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Ben Walker feat. Kirsty Merryn - Kepler and Sol

from Banish Air From Air by Ben Walker

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Well, why can’t you write a folk song about space? I love the way Kirsty’s voice keeps this lullaby so warm. Back in the 16th century all Johannes Kepler had to explain musical harmony with were ancient Greek stories about the celestial spheres and a chord so perfect it starts and stops time. I wondered if it was the same one as David’s famous ‘secret chord’. Now NASA has captured and translated the sound the sun emits and I can put it on a record. I suppose I wanted to finish by looking back at where our cumulative knowledge comes from and forward to the voyage we’re all still on. We’ve always sung about the sun and the moon and the stars, after all.

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The perfect chord had already been played
Six billion years before we learned to hear.
Mercury in treble, Saturn, bass
And Earth and Venus mellow, low and clear.

Like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

The perfect concord of the spheres suspends
Their ceaseless orbiting in space and time.
So men, they say, made music to pretend
A million lifetimes in that moment’s chime.

But others say we might still hear the sun
A hundred million miles away from here
Calling back his kin as space expands;
A note too deep and slow for human ear.

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from Banish Air From Air, released February 24, 2023

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