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See also...
- I Was Always Dreaming
- Towards The Dawn
- The Fun Of It
- The South Atlantic
- Electra
- Arabian Flight
- Monsoons
- A Different Kind Of Love
- Howland
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The Last Flight
so recordings
PSB are at their best when dealing with matters of hefty grandeur and Amelia Earhart's final flight fully fits into that category - this swoops, soars and twirls like a Red Arrows display interspersed with Earhart's troubling narrative.
'The Last Flight' is PSB's version of the story of Amelia Earhart's final, ill-fated journey in 1937. "Having successfully navigated over 20,000 miles and 5 continents on her round-the-world trip, her aircraft, the Electra, vanished without trace near Howland Island. Her whereabouts, and those of her navigator, Fred Noonan, remain a lingering mystery to this day. Rather than focus exclusively on the flight itself, the record is as much an examination of Earhart's remarkable character. She was an extremely rare blend of grace, composure, technical aptitude and a fortitude that the rest of us mere mortals can barely dream of, all enveloped by the soul of a poet. She was possessed of a seemingly unquenchable thirst for life - in her words, 'to find beauty in living... to know the answer to why I’m alive... and feel its excitement every moment'. That thirst for the abundance of life, the sheer joy and privilege of living, long outlasts her disappearance and death. It should serve as an inspiration, almost an instruction, to the rest of us; this record is our attempt to translate that inspiration into music".
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