The European Space Agency is a solo project by Larry from the paperbax and, previously, from Arty Morty. As the sole permanent member of the project, he uses the pseudonym Agent X. In his own words: “My ‘eternal’ goal was to paint grand landscapes, to ‘celebrate’ the subject (in the modernist sense of the word), without caring about objective reality. But here we are, the world has changed and the new world is hard to ignore. The elements and the instability of this new world call for a different soundtrack.” Specifically regarding the track: “Fires of Gaza, which I released in January 2024, is a new reworking of the song ‘Palestine’ from my first EP from the summer of 2023. The original song painted the bigger picture; it sang of imperialism and colonisation in general, not just Palestine. But after 7 October, I needed a different song to help me make sense of the horror – so I went back, changed the arrangement, added an angry verse at the end and inserted a recording from a demonstration in London against genocide.” Support him here europeanspaceagency.bandcamp.com Contact Larry at eurospagency@gmail.com