Carl Sagan (feat. Stephen Hawking) – “A Glorious Dawn”
Today marks what would be the 75th birthday of Carl Sagan, noted astronomer, agnostic, exobiologist, and turtleneck enthusiast. He’s perhaps most popularly recognized as the host of the 1980’s PBS series Cosmos, where he explored the incomprehensible complexities of the universe with a child’s sense of wonder and a poet’s ease of metaphorical flourish.
In honor of Carl Sagan Day (which was, for some reason, two days ago) composer John Boswell cut-and-paste the Cosmos narrator into what sounds like a Black Moth Super Rainbow after-school special: sun-drenched psych-pop, speckled with analog space dust and shopping mall keyboards, complete with heavily vocoderized mindbombs about the “exquisite interrelationships of the awesome machinery of nature.” Even Stephen Hawking, the T-Pain of programmable voice synthesizer, makes a cameo, dropping eight bars of theoretical imponderables over the bridge.
You can download the track at symphonyofscience.com, or you can try to pick it up on limited-edition vinyl via Jack White’s Third Man Records. Get behind me Sagan!
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At last, my love of Carl Sagan and Auto-Tune collide!