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Often confused for angels by airship pilots, common folklore believes them to be the distant offspring of a star-crossed romance between a merman and a harpy. 💫

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Impossible Voyage is playing at the most excellent St Vitus bar in Brooklyn on May 28th! Should be a gods damn bangin good time. Also, scope my flyer \m/

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Cinderella (1899) Impossible Voyage, A Trip to the Moon & Titanic - 1912 Original Video Footage

Cinderella (1899) Impossible Voyage, A Trip to the Moon & Titanic – 1912 Original Video Footage

How about some entertainment?  Are you ready to sit back and just not think for a little while?  I won’t be there for a while, so go ahead and take off your boots, grab something refreshing and just hang out and chill.  There’s a beer in the icebox, cookies in the cookie jar, and a cozy blanket to curl up with, right there on the sofa.

  Cinderella (1899) – 1st Dissolve Transition – GEORGES…

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Five Years and Still Standing

Anthony here,

This is something I've been wanting to write for a while now, forgive the ranting nature of it, I promise it all comes together by the end of the post. I've been putting energy and hustling hard to make something happen for Impossible Voyage for 5 years now. We've seen 4 drummers, 4 bassists, 3 guitarists and a few local record label releases in these five years with myself being the sole constant force since the inception of the band back in the summer of 09'. I want to talk a bit about our journey so far and what its meant to me, since this has been the longest and most energy consuming project I've ever been apart of. Over the years in New Jersey bands like Knife the Glitter, Rocking Back and Forth to Create the Illusion of Satisfaction, The Number 12 looks like you, and many more (all with similarly exuberant sentences as names) had built a New Jersey scene and energy that seemed very cool to a 13 year old Anthony. I saw the attraction to this scene, the inaccessibility and raw emotion that kept those who would oppress it omitted from its fun. It was an exciting time to be involved in music. Some of these bands went on to minor success, and others faded from memory. Folly kept the New Jersey dream alive still, and bands like Red Light Green Light held the Rockaway flag high. But still these bands faded too. At this point (2008) I had met many of you fans of the scene that would later become some of my best friends. I had played many shows in the previous two bands I tickled ivories in, and met many a fellow scenester in the tri-state area. And so when there was no clear holder of the flag I thought it was my chance to grab it. I talked to Jonny, Dylan and Connor about forming a band with some sort of hope that we'd sound vaguely like Horse the Band mashed with The Fall of Troy. How could that not hit home for the Rockaway/Denville scene? And yet many of us (bandmates and fans alike) were shipping off to college, and we caught what little flame was still left that wasn't quite enough to blow us up as I had secretly hoped. Still, those that had heard our call became staunch supporters. And to those fans that are all now such close friends and family to me I want to say thank you, and that I love you all. We played our fist show in a hot field in Rockaway those five years ago. This was before Yuck formed and shipped Jonny over seas (The first of many members to shuffle in and out of the band). It was before College and before yoko-ono esque girlfriends. Before forceful parents and fear of the future would be ripping the band apart over and over again for the next 4 years. I had had a dream those 5 years ago. I had a vision. I wanted this band to come up and take the mantle left behind by the disbanding of Rockaway and Denville's latest and finest. But the struggles we had to keep a steady lineup and build a steady amount of material over ensuing years had proved more difficult than anything I could have ever imagined.  Time after time the band was left with a gaping whole that a quitting or leaving member had previously fulfilled and time after time I was left picking up the pieces to a project that was very near and dear to my heart. Every time all the pieces scattered to the wind. A complete redo over and over. I've been doing this again and again for 5 years now and because of this constant reincarnating we've never been able to have any sort of stability that would be conducive to touring or recording or anything of that scope. Thus you've seen small smatterings of releases here and there. With each release we've released one less song. This is as apparent to me as it probably is to a lot of you and its painful to look at the VERY large backlog of music that has been made and thrown away with each member that left. Several albums worth of material has been born and drowned without ever even seeing a single recording mic (although at least many of it has been played live to you wonderful friends and fans). Every time the band is pushed down I ask myself: Is it worth it to continue? Wouldn't any sane person who is tired of the emotional roller coaster that is this band have decided its better to cut losses by now? Let it be known that I have never come to a clear or easy answer to these questions. The only thing that is clear to me is that after every devastating blow to this project I have somehow been able to get up and continue. And if I did that before then I can do it again. With every sundering destruction of the band I tick another notch on my prison wall. Another notch is another day. Another day closer to a dream being realized and a freedom to be had in knowing our success. And sure, maybe some would say that logic is flawed but its driven me this far, and its continued to fill the part of my soul that never wants to give up. That never wants to surrender. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes of last year, stronger and wiser every time I die. Sometimes I make myself weary even thinking about all of the history, all of the arguments and tears shed and deep dark frustrations had. Sometimes I get really really sad about it. Sad about the self fulfilling nature of our band name. About all the times people have tried to help us and we couldn't even help ourselves because of some bump in the road. "But that was then and this is now" I say every time, and I pick myself up, dust myself off, and keep looking forward. So yeah, its been five years. And we're finally playing in NYC for the first time. At Brooklyn's St. Vitus Bar. It took my first band less than two years to play several well attended shows in NYC, and it took this one 5 years to finally drag its ass to Brooklyn. But I'm relieved. Because despite the slow turn of these wheels every year does look like progress when compared to the last. The songs are sharper. The bandmates are better players and better friends still. And the future, while never seeming to be any closer, always seems like its getting bigger. Who knows where we'll be in another 5 years but you can be sure I'll still be here, chipping more notches in the wall, waiting to break out into the sun. This might be our last show for a while. So come if you give a damn. Every attendance had and every link shared, and every props given and handshake had at our post set breakdown makes me swell with pride as I write this. Truly it does, I feel the power of all the years of hope. The high fives and the smiles and the encouragement. Thank you all so very much from the bottom of my heart for seeing me this far. And I hope you'll see me farther soon as we take a break and work on a new album. We don't have any money, but we have each other. So expect it to be a low-key production. No studio affordability means our music has to be that much stronger. You can polish a turd but when there aint no polish ya just gotta shit a real nice turd in the first place. We hope to do just that. Here's to another 5 years. 

All the love, -Anthony

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Impossible Voyage - "I am the Greetest" - 08.07.14 - Clash Bar, Clifton, NJ

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BETA007 Impossible Voyage “Escape Pod” CDEP released 03/20/10 out of print forever

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Mike's Best of 2013

So I decided to just throw together a small post of my favorite music to come out of this year. I'll probably forget a few things. But I really would love for people to check out at least a few of these bands. Some of them are local, others are not. But it's music I really like, so yeah, check it. Maybe even reblog it to let your followers see these fantastic bands as well.

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Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy

A Great Big Pile of Leaves - You're Always On My Mind

Enter Shikari - Rat Race EP

Handed to the Thousands - Carve Away, I Still Remain

Impossible Voyage - I Am The Greetest (single) (music video!)

Dance Gavin Dance - Acceptance Speech

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Just finished working on this live backing sample of drums and synthbass for "Wouldn't Have Even Have Been Able to Be". Check it out for a preview of the zaniness you can hope to embrace your body warmly at our upcoming sans matthew gigs.

-Anthony