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It was a coincidence, but the destruction last week of the Cassini probe in the atmosphere of Saturn parallels the theme of the latest music collection from A Year In The Country:<\/p>\n
The Quietened Cosmologists<\/em><\/a> is a reflection on space exploration projects that have been abandoned and\/or that were never realised, of connected lost or imagined futures and dreams, the intrigue and sometimes melancholia of related derelict sites and technological remnants that lie scattered and forgotten.<\/p>\n
It takes as its initial starting points the shape of the future\u2019s past via the discarded British space program of the 1950s to 1970s; the sometimes statuesque and startling derelict artefacts and infrastructure from the Soviet Union’s once far reaching space projects; the way in which manned spaceflight beyond Earth’s orbit\/to the moon and the associated sense of a coming space age came to be largely put to one side after the 1969 to 1972 US Apollo flights.<\/p>\n
Track list:
\n1) Field Lines Cartographer \u2014 OPS-4<\/em>
\n2) Pulselovers \u2014 Lonely Puck<\/em>
\n3) Magpahi \u2014 Chayka<\/em>
\n4) Howlround \u2014 Night Call, Collect<\/em>
\n5) Vic Mars \u2014 X-3<\/em>
\n6) Unit One \u2014 Voyages Of The Moon<\/em>
\n7) A Year In The Country \u2014 The March Of Progress\/Frontier Dreams<\/em>
\n8) Keith Seatman \u2014 093A-Prospero<\/em>
\n9) Grey Frequency \u2014 Phantom Cosmonauts<\/em>
\n10) Time Attendant \u2014 Adrift<\/em>
\n11) Listening Center \u2014 Ml\u00e9cn\u00fd Perihelion Weekend<\/em>
\n12) Polypores \u2014 The Amateur Astronomer<\/em>
\n13) David Colohan \u2014 Landfall At William Creek<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Cassini expedition wasn’t a failed one, of course, but the destruction of the probe (planned from the outset to avoid space-junk wandering the Solar System) is a reminder of the realities of the Space Age, that this is a frontier with the same casualties and ruins as any other. The ruins of Britain’s own contribution to the Space Race\u2014especially those like the abandoned launch-pad at High Down<\/a> on the Isle of Wight\u2014are all the more poignant for the gulf between their past ambition and present state of decay.<\/p>\n
As you might expect, the entries on this collection tend towards the electronic, and there’s even an uptempo synth piece from Keith Seatman whose title\u2014093A-Prospero<\/em>\u2014is a nod to one of the old British rockets. By way of contrast, David Colohan’s Landfall At William Creek<\/em> sounds more pastoral unless you know that his title refers to the region of Australia where Britain’s rockets and nuclear missiles were tested during the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n
The Quietened Cosmologists<\/em> will be released on 3rd October, and is available for pre-order<\/a> now.<\/p>\n
Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Undercurrents<\/a>
\n\u2022 From The Furthest Signals<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Restless Field<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Marks Upon The Land<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Forest \/ The Wald<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Quietened Bunker<\/a>
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