Well, I had intended this opening to be a NewMusicTuesday post last week, but I didn’t make it out to the store to pick up the CD until today, and as Fate would have it, Houston we have synchronicity!
The always eagerly anticipated new work by Patty Larkin was released on the 22nd, entitled Watch The Sky.
Ms. Larkin made Watch the Sky by herself picking and sliding on acoustic and electric strings, stacking up vocal harmonies, running drum loops for rhythm tracks, often doubling as her own sound engineer. Working in privacy, she wrote richly contemplative tracks about solitude and togetherness, open vistas and spiritual quests. Most of the resultant songs are pensive, with a deep stillness at their core.
So I was thinking about watching the sky, and that has turned from meditation to a public service!
A disabled American spy satellite is falling toward Earth, and will likely arrive by late February or early March.
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had this to say -
Re-entering space hardware isn’t a threat because so much of the Earth is empty.
Well, sure. But I think Mr. McDowell ought to keep his day job and not look into a lucrative career as an oddsmaker.
We haven’t had this much fun since Skylab buried itself in Australia in 1979, earning America a still unpaid $400 fine for littering!
