<\/em>In it, Sagan described the planet as \u201ca mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tHarvey shared in a statement: \u201cI was excited for the challenge to compose a song in the \u2018voice\u2019 of Voyager 2. I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself, \u2018What it might say to us if it could?\u2019 This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe 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,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt immediately made him think of the Voyager craft and the sound of its signal being sent back to Earth. With these ideas as my starting point I let the song develop, and discussed an orchestral accompaniment with Dario Marianelli.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019m very happy with the end result, and it\u2019s 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 \u2018pale blue dot\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHarvey\u2019s most recent studio album arrived in the form of 2023\u2019s I Inside the Old Year Dying<\/em>, her tenth full-length effort to date. It marked her first release with independent label Partisan Records after three decades with Island Records and followed 2016\u2019s Grammy-nominated The Hope Six Demolition Project<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\tThe record also earned a nomination for the Mercury Prize, adding to her long history with the award; the Dorset musician has been nominated several times overall and has won twice, for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea<\/em> (2001) and Let England Shake<\/em> (2011). She remains the only artist to have received the award on two separate occasions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PJ Harvey is sending a message from deep space. The British singer-songwriter has unveiled \u201cVoyager,\u201d a sweeping new track inspired by NASA\u2019s legendary Voyager probes, which were launched in 1977 and continue their journeys nearly five decades later. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Originally conceived during sessions for Harvey\u2019s next album \u2013 details […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2010122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[300932,21932,21738],"class_list":["post-2473400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-billboard-uk","tag-music-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Melanie-Santiler-Cimafunks-Ese-Besito-Voted-Best-New-Latin-Music.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473401,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473400\/revisions\/2473401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}