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Hickey: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind / Rumyantsev
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Hickey: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind / Rumyantsev

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Details

Composer
Sean Hickey
Artist
Vladimir Rumyantsev
Format
CD
Label
Sono Luminus
Released
Mar 14, 2025
Catalog #
DSL-92285
UPC
053479228505

About

Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, first published in 2011 in Hebrew, and in 2014 in English, is justifiably one of the most celebrated books of our time. With its audacious subtitle, the book attempts to explain and explore why our particular species has thrived while most others have perished, and how we are set apart from all others due to our ability and desire to understand and give meaning to things that do not necessarily exist – such as the shared myths of language, money, religion, love, political boundaries, and a host of things not truly tangible but with which we have developed a shared understanding. What I have attempted is a humble musical response to human signposts, concepts, myths, or ideas that we as a species have carried with us, developing along the way these past couple hundred thousand or so years – breadcrumbs on the path of humanity. I imagined the modern piano as a sort of meta-instrument, present at the dawns of humankind, the cognitive and agricultural revolutions, and some of the most notable inflection points of our troubled and triumphant history. The piece begins not on the piano, but at the piano, with a single human breath, as I imagine the first music to have been, somewhere near the dawn of our species. If it is, like most, intended to die off one day, I imagine the very last music to sound more or less the same.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Pre-History 07:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Pre-History
    Duration
    07:35
    Composer
    Sean Hickey
    Performer
    Vladimir Rumyantsev
  2. 2 II. Lascaux 05:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Lascaux
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Sean Hickey
    Performer
    Vladimir Rumyantsev
  3. 3 III. Fertile Crescent 09:50
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Fertile Crescent
    Duration
    09:50
    Composer
    Sean Hickey
    Performer
    Vladimir Rumyantsev
  4. 4 IV. Jericho 06:21
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Jericho
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Sean Hickey
    Performer
    Vladimir Rumyantsev
  5. 5 V. Mean Temperament 03:49
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Mean Temperament
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Sean Hickey
    Performer
    Vladimir Rumyantsev
  6. 6 VI. Double Helix 07:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Double Helix
    Duration
    07:52
    Composer
    Sean Hickey
    Performer
    Vladimir Rumyantsev
  7. 7 VII. Confirmation Bias 04:17
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Confirmation Bias
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Sean Hickey
    Performer
    Vladimir Rumyantsev
  8. 8 VIII. Commonwealth 08:24
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. Commonwealth
    Duration
    08:24
    Composer
    Sean Hickey
    Performer
    Vladimir Rumyantsev