonauts was a mystery until…

In April of 1992, a Hungarian military cadet visited a local watering hole near the military barracks on the northern shore of Lake Balaton outside the town of Tapolca. The cadet overheard a drunk military Vet mumbling incoherent stories about an underground military base and a secret mission to the moon.

The cadet plied the Vet with hard alcohol (Palinka) until he eventually gave a detailed description of his connection to this so called secret mission and produced a photograph of himself and several other officers standing in front of a flatbed silo truck in front of the Topolca Volcano where the underground mission control bunker had been supposedly built.

As far-fetched as the story sounded, it stuck with the cadet for many years until in 2019 that cadet decided to use our band as a time machine to explore the truth of these unsung heroes’ mission and give voice to their untold story across the epic audio arc of the album THE SPACE ERASE.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
-Tegnaputan

credits

released May 26, 2023

Thymn Chase - vocals, synth, lyrics
Béla Petrik - bass, concept
Attila Gyurmánczi - guitars
Tibor Puskás - drums, production

Kornel Kiss - violin (Track 3)
György Várhalmi - guitar (Track 5)

THE SPACE ERASE was recorded, mixed and mastered in Budapest by Márton 'Marci' Kopcsik with additional mixing and production from Pushkin.

Album Design by: Łukasz Wiśniewski with original artwork by Katarzyna Adamek-Chase
Photos by: Zoltán Tischler

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Tegnaputan Budapest, Hungary

Based in Budapest, Tegnaputan's core trio has been making genre-defying music for several decades.

The Space Erase is a sprawling space rock opera and represents the next stage in the band's evolution.

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