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Daniele
Liverani’s new project COSMICS mark
their debut with the instrumental / experimental
concept album "THE COSMIC YEAR".
The album, a collection of 10 tracks within
a melodic and progressive metal setting
are based around the keyboard wizardry of
Daniele Liverani (Twinspirits, Genius, Khymera),
along with “special guest” drummer
Virgil Donati (Steve Vai, Planet X, Ring
Of Fire), young guitar hotshot Tommy Ermolli
(Twinspirits, Khymera) and respected bassist
Rufus Philpot (Planet X) show that progressive
music can be both accessible and intelligently
written.
Each
track contains various movements given a
sonic reference to specific moments in the
evolution of the universe which maintain
both a progressive outlook yet work cohesively
as a sonic unit and as single entities.
Daniele Liverani showcases immense skill
in this his most complex, visionary and
progressive work to date. Guitarist Tommy
Ermolli’s performance will only go
to further the reputation this 20 year old
has earnt so far. This musical vision is
extended further with the stunning rhythm
section interaction between Rufus Philpot
and Virgil Donati that the listener will
have come to expect from their work together
in Planet X.
Story
Concept
"The Cosmic Year" is an instrumental
tour-de-force influenced by the evolution
of the universe from big bang to present
day. The concept taken from concept idea,
taken from Carl Sagan “The Dragons
of Eden” book is based on the theory
of 15.000.000.000 years of universe' evolution
compared to one solar year, approximately
365 days, 8760 hours, 31.536.000 seconds...
...THE
WORLD is very old, and human beings are
very young. Significant events in our personal
lives are measured in years or less; our
lifetimes in decades; our family genealogies
in centuries; and all of recorded history
in millennia. But we have been preceded
by an awesome vista of time, extending for
prodigious periods into the past, about
which we know little, both because there
are no written records and because we have
real difficulty in grasping the immensity
of the intervals involved. Yet we are able
to date events in the remote past. Geological
stratification and radioactive dating provide
information on archaeological, palenotological
and geological events; and astrophysical
theory provides data on the ages of planetary
surfaces, stars, and the Milky Way Galaxy,
as well as an estimate of the time that
has elapsed since that extraordinary event
called the Big Bang, an explosion that involved
all of the matter and energy in the present
universe. The Big Bang may be the beginning
of the universe, or it may be a discontinuity
in which information about the earlier history
of the universe was destroyed. But it is
certainly the earliest event about which
we have any record. The most instructive
way I know to express this cosmic chronology
is to imagine the fifteen-billion-year lifetime
of the universe (or at least its present
incarnation since the Big Bang) compressed
into the span of a single year. Then every
billion years of Earth history would correspond
to about twenty-four days of our cosmic
year, and one second of that year to 475
real revolutions of the Earth about the
sun. I present the cosmic chronology in
three forms: a list of some representative
pre-December dates; a calendar for the month
of December; and a closer look at the late
evening of New Year's Eve. On this scale,
the events of our history books are so compressed
that it is necessary to give a second-by-second
recounting of the last seconds of the cosmic
year. In the history of life, an equally
rich tapestry must have been woven in other
periods, for example, between 10:02 and
10:03 on the morning of April 6th or September
16th. But we have detailed records only
for the very end of the cosmic year. The
chronology corresponds to the best evidence
now available. But some of it is rather
shaky. No one would be astounded if, for
example, it turns out that plants colonised
the land in the Ordovician rather than the
Silurian Period; or that segmented worms
appeared earlier in the Precambrian Period
than indicated. Also in the chronology of
the last ten seconds of the cosmic year,
it was obviously impossible for me to include
all significant events; I hope I may be
excused for not having explicitly mentioned
advances in art, music and literature or
the historically significant American, French,
Russian and Chinese revolutions. The construction
of such tables and calendars is inevitably
humbling. It is disconcerting to find that
in such a cosmic year the Earth does not
condense out of interstellar matter until
early September; dinosaurs emerge on Christmas
Eve; flowers arise on December 28th; and
men and women originate at 10:30 P.M. on
New Year's Eve. All of recorded history
occupies the last ten seconds of December
31st; and the time from the waning of the
Middle Ages to the present occupies little
more than one second. But because I have
arranged it that way, the first cosmic year
has just ended. And despite the insignificance
of the instant we have so far occupied in
cosmic time, it is clear that what happens
on and near Earth at the beginning of the
second cosmic ear will depend very much
on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly
human sensitivity of mankind...
