Chris Hadfield- "Feet Up"

Check out the latest single from Chris Hadfield, “Feet Up”

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Friday, October 9 release date set for first album ever recorded “off planet”

Album available to pre-order now.

“Feet Up” (official lyric video) debuts today at www.macleans.ca

Toronto, Ontario:  Famed Canadian astronaut, Colonel Chris Hadfield has today revealed details about his debut album, Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can.  With guitar and vocal tracks recorded in space, these sessions have the distinction of being the first ‘off planet’ album.  The album’s fall 2015 launch underscores the importance that music has always had to Col. Hadfield wherever he is, whether in space or at home on Earth.

“The serenity and grace I felt while orbiting our Earth, weightless by the window, gave a whole new place to write and perform music. I’m delighted to be able to share these completed works as a new way to help tell the stories of early space exploration,” says Col. Hadfield

Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can will be available digitally as well as on CD and 180 gram vinyl everywhere on Friday, October 9, 2015.  The twelve-track record includes the bonus viral track “Space Oddity.”

In 2013, Col. Hadfield spent five months aboard the International Space Station. In the evenings, following days full of scientific experiments, Col. Hadfield would pull out his acoustic guitar and power up his computer to record music and vocals for songs he’d written alone, as well as with his brother and his son. Once back on Earth, Juno Award winning producer Robbie Lackritz was recruited to help finish the album.  Noted musicians such as drummer Don Kerr (Ron Sexsmith), Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) Mike O’Brien (zeus), Ben Lester (Field Report, S Carey, Tallest Man On Earth), Jay McCarrol (Hayden, Golden Dogs) and Dan Goldman (Snowblink, Hydra) were brought on board to help fulfill Hadfield’s original vision for full instrumentation on the songs.

Fans can stream “The Making Of Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can,” an audio commentary by Chris Hadfield now on Soundcloud