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Music of Celestial Spheres — part 2 — birth, life and death

by Andrey Klimkovsky

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Krzysztof Kula
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Night without Moon 05:42
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Moon's birthday 01:25
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The thin crescent in dusky sky 02:51
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Ashy light 02:57
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Equimoon 03:55
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Deeper in the night 04:51
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Rendez-Vous 02:40
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Blue Moon night 03:56
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Midnight 02:10
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Full Moon 05:08
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Lunar eclipse 03:53
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Full Moon again 01:49
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The reverse way 04:06
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Halo 03:26
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Dark clouds 03:50
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Wandering in the branches 03:03
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Death 01:10
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Night without Moon 05:01
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The Moon is one of the most beautiful celestial bodies visible to the naked eye, and there is no person who has never seen the Moon in the sky. Meanwhile, there are completely moonless nights and you can spend under the starry sky all night from dusk to dawn, and you never even see a tiny crescent. At this time, the Moon is lost in the dazzling rays of the Sun, rises with it and sets with it at the same time and therefore is not visible. Fortunately, this does not last long and in a couple or three days, immediately after sunset, the newly born crescent Moon will shine in the blue evening sky. It quickly leans towards the west and soon comes set down. But the next night, the young Moon is visible longer and her sickle is no longer so fragile.

Evening after evening, the Moon rises higher and higher, becoming fuller and soon the illuminated part of it will equal the invisible, unlit half. This phase is called the first quarter. The following nights change the appearance of our moon. Now she is approaching a full circle. Some naively believe that the full Moon and the thin month are different celestial bodies and sometimes both can be seen in the sky.

Moving deeper into the night, the Moon meets with similar, but very distant bodies — planets. Anyone who has ever seen this cosmic rendezvous in the sky blue by the moonlight will wait for it again. Now the Moon rises with the setting of the Sun and gives way to the firmament only in the morning, shining among the stars all night. Her perfectly round face through the cosmic ether pours pearl ultramarine to the Earth, in which the Moon song is heard. Listen ...

But our careless Selena completely forgot that just here you can get captured by the shadow that the Earth casts into outer space. If this happens, we see how the Moon changes in the face, turning crimson, or even completely disappearing into the darkness. This event, which horrified our ancestors, can last for two hours, after which the shadow necessarily releases the Moon and it returns to us, but at that moment its return journey to the Sun begins.

The Moon is getting old. To wait for her, you have to sit looking east for half the night. And now, surrounded by a mother-of-pearl halo, she ascends lazily, but her face is no longer the same. It is dark and sad, and the song that he sings is no longer about happiness. And it is not surprising — dark and formidable clouds rise from the west towards the Moon. Hiding the Moon from our sight, they spread across the sky and only rare gaps among the clouds remind us about the moon.

Clouds recede eastward, leaving the sky. But by this time, in the early morning sky, low above the horizon, in the branches of the spreading willows, only a thin crescent of the old Moon remains. The Moon is dying and death will come for it with the first ray of the sun.

And the next night, myriads of stars will shine in the endless heavenly ocean, planets will float majestically, tailed comets will peer into our lands and leave for the cold outskirts, and thousands of meteors, tracing the sky, will remind of our innermost desires ... There will be only the Moon ... Do not be sad. Wait two to three days. She will be born again ...

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released August 7, 1997

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Andrey Klimkovsky Moscow, Russia

Andrey Klimkovsky is one of leading russian composers working in the electronic musical space. Images creating by him - "Music of Celestial Spheres", "Starry Sky", "ALEALA" и "DreamOcean" - stayed the classics of the genre, received popularity as in Russia, and abroad. ... more

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