"Sister From Another Planet"
by Charles Mudede
An excellent feature article was just published in The Stranger on my family Meklit Hadero and the music of CopperWire. Among so many quotables, I really appreciated this one about CopperWire's Earthbound:
"It did not make sense to me, until I read these words by the great and late biologist Lynn Margulis in the book Symbiotic Planet: "If people ever journey for extended periods in outer space, the endeavor will never be as machinate and barren as Star Trek. The vision of sterile engineering emancipating us from our planetmates is not only tasteless and boring, it borders on the hideous. No matter how much our own species preoccupies us, life is a far wider system. Life is an incredibly complex interdependence of matter and energy among millions of species beyond (and within) our own skin... Without 'the other,' we do not survive." This was exactly the kind of science/sonic fiction imagined by CopperWire. It was all about life supporting life, life-forms living with other life-forms, life beginning and ending with life."
Check the whole article here, and if you are in Seattle check Meklit at Jazz Alley this Wednesday!
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