PJ Harvey announces ‘Voyager’, her first new music following the release of I Inside the Old Year Dying in 2023. Listen and watch the video, and pre-order the limited edition 7″ vinyl, exclusive to the PJH store.
Recorded with a full orchestra at Miraval Studios in Provence, ‘Voyager’ takes its name from the NASA probes launched in 1977, still travelling through interstellar space nearly 50 years on.
Polly says, “The song had already started life as part of the ongoing work towards my new album, so when Professor Brian Cox invited me to write a piece for his new show, I sent him the voice memo of this song to see if it resonated. It immediately made him think of the Voyager craft and the sound of its signal being sent back to Earth.
I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself what it might say to us if it could? This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song.
I’m very happy with the end result, and it’s wonderful to hear the orchestral score bring such expansiveness to my music. I thoroughly enjoyed researching the history and journey of Voyager 1 & 2, and was glad to be able to quote the great Carl Sagan within the song, and his famous description of our fragile and beautiful ‘pale blue dot’.”
Listen and watch the video, and pre-order the limited edition 7″ vinyl, exclusive to the PJH store.
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