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Review: Penguins on Mars, CD by Guitares Cinématiques

By Sumit Paul-Choudhury

15 July 2009


CD by Guitares Cinématiques
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$15

THE debut album by California-based Guitares Cinématiques takes its name from the idea that Antarctic seabirds might sometimes stand on meteorites that originally came from Mars – such as , famously touted in 1996 as a potential hoard of extraterrestrial life.

One of the is named after that notorious rock, and Mars pops up several more times: one song is narrated by an ancient Martian (in Japanese) and another by the pilot of a shuttle to the Red Planet. The inspirations behind other tracks –…

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