"A Glorius Dawn" Vinyl Release - Cosmos Goes Chill-Out

This slipped under my radar as I began the vacation-ish portion of my summer - and in fact has been slipping under that radar since it first pulled itself tentatively onto the mainland of the Internet. But thanks to the fine folks at Third Man Records, a copy has wended its way into my hands.

Basically, a guy by the name of John Boswell, having amused himself and many others by adding autotune to news reports, turned his attentions to the somewhat more august speculations of Carl Sagan, courtesy of his masterwork PBS miniseries, Cosmos. Using clips from the show (and from Stephen Hawking as well) he's put together a series of pieces that are far more compelling than they have any right to be.

At the end of June, Third Man Records made the initial single available as a vinyl 7'' record, and that's available at their website; the song can also be acquired through free download at the Symphony Of Science website, and of course you can get a high-quality copy at iTunes (search for "A Glorious Dawn".) Boswell has since set other speculative treatises to music, and he's made more of them available at Symphony Of Science; a $25 donation to the project gets you the vinyl and his undying thanks.

And who can argue with this:



By the way, thanks to the fine folks at Hulu, you can see Cosmos in its entirety. (Let it not be said that Altrok would stand in the way of a good education.)