Melody Trust announced along with Space Blue they had formed the new record label, “Lunar Records”, www.lunarrecords.com for the specific curation of the “Lunaprise Moon Museum” that was aboard a payload on the SpaceX Falcon 9 which embarked from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 15, 2024, on the Lunar space craft named Odysseus, and successfully landed on the Moon on February 22, 2024.
Dallas Santana, Founder of Space Blue was quoted in Billboard Magazine, “Through this pioneering endeavor, the Lunaprise Mission strives to immortalize our artistic legacy, cultural achievements, and technological progress over a billion years, ensuring that future generations, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial, can marvel at the artistic wonders that define our civilization.
As the curator of the musical moon museum, Santana says music from 1969 and artists who played Woodstock are a focal point of this collection for several reasons. On July 20, 1969, humans set foot on the moon for the time; just weeks later, the Summer of Love reached its pinnacle when 460,000 people gathered at the Woodstock Music Festival in a spirit of peaceful togetherness he hopes this capsule will evoke. Santana admits there’s a bit of historical irony here: many musicians of that generation pressured the U.S. government to stop spending money on lunar landings in favor of solving terrestrial problems, which was a part of the reason NASA suspended moon missions in 1972. Now, some of those artists are enshrined on the moon for up to a billion years.
This lunar art museum spans millennia, reaching all the way back to a Sumerian cuneiform fragment of musical notation up to modern-day beats by Timbaland. The digitized lunar archive includes material from 20th century icons Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Sly & the Family Stone, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, The Who and many more, as well as photos of everything from Woodstock to album art (naturally, a photo of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is included) in a glass, nickel and NanoFiche structure built to last millions of, if not a billion, years.
He hopes the lunar payload — which also includes plenty of non-musical artistic achievements, including paintings by Rembrandt and Van Gogh — will “resurrect” the spirit of the Woodstock generation. “We need peace on the earth right now. We’ve brought to the moon the Summer of Love, the people and artists and messages that are needed on earth right now.”
https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/moon-landing-2024-music-lunar-capsule-1235615080
As quoted in Rolling Stone Magazine, “Tune.FM and Space Blue have announced a compilation that brings together live performances from some of the most iconic musicians in history. This unique collection includes the musical artistry of legends like Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Carlos Santana, and more. The two-volume series, featuring 26 tracks by some of the world’s most revered artists. The first installment, Summer of Love Volume I, promises to captivate listeners with its rare and remarkable tracks. Highlights include the posthumously released Peoples, Peoples, Peoples by Jimi Hendrix, a riveting 17-minute live rendition of In A Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly, Carlos Santana’s electrifying performance of Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock, and Bob Marley’s pioneering collaboration with Lee Perry on Soul Rebel.”\