FLAC tracks  | Classical Soundtrack | 44:16 | Blue Pearls Music | 157 MbThe highlights of September are the radio premiere of “A funeral march for the first Cosmonaut” on September 15 and the release of the music of this Requiem on September 27.

The text was written by painter and poetess Etel Adnan 50 years ago.

She committed me to write the music and turn her highly prophetic and still actual poem into a requiem not only for Juri Gagarin but also for our world.

I did record her this year as one of the three voices in this piece.

After our intense and joyful preproduction Etel did wish me good luck for this journey into a “new prehistory”.

Please find all other information about the line up and interviews here.

The journalist Stefan Fischer did write in the Süddeutsche Zeitung the following announcement (sorry only in german right now): “Reichlich verspätet findet dieser Nachruf ins Radio: 1968 hatte die in Beirut geborene, kosmopolitische Schriftstellerin Etel Adnan nach dem tödlichen Absturz von Jurij Gagarin das Poem A Funeral March for the First Cosmonaut geschrieben.

Gagarin war 1961 als erster Mensch ins All geflogen und hatte in der Raumfähre Wostok 1 die Erde umkreist.

Tracklist:01. Ulrike Haage – Pipeline to the Sky I (4:53)02. Ulrike Haage – Seven Sunsets (1:26)03. Ulrike Haage – Remember I (2:26)04. Ulrike Haage – Remember II (2:20)05. Ulrike Haage – The Sufi in Orbit I (4:35)06. Ulrike Haage – The Sufi in Orbit II (2:18)07. Ulrike Haage – Pipeline to the Sky II (2:27)08. Ulrike Haage – Battle of the Angels I (1:27)09. Ulrike Haage – Battle of the Angels II (1:47)10. Ulrike Haage – Universum I (3:01)11. Ulrike Haage – The Great Child in the Great Machine I (1:56)12. Ulrike Haage – Tears Dripping from Mount Fuji (1:57)13. Ulrike Haage – At Cosmic Speeds (2:19)14. Ulrike Haage – While the Sun Wept I (1:31)15. Ulrike Haage – Universum II (3:06)16. Ulrike Haage – While the Sun Wept II (1:36)17. Ulrike Haage – At Twilight (2:10)18. Ulrike Haage – The Great Child in the Great Machine II (3:02)