I've always loved old sci-fi films and novels and their naive and fascinating atmosphere. I often imagine to be on a starship traveling thru space on some unrealistic cosmic voyage, and very often this daydream is started by Zeit - the beautiful album by Tangerine Dream. Since I first listened to that record I wanted to make an album with a similar feel, but for several reasons I never did.
Recently, however, I listened to two great albums: "Music for M100" by Alain Groetzinger, and "Ancient Astronauts" by Hal McGee and Chris Phinney.
These two works - which I also took the liberty to quote in some details here and there - gave me the drive to finally turn this idea that I had somehow kept inside of me like a prisoner for all those years into reality.
It only took me a couple of weeks to conceive and record the music for this album, so the whole thing is very instinctive and "pure".
The German title "Raumschiff Deneb" was suggested by a memory from when I was probably four or five years old. I was playing under the kitchen table, while my mother - who was a sci-fi buff, pretty unusual for a woman at that time - was watching TV and ironing. At one point I heard a strange sound effect and looked up: some kind of starship was taking off from what could have been a lake or something. I only watched that brief scene before going back to my toys, but for some reason those few frames stuck to my memory with incredible intensity. For decades I wondered what that program could be, till a couple of years ago I stumbled into a website about - among other things - an old German TV series called "Raumschiff Orion": I immediately recognized the mysterious starship that had been in my memory for such a long time - or so I believe, at least. Hence the German translation of the title :)