14 tracks. Running time 52:33 Alexander is an artist I know little about, but his website shows that he's released several albums. Tour of the Galaxies is a marvellous electronic music journey to the outer reaches of space and home again. The liner notes provide a narrative for the journey with a one or two sentence description of a point in the story, or feeling that could be evoked, on each track. Some of these vignettes are structured around rhythm and melody but several are in the vein of flowing ambient spacemusic. It's straight into a majestic intro with “Beyond Our Stars”. Sustained synth chords and washes swish across the soundscape like bursts of cosmic rays tempting the urge to explore. The rise and fall of all the elements and the chord progressions stirs a feeling of awe. Indeed, Alexander is skilled at using music to evoke impressions or feelings. I found “Racing With a Comet” to be one of the weakest tracks musically but the stuttering rhythm, shimmering sonic waves passing over, and background spacey effects do paint a scene of flying near a comet as its icy surface blasts off forming a bright tail. Demonstrating that little more than deep resonant chords are needed to create an atmosphere is “The Very Deep Canyons of Another Planet”. In this cinematic piece lush synth chords convey varying emotions from trepidation to amazement. In contrast “The Dream of Space” shifts the mood to become more relaxed and, well, dreamy. Gentle cosmic washes and whistles lead into a percussive section where a different aspect of the percussion plays on each channel. Underlying it all along with the percussion is a stable fluttering sound while various effects and melodic snippets make brief appearances across the soundscape. Here most of the sounds have a peculiar ethereal quality as though something is viewed through the fog of dreams. I'm surprised to have seen no mention of this artist before because Tour of the Galaxies deserves to be a minor classic. Sit back, close your eyes, and the music easily transports the imagination to the wonders of our galaxy and beyond.