The Polish duo Transgalactica release new single called "The Great Escape Death"

The Polish duo Transgalactica have released a new single called The Great Escape:

Death. It will be the first song of their second album “Onwards And Upwards”, to be

released in December.

The band includes Tomasz Bieroń, 60-years-old translator from Kraków, Poland, who

composes the music and plays the keyboards, and his son Filip, 24-years-old student of

economics living in Warsaw, who plays the guitar parts. They employ the vocal services

of Lucky Sparxx, a Chilean musician who cherishes his privacy, so he is represented by a

picture of an ominous Andean big cat.

The Great Escape: Death opens a trilogy about mankind’s “great escape” (Angus

Deaton’s term) from early death, famine and disease. “Long live life!”, says the chorus,

reminding us that “people used to live to 35”, but now “our lives are stretching into the

future” and “Superman is now supercentenarian”.

The music blends flamenco rhythms and arpeggios borrowed from Albeniz with

booming tones and the final guitar solo inspired by Queens Innuendo. As is often the

case with flamenco, the music is trancelike but also strongly lyrical.

The videos for all the three pieces show the funerals of Mr Early Death, Famine and

Disease (a.k.a. Plague) respectively, all three using the services of the Eternidad

Seviliana mortuary.