Seven Songs About Space

I have a folder of songs that were waiting for a reason to exist. Today they found one.

Past the Sky is a new album of songs about space: the missions, the discoveries, and the strange things we keep finding out there. Every song starts with a real story I read in the news and couldn't stop thinking about.

It opens with "Come Lift Her Again," written for the Hubble Space Telescope. After thirty-six years of showing us the universe, Hubble is slowly sinking toward the atmosphere, and NASA is asking for ideas on how to boost her back up. I wrote this one right away, while the call was still open.

The rest came from my song folder, some of it from last year:

• "Old 3I," a late-night jazz ballad for 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor carrying ice older than our Sun

• "The Barrier's Been Breached," about the May 2024 solar storm that punched through the Van Allen belt

• "Four Minutes," a gypsy jazz tune about two gamma-ray bursts from the same patch of sky, four minutes apart

• "A Romantic Idea," a quiet folk song about comets, and the lovely theory that they brought us life

• "The Hidden One ED138," set to harp and violin, for a small world found hiding past Pluto

• "The Chartreuse Zombie Star," a fast string band song about a dead star that glows green, out just in time for Halloween

These are simple songs, mostly acoustic, with no big production. Just a songwriter in western Massachusetts watching the sky and trying to put what's happening up there into words you can sing.

You can hear and buy the album on Bandcamp. It's $9, or more if you like, and every purchase goes straight to an independent musician. If you follow me there, you'll hear about new songs as the missions keep coming.

https://adamsweet.bandcamp.com/album/past-the-sky

Thanks for listening.

Adam

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