fRaNk SInAtra… iN oUTER spAce?
A rediscovery of long-forgotten sounds, a voyage to strange new worlds of the familiar.
Welcome to Frank Sinatra in Outer Space - a trip through the weird and wonderful of 20th century jazz, exotica, pop vocals, movie soundtracks, chanson, psychedelia, world music, stock recordings, and library muzak. In celebrating the scratch and crackle of sounds and orchestrations consigned to oblivion, FSIOS peels back the veneer on the unexpected pleasures of the overlooked, and the sweet melancholy of the unremembered.
Frank Sinatra in Outer Space is the pet project of Nik Russo (aka Vinyl Richie) - a cross-pollination between his skill sets in DJing and the many years of research that went into his doctorate examining the fraught and fascinating relationship between music and nostalgia. FSIOS creates the living soundtracks of the spaces between - moody bars, cinematic interludes, and introspective late nights.