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Jun/090
To celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009,Voice of a Soul focuses on releasing solely astronomy-themed music.
Astronomy has inspired composers since the dawn of times, but mostly for individual works only (though there are exceptions to this rule such as Rush and Samael). Some examples from popular music scene would be Pink Floyd’s Shine on You Crazy Diamond (illustrates the self-destructive fading of Syd Barret to the fading of a low-mass star like the Sun into a white dwarf), Queen’s ’39 (about the twin paradox in relativity), as well as Rush’s Natural Science (poetic illustration about the evolution of life meshed together with moral injunctions) and Cygnus X-1 (an attempt to illustrate the discovery of the first stellar-mass black hole both by poetical and musical terms). What most people don’t know, Queen’s guitarist Brian May is actually a qualified astronomer which explains the use of astronomy as an inspiration.
