Queenin Brian May julkaisi uutta musiikkia: katso video ”New Horizons” -kappaleesta

Englantilaisen rockin legendan Queenin kitaristi Brian May on julkaissut musiikkivideon uudesta ”New Horizons” -nimisestä kappaleestaan. Kappale on ensimmäinen Mayn julkaisema soolokappale yli 20 vuoteen, ja se sai ensiesityksensä NASAn pääkallopaikassa Marylandissa Yhdysvalloissa 1. päivä tammikuuta 2019. Voit katsoa videon kappaleeseen liittyen tästä:

Brian May on kertonut itse kappaleestaan seuraavaa:

”This project has energized me in a new way. For me, it’s been an exciting challenge to bring two sides of my life together — astronomy and music. It was Alan Stern, the project instigator of this amazing NASA mission, who threw down the glove last May. He asked if I could come up with a theme for Ultima Thule which could be played as the NH probe reached this new destination. I was inspired by the idea that this is the furthest that the hand of man has ever reached. It will be by far the most distant object we have ever seen at close quarters, through the images which the space craft will beam back to earth. To me, it epitomizes the human spirit’s unceasing desire to understand the universe we inhabit. Everyone who has devoted so much energy to this mission since its launch in January 2006 will be feeling they are actually inside that small but intrepid vehicle — only about the size of a grand piano — as it pulls off another spectacular close encounter. And through the vehicle’s ’eyes,’ we will begin to learn, for the very first time, what a Kuiper Belt Object is made of. And pick up precious clues about how our solar system was born.”