Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes and British artist and singer/violinist Wendy Bevan have released the third installment of their four part ASTRONOMIA project ‘ASTRONOMIA III: heaven and hell in the serpent’s tail’ via Tape Modern available HERE. The pair have shared the album’s opening track and visual for “Meteor Shower”,
Over the course of 2020, the duo collaborated on a monumental series of 52 cinematic instrumentals inspired by the Universe. These works are presented across four 13-track, individually named albums, as the Astronomia project. The first release ‘The Fall of Saturn‘ was on the Spring Equinox (March 20), the second; “The Rise Of Lyra’ on the Summer Solstice (June 21) and this third release falls on the Autumn Equinox (September 22). The final installment will be released on the Winter Solstice (December 21).
Rhodes and Bevan first started working together during 2018, instantly conceiving an exquisite, and very visual musical language. As artists, separated by the oceans, Wendy in Los Angeles and Nick in London, these works were made as a direct response to the sadness and turbulence of the past year,
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