Pale Blue Dot: A Tribute to Carl Sagan is the first studio album released by Benn Jordan

Benn Jordan

Benn Lee Jordan is an American modern jazz and electronica musician operating under many pseudonyms. Since 1999 his most widely distributed and eclectic music has been released under the name of The Flashbulb...

 using his own name, instead of the various pseudonyms he generally releases his music under (predominantly The Flashbulb

Benn Jordan

Benn Lee Jordan is an American modern jazz and electronica musician operating under many pseudonyms. Since 1999 his most widely distributed and eclectic music has been released under the name of The Flashbulb...

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Jordan shifts away from his typical drill n bass style with an original and flowing ambient album paying tribute to the late scientist Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books...

. The album title is an homage to the famous Pale Blue Dot

Pale Blue Dot

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about kilometers from Earth, as part of the solar system Family Portrait series of images. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot against the vastness of space...

 photograph of Earth

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...

 taken by Voyager 1

Voyager 1

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram space probe launched by NASA in 1977, to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. Operating for as of today , the spacecraft receives routine commands and transmits data back to the Deep Space Network. At a distance of as of...

from over four billion miles away.

Track listing

All songs written by Benn Jordan.

1. "Looking Upwards" – 4:10
2. "Ascent" – 3:15
3. "Leaving Earth" – 2:49
4. "Discovery" – 3:07
5. "Infinity Alone" – 4:04
6. "Passing Time" – 3:11
7. "Becoming" – 3:25
8. "Floating Vacuum" – 3:56
9. "Cold, Agoraphobic" – 2:13
10. "Outside" – 3:20
11. "Hypoxia" – 2:30
12. "These Solemn Stars" – 4:34
13. "Looking Into the Past" – 4:10
14. "Floating Vacuum II" – 3:28
15. "Peace with Darkness" – 4:00
16. "A Distant Earthrise" – 4:27
17. "Safe Landing" – 2:51
18. "Sunrise in Blue Skies" – 3:35

Online distribution

By September 10, 2008, the album had also been released in MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 and FLAC formats on several private trackers which includes the same message addressed to downloaders that was attached to the torrent file for Soundtrack to a Vacant Life

Soundtrack To A Vacant Life

Soundtrack to a Vacant Life is the eighth studio album by The Flashbulb , released in 2008.The track "Suspended in a Sunbeam" contains an excerpt from Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot, which may serve as a prelude to Jordan's following album Pale Blue Dot.-Track listing:# "Prelude" – 1:09# "Kirlian...

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