When I started thinking about the theme "Songs Of The Cosmos", I wanted to put this track up – but then I forgot about it!

Sure it's about the aurora borealis, but I think it fits the theme.

St. Vincent, "Northern Lights" (2011)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeFa3Z4VrfA

#SongsOfTheCosmos for #JukeboxFridayNight and a song for #MatarikiMusic that reminds me of navigating by the stars... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6Hc3uzfeg

(Crosby, Stills and Nash - "Southern Cross")

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A jolly note to finish on:

Gustav Holst - The Planets - IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUM_zT3YKHs

Susanna Mälkki, Conductor, & BBC Symphony Orchestra (The Proms 2015)

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Genesis - Watcher of The Skies (live, 1974): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjYEyENr6c8

Peter Gabriel with bat wings! Phil Collins with hair!

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I expect Pink Floyd's "Set the controls for the heart of the sun" has already been posted, but maybe not this cover:

Kylesa - Set the controls for the heart of the sun (Pink Floyd) LIVE Vienna, Austria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7JxZE6ePU

As we spin around on this little sphere, remember what we came from, and what we will become –

Dizzy Gillespie, "Stardust" (1941)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHNx76Q8Z30

Mid-eighties, this band was working out the differences between their sound and what their new-found audience wanted to hear; not my favourite period of the band's music, but still listenable –

Killing Joke, "A Southern Sky" (1986)

"Down by the clearing in glades of fern and palm
Invocations rising from servants of the Star
And walk with the breeze, the waves, the earth
As we move in unison …"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAgHjJumXD8

To remind you that when you look up to the night sky, you are not looking at a plane but, simply put:

"Space is dark, it is so endless
When you're lost it's so relentless
It is so big …"

Hawkwind, "Space Is Deep" (live 1972)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MUR7FIVNQ8

Joni Mitchell singing about Clouds in Both Sides Now
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https://youtu.be/4NdsnFZm0X4

Blue Moon, here sung by Ella Fitzgerald. 🌘

Yes it's old but my mother liked it and #Matariki is about remembering family too
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https://youtu.be/dqwSde_eEv4

Here's one about another satellite in our skies –

Jimmy Dawkins, "Moon Man" (1971)

Chicago electric blues, with Jim Conley honking the tenor sax and the aptly named Big Voice Odom on vocals.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-a3rKpEc6E

Looking up into the infinity of the dark heavens and, wait … what?! Was that a shooting star?

Lou Reed, "Satellite of Love" (live 1973; 1975 release "Lou Reed Live")

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtOiUqBBH2g

Now, I'm still with Eno, fiddling with the studio controls, and one of his mates, Phil Manzanera –

Phil Manzanera, "Enotonik Bible Black" ("Mainstream" Version) (2005)

Please note that this is listed on the album jacket just below the line:
"Audio Warning Enter At Your Own Peril".

"The night skies clear
I look right up
and stare into
the neverending"

Oh, and it's ten and half minutes long.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqdOUg9SFmY

More of this electronic droning stuff, because it reminds me of the glittering night sky rolling over our heads, but these tracks are getting longer!

Lie back for thirteen minutes …

Klaus Schulze (with Wolfgang Tiepold, Tobias Becker, and Mickes), "Between Twilight and Dawn" (2016)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMpgSOuGoXw

I'm staying in an ambient zone for a bit, and with a different and earlier Eno collaboration –

Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, "Evening Star" (1975)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFDPPl9yZvQ

This track is an aural painting of a universe of stars, and we on one little blue marble somewhere in that cosmos –

Brian Eno, "Under Stars" (1983)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6fOioWZlV0

Matariki (the Pleiades star cluster) marks the beginning of the Māori New Year in Aotearoa/NZ.

Opening with an oldie but a goodie that starts with just the right lines,
"there are stars in the southern sky,
southward as you go …"

Ian Matthews, "7 Bridges Road" (1973)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4ypNNCSFA

"Ground control to Major Tom"

Space Oddity by David Bowie is a classic and an RIP to people we've lost to explorations or missions far away 😢

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https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo

Jobriath - Morning Starship
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oS3NBkcugJI&feature=share

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Audio only. Here's "Cut from the Stars" inspired by vocalist Jon Davison's visit to a dark-sky preserve. From Yes' 2023 album "Mirror to the Sky"
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https://youtu.be/5WSqjH6mFhk