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Beautiful Minds: Celebrating Extraordinary Women

by Sarah Partridge

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    Pre-order of Beautiful Minds: Celebrating Extraordinary Women. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

    You may also order/reserve a CD which comes with a booklet that tells you a little about each woman and the song that is written about them.
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    releases August 20, 2021

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in a four panel digipak with a booklet inside. All artwork by Chris Drukker.

    Includes digital pre-order of Beautiful Minds: Celebrating Extraordinary Women. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases August 20, 2021
    item ships out within 2 days
    edition of 150 
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1.
Sky Sweeper 05:02
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Heavenly bodies floating. Not a breath of air. Night in it’s grandeur, So magnified. I am alive when sweeping the sky. Luminous in the darkness, I behold it’s flight. Sequestered and lonely, Befriending my eye, Nature reveals a new firefly. A falling star that flies around the sun, On the run, so divine. Ancient but new, Yellow and blue, Carries my name through time. Now you can open the window. Ladies of the night. Reading the heavens, In shadow no more. Gazing at stars and free to explore. Tag: Scanning the sky and drinking in more I am a comet ready to soar……..
2.
Blues In Maryam's Truth
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A Double Life 04:59
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Verse: Austrian and beautiful and schooled beyond compare, Hedwig Kiesler dreamed of fame and fortune with a flair. A controversial movie role, A husband who would take a toll, Persuaded her to flee and sail away…. A golden age A beauty queen who was all the rage. A shining star. With looks and fame she must be Hedy Lamarr. A secret place. Inventions that the world would embrace. She raised the bar. With brains and braun she must be Hedy Lamarr. Glamour was the game and the movies a coming attraction For what was in store. Daring and brave navigating a maze, Changing radio waves, Blocking enemy ways. Designs for winning a war. . The silver screen. Her sultry life gave way to a scheme. The scientific door was ajar… So chic and shrewd, she must be Hedy Lamarr. Solos. Interlude. At a dinner party Hedy met a music man. They realized torpedo signals were easy to jam. Their newfound technology was radio hopping frequencies Our missiles now would surely stay their course. A patent, it was signed. Expired then desired in time. Her wireless ways have taken us far. This pioneer is truly Hedy Lamarr.
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Stella Splendida (Bright Star)
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Against The Current
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She Who Stayed To Prove The Day
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Courage Is A Woman
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Rise Up!
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Queen Of Disguise
10.
Adorn The World

about

These songs were composed with great reverence for these ten remarkable and courageous women. They fought for their passion, their voice, and most of all, for their vision to improve the world.

I came to this project as a blank slate. I didn’t know a single woman in a STEM field. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. I avoided all of these subjects in school.

However, women in STEM is a hot topic these days and I had been reading about some amazing advances made by women in these fields. I was not only impressed by how anyone could understand the complicated concepts involved in science and technology but also to accomplish so much in a male dominated profession. So, I started reading.

Every person has a story. I found hundreds of stories of women in science going as far back as ancient times. It then dawned on me that I could tell these stories through music. I would create “musical portraits”, if you will, about a handful of diverse women from different backgrounds and periods of history.

And so it began. A two-year journey of scaling down my list to ten fascinating lives, some living and some long gone. No doubt you’ve heard of a few of them, but mostly you’d never know about the others. Heroes working behind the scenes. As women, they have struggled to achieve despite their cultures, their male peers and their own families. Their stories are certainly unique.

In Sunetra Gupta’s case, she is a theoretical epidemiologist AND a writer of fiction and non-fiction. I wrote the lyrics to “Queen Of Disguise” as if she is writing the scientific tale of how the flu bug enters a cell as a masquerader. The battle between the virus and the cell is like a game of chess....at least in Ms. Gupta’s eyes! So the song isn’t so much about her as it is about her understanding of the war that is fought inside the body.

One common thread I found between myself and all of these women is a passion for what we do. In some ways, they are like musicians. Always in the moment and never giving up on what they want to achieve. Female musicians have had to overcome some of the same obstacles as women of STEM.

I honor these women and have a deep respect for who they are and what they have done. I encourage you to read further, beyond the descriptions here, about these beautiful minds, who they are, where they came from and how we benefit every day from their achievements.

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releases August 20, 2021

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