Transgalactica shares “Joyce Of The Market”

Based in the historic Polish city of Kraków, Transgalactica is a new music project that looks far beyond earthly horizons. Transgalactica is a father-and-son progressive rock and metal duo whose music fuses decades of heritage with adventurous experimentation, bringing together the grandiosity of symphonic stylings and the energy of modern progressive sounds, all stitched with their own profound philosophical musings which lend their music an incredibly engrossing thematic context.

Tomasz was raised on the symphonic rock giants of the 70s and this project is a chance to pass down his love for the genre, while for his son, it’s a crucible for innovation. Together, they open up a conversation between eras, crafting music that’s dripping in history as if alive with modern imagination. Their sound takes inspiration from the pioneers of progressive rock like Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd and King Crimson, artists who built expansive and intricate musical landscapes that pioneered rock music development.

Transgalactica embrace this exploratory vision while threading in influences from classical composers such as Bach, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius, Verdi and Prokofiev, resulting in a hybrid sound that captures the operatic scale of symphonic rock while carrying the enduring sophistication of classical composition. Adding melodic strands from The Beatles into this fabric, their work achieves a balance that’s ambitious in scope while still accessible and as thrilling as it is carefully considered.

Having started to release multiple songs this year, the duo now brings us “Joyce Of The Market,” a single that represents their most personal work thus far. Tomasz’s year spent living in Dublin provided the seed of the song’s background, with the track offering a tribute to the economic success of modern Ireland, framed as a parallel history between Ireland and Poland. Its very title plays with layers of meaning, suggesting that the Irish people are “hardened” in sound and in life and their tormented Joyce alive in the joys of the market.

This conceptualisation extends into the music itself, which incorporates two themes from the Irish national anthem, shifting them from major to minor to create a refracted mirror of history through sound. Brought in by the subtly eerie tones of stretched organ notes, the expressive lead vocals enter with the line “you were once called the country of potato diggers” as the crunch of guitar adds a flash of gritty aesthetic. Developing with pulsing bass synth and fluttering leads, the composition flows with moments of delicate instrumental flourishes cut with commanding vocal layers to form a truly transportive musical moment.

Wrapped up in a thoroughly original soundscape, the finale swells with euphoric melodic lines as “joyce of the market” rings out to leave a lasting impression of the song. It’s an astonishing display of Transgalactica’s intellectual and storytelling songwriting, brought to life in a riveting arrangement that sees them continue to build their own fiercely unique musical world.

Listen to Joyce Of The Market below

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