Description:	Ltd 7" on Third Man
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Singer-Songwriter
	Label:	Third Man
	Price:	£5.49
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...according to our Business Lady on 26 November 2009.

Bit of an odd one I've picked up here...'A Glorious Dawn' is a seven inch single composed and arranged by John Boswell that integrates the scientific musings of Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking with some retro futurist space-age synth prog. This has found it's way to release as a result of being viewed over 2 million times on You Tube and features loads of lovely footage from Sagan's Cosmos TV show. The tune is essentially an Air tune with vocoder science banter over the top. I like science and space and Stephen Hawking's and Carl Sagan so I'm giving this double super props times two. Now, the single makes a lot more sense if you watch the accompanying video......so, here's a link.

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What their label says...

Third Man Records is over the moon to announce the 7-inch release of A Glorious Dawn. A Glorious Dawn is a moving arrangement of Carl Sagan s sagacious words culled from his magnificent Cosmos series. The piece initially gained recognition when composer John Boswell uploaded to YouTube his remixed Sagan dialogue edited, Auto-Tuned and put to a beat and coupled with a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking. At well over one million views, this is a project that goes far-beyond the buzz of Internet phenomenon. To hear A Glorious Dawn and view the accompanying video, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbcThe release is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Sagan s birth. Also happening that day is a reception in United States Congress with speeches by senators, NASA officials and assorted scientists, all hosted by the Planetary Society, which was co-founded by Sagan. The one-sided single features a very special etching on the flipside. Reproduced from the original artwork, the etching copies the etching included with the Voyager Golden Record, set off into space in 1977 as the most elaborate message-in-a-bottle idea ever imagined. With its inclusion of Blind Willie Johnson s Dark Was The Night it goes without saying that the Voyager Golden Record is one of Third Man s favorite releases of all-time.