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“Hangar Doors (Roll­out)” has a new music video to go with it!

I went to the NASA photo archive and gath­ered together some great images from var­i­ous Colum­bia shut­tle mis­sions that give an idea of the scenes I had in mind while I was writ­ing “Hangar Doors (Roll­out)”, the first track from my album. Bill had fun stitch­ing them together and work­ing out the tim­ing so they made a smooth flow with the pace of the music.

We hope you enjoy the video! Let us know what you think with a com­ment below.

The lat­ter part of Jan­u­ary and early Feb­ru­ary is potent: it is a time that we reflect upon and honor the fallen crews of Apollo 1, Chal­lenger, and Colum­bia, and all those who have lost their lives in the cause of explo­ration. Dur­ing these days of remem­brance, I would like to encour­age us all to reflect upon our space heroes while lis­ten­ing to the music of “Colum­bia: We Dare to Dream.” (more…)

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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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!

(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 1^st, 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.  (more…)

(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… (more…)

(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. (more…)

(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:
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(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.  (more…)

(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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