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MP3 Dead City Rodents - The Burgess Album
19 MP3 Songs in this album (109:26) !
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The fossil-beds containing the Burgess Shale were discovered in 1909 by the paleontologist Charles Walcott. They are located near Field in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. One quarry is located on Mount Burgess, the other is on Mount Stephen. The anatomies of organisms from the middle Cambrian epoch (over 500 million years ago) are imprinted upon the rock, constituting objectively immortal evidence of their existence.
The creatures of the Burgess Shale provoke as much anxiety and questioning in relation to our own finite existences (what are we? why are we here? what is all of this anyway?) as they do wonder. The Burgess Shale fossils point to a time in which Nature experimented radically with life, a majority of the Burgess organisms having exceedingly bizarre morphologies. Many of them do not have a symmetrical body-structure that is common to the higher organisms of our own evolutionary epoch. Their anatomical features are strange, and do not lend themselves to explanation through any readily identifiable biological function or behavