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Words have a force of their own a life generated by their meaning and by the imaginary world they refer to; a power increased by the dynamic interplay with other words. Just put 'Moon' and 'Apollo' together, and you'll be almost inevitably transported to mankind's greatest adventure the Moon landing and, before that, the space race between the US and USSR, the early missions, and the incredible technological challenges faced at the time by astronauts and engineers.It is against this imaginative background that beat-maker and bass player Moonbrew and organist andkeyboardist Paolo Apollo Negri conceived The LEM Tales project. Their collaboration, too, is the coming together of 'Moon' and 'Apollo', and of their two worlds a sonic universe where hip hop meets funk, pop merges with jazz, old school interacts with new possibilities, and urban and space blend into something new.The LEM Tales - Chapter One narrates the space race from the American point of view. This vinyledition, which includes two exclusive tracks (*) not on the digital , takes us from InchProjectGeminiInch - NASA's second human spaceflight program - to InchTranquillity BaseInch (*), the site onthe Moon where Armstrong and Aldrin landed and walked in July 1969.The journey is as exciting as the final destination, with intermediate stops called InchCapsule CommunicatorInch (the individual in the mission control center who maintained communication with the astronauts in space), InchEMUInch (Extravehicular Mobility Unit, better known as the spacesuit), InchSaturn VInch (a three-stage, liquid-fuelled rocket used between 1967 and 1973), and InchMercury SevenInch (*), which refers to the group of seven astronauts chosen for the Mercury Program in 1959.Inspired by iconic images that are part of our collective visual memory, Moonbrew and Apollo's first collaborative effort tries to provide a contemporary sonic r
