It is always amazing to me how every individual brings their own unique sparkle to the experience of music. I mean, you can sit down thirty people in a room, give each of them a sheet of paper and a box of crayons, put on some music for them to hear, and say “Listen closely, and draw what it sounds like…”.… And despite the fact that all hear the exact same music in the same room at the same time, and all have the same colors of crayons, each person comes up with a totally different and precious gem of a picture! Now, isn’t that kind of remarkable?
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‘MicroGravity’ video trailer
We posted about this video a while back on our news page. Finally we’re able to post the clip for you.
This trailer version is an excerpt from Bill Judge’s film MicroGravity. It was released through his Bodhi Leaf Productions company. This documentary looks at the creation of my Columbia album, focusing on the track entitled Microgravity.
Hope you enjoy it!
preface from Columbia album
(this intro is from the liner-notes to my CD Columbia: We Dare to Dream)
I didn’t know them. I didn’t know their names, or that they had been in space for sixteen days, or that they were called the “STS-107” crew, or even what “STS” meant. But I was sitting next to my piano on the morning of February 1st, 2003 when I heard the news… the awful news that the space shuttle Columbia had just broken apart upon reentry, 200,000 feet high in the skies over Texas, and that the entire crew had undoubtedly perished. It was unfathomable. I hadn’t known them, that crew of seven, but my heart was suddenly searing with pain for their families.
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Hangar Doors (Rollout)
(liner notes for track 1)
There must be a day, I imagine,
when a great ship is finally
born to the world…
a day unlike all the others.
The sound of horns is in the air,
calling all the people…
and they come from near and far,
excitedly, with such anticipation,
for they have worked
and dreamed of this day
for so long.
Payload
(liner notes for track 2)
Got to keep going
got to keep going
keep up the pace
what’s the next step to do
look at the checklist
look at the checklist
check it again
all must be perfect.
eighty experiments
crammed in this ship
too many now it seems
waiting for me
got to keep going
got to keep going!
Microgravity
(liner notes for track 3)
They speak of it
reluctantly,
the astronauts of few who admit
to the sensations
and frustrations
of the first days
in weightlessness:
Kalpana
(liner notes for track 4)
Born from humble roots in Karnal, India, Kalpana Chawla traveled one of the longest and hardest roads to become an American astronaut. Though small in stature, she became hugely known the world over as “Kalpana” or “K.C.”, the Indian girl who against all odds wanted to become an aerospace engineer, the Indian girl who wanted to fly and explore and who persevered to make it happen.
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(liner notes for track 5)
They were coming home.
They were coming home to us,
where we were waiting
so proudly and assuredly.
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