Reference: by Carl Sagan / “The
Dragons of Eden” (1977)
01
BIG BANG
01 January Big Bang.
01 May Milky Way Galaxy.
09 September Solar System.
14 September Earth.
25 September Oldest rocks known on Earth.
02
LIFE BIRTH
02 October Life on Earth.
09 October Oldest fossils.
01 November Invention of sex..
12 November Oldest fossil of photosynthetic
plants..
15 November Eukaryotes flourish..
1 December Oxygen atmosphere begins to develop..
17 December Invertebrates flourish. .
18 December First oceanic plankton..
19 December Fish..Vertebrates..
20 December Vascular plants. Plants begin
colonisation of land..
21 December Insects.Animals begin colonisation
of land..
03
GIANTS DOMINATION .
22 December Amphibians. Winged insects..
23 December Trees. Reptiles.
24 December Dinosaurs appears and dominated
for over 160 milion years..
26 December First mammals..
27 December First birds. First Flowers.
.
04
CHICXULUB.
28 December Worst day of planet Earth: A
big asteroid slammes into Yucatan..
05
GLOBAL EXTINCTION.
28 December K-T mass extinction, many forms
of life perished, including dinosaurs..
06
OMINATION.
29 December First primates..
30 December Early brain evolution of primates.
First hominids..
31 December Time 13.30.00: Ancestors of
apes and men..
31 December Time 22.30.00: First humans..
31 December Time 23.00.00: Use of stone
tools..
31 December Time 23.46.00: Domestication
of fire..
31 December Time 23.56.00: Most recent glacial
period..
31 December Time 23.59.00: Rupestral painting
in Europe..
31 December Time 23.59.20: Agriculture..
31 December Time 23.59.35: Neolithic civilisation..
07
HISTORY BEGINS.
31 December Time 23.59.50:
End of prehistory and beginning of history..
Dynasties in Sumer..
Ebla and Egypt..
Astronomy..
31 December Time 23.59.51:
Alphabet..
Akkadian Empire..
Wheel is invented..
The Great Deluge.
31 December Time 23.59.52:
Hammurabic legal codes in Babylon..
Middle Kingdom in Egypt.
31 December Time 23.59.53:
Bronze metallurgy..
Mycenaean culture..
Trojan War..
Olmec culture..
31 December Time 23.59.54:
Iron metallurgy.
Assyrian Empire..
Kingdom of Israel..
Founding of Carthage..
08
EMPERORS AND GODS.
31 December Time 23.59.55:
Birth of Buddha and Confucio..
Ch'in Dynasty China..
Periclean Athens..
Asokan Indian empire..
Indian Veda holy scriptures are completed.
31 December Time 23.59.56:
Euclidean geometry..
Archimedean physics..
Ptolemaic astronomy..
Greek olympic games..
Roman Empire..
Birth of Christ..
31 December Time 23.59.57:
Birth of Maometto..
Zero and decimals invented in Indian arithmetic..
Rome falls..
Moslem conquests..
31 December Time 23.59.58:
Mayan civilisation..
Sung Dynasty China..
Byzantine empire..
Mongol invasion..
Crusades.
09
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY.
31 December Time 23.59.59:
Voyages of discovery from Europe and from
Ming Dynasty China..
Colombo discovers America..
Renaissance in Europe..
10
THE LAST SECOND.
31 December Time 24.00.00:
Beginning of modern culture, science and
technology development..
French revolution.
First world war.
Second world war.
Apollo lands on the moon..
Spacecraft planetary exploration..
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
forms of life..
The
last second of the cosmic year equals to
approximately 475 years, and we're still
living it!.
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