#electric sun

[dahliavxvii]

Let your Moon shine through the morning

And your Sun shine through the night

I told many people I met online that Ritchie and Uli are actually Yngwie Malmsteen's parents, and I'm really sorry

[thesubtlepenguin]

© richard b potter 2023

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......a power that corrupts, regaling this as fate

...the water's rising to our necks

......and all we do is Wait..............

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.....(VNV NATION.... electric sun tour @ the electric ballroom camden 26 may 2023) . .. ..

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..... Lyrics by Ronan Harris ©....

[allbeautydestroyed]

Artificial, ringing hollow

Laments for what is gone 

Running backwards, crying “Forward!”

Like a battle can be won 

What a banger of a title track! Ronan has outdone himself once again. d(^‿^)b

[vinylspinning]

Jimi Hendrix: South Saturn Delta (1997)

Most fans and industry insiders rejoiced when Jimi Hendrix's heirs finally regained control of his estate in the 1990s, but some of the resulting compilations -- much like the validity of said "family" -- turned out rather sketchy and not altogether satisfying.

Case in point: 1997's South Saturn Delta, which followed the same year's attempt to assemble Jimi's intended successor to Electric Ladyland (dubbed First rays of the New Rising Sun) with a loose bag of rare or unreleased originals, demos, and alternate versions.

First the good news: orphaned children from '71's Rainbow Bridge and '72's War Heroes -- both long disowned by the Hendrix family and out of print, at the time -- were remastered here for the digital age, or, well, the beginning of it, anyway.

Regardless, both the dynamic "Look Over Yonder" and the instrumental "Midnight" unleash some of Jimi's most explosive, ahead-of-its time shredding, while the groovy, laid-back "Pali Gap" easily out-Santanas Santana.

Now for the bad news: these numbers account for most of this collection's highlights, except for another devastating heavy blues in "Here He Comes (Lover Man)" and rare Experience B-side, "The Stars that Play with Laughing Sam's Dice," once found solely on the U.K.-only Smash Hits ('68) and Loose Ends ('74) comps.

But no one -- at least not me -- needed yet another alternate mix or demo version of "All Along the Watchtower," "Sweet Angel" (later "Angel"), "Power of Soul," or "Message to the Universe" (a hippie-dippy trip that evolved into "Message to/of Love").

Ok, so the instrumental demo of "Little Wing" is still pretty great, but Jimi's lysergic spin on Bob Dylan's "Drifter's Escape" feels like a rough draft for a thousand aimless jams from future imitators like Black Merda, Space Farm, Electric Sun, Mahogany Rush, etc.

This, my friends, is why the Hendrix catalog can be so maddening ...

His talents were so unrivaled and unprecedented, his influence so colossal and pervasive, that we diehard fans may even want to, but ultimately can't, bring ourselves to shed our shelves of inconsistent collections like South Saturn Delta.

And don't get me started on 2010's even more chaotic and divisive Valleys of Neptune, which dragged South Saturn Delta's approach (and stupid solar system titles) to such new depths that I once joked its name was a metaphor for "scraping the bottom of the barrel."

More Jimi Hendrix: “Purple Haze,” Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold as Love, Band of Gypsys, Electric Ladyland, The Cry of Love, Blues, First Rays of the New Rising Sun, Valleys of Neptune, Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show, Hollywood Bowl, August 18, 1967.

[polarconfiguration]

Radiation from a solar storm is hitting the Earth today (11/16/23), and that extra electromagnetic activity coming into our atmosphere means people will be more prone to headaches, migraines, cold, flu, cardiovascular issues, anxiety, depression, irritation, and anger. Take care out there and be extra forgiving with people today.

[alexiaseyes]

Listen/purchase: Before the Rain by VNV Nation

https://vnvnation.bandcamp.com/album/electric-sun

[inthewindtunnel]

VNV Nation

Electric Sun

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[wayti-blog]

Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles

Like a rope breaking strand by strand, solar flares kink and break when too much current flows through them, triggering massive blasts of X-rays

“Corona loops are arches of plasma that protrude from the surface of the sun, aligned along magnetic field lines. The magnetic field lines act like highways for charged particles, guiding the motion of the electrons and ions that comprise plasma. The loops, which may project 100,000 kilometers above the sun's surface, can persist for minutes to hours. The loops usually grow and evolve slowly but sometimes can abruptly blast a tremendous amount of energy—billions of times stronger than the most powerful nuclear explosion on Earth—into space. This sudden blast of energy is called a solar flare.

Some of the energy in the flare takes the form of charged particles and "hard X-rays," which are high-energy electromagnetic waves like those used to image bones in a doctor's office. The Earth's own magnetic field and atmosphere act as a shield that protects life on the surface from getting cooked by these torrents of energy, but they have been known to disrupt communications and power grids. They also pose an ongoing threat to spacecraft and astronauts in space. 

While the fact that solar flares generate energetic particles and X-ray bursts has long been known, scientists are only starting to piece together the mechanism by which they do so.”

“Among the recent discoveries are that solar corona loops do not appear to be a single structure, but rather are composed of fractally braided strands akin to a large rope.

"If you dissect a piece of rope, you see that it's made up of braids of individual strands," says Yang Zhang, graduate student and lead author of the Nature Astronomy paper. "Pull those individual strands apart, and you'll see that they're braids of even smaller strands, and so on. Plasma loops appear to work the same way."”

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