Third Man Records is over the moon to announce the 7-inch release of “A Glorious Dawn” on November 9th.
“A Glorious Dawn” is a moving arrangement of Carl Sagan’s sagacious words culled from his magnificent “Cosmos” series. The piece initially gained recognition when composer John Boswell uploaded to YouTube his remixed Sagan dialogue edited, Auto-Tuned and put to a beat and coupled with a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking. At well over one million views, this is a project that goes far-beyond the buzz of “Internet phenomenon.”
To hear “A Glorious Dawn” and view the accompanying video, Click here
4 years ago I started working on a concept EP/demo of solo material. The idea was to take clips of Carl Sagan’s cosmos, and lecture audio (which I spent tedious hours collecting, cutting, and pasting) and sample it on top of music. The sound was sort of indie-electro-mystique, with an occasional robot vocal melody.
I recorded 2 of the songs, and even performed them live. Unfortunately people weren’t responding to it, and nobody understood why I was playing with some old guy narrating. I ditched the project and moved on.
This is the 3rd time in the last couple of months that I’ve seen a Carl Sagan influenced music project. This is one of many cases where I’ve learned to trust my intuition on an idea and execute. Life is too short not to. I could have just as easily finished it and moved along.
I do however have backups of the projects on a dusty old hard drive…I’ll have to share one day.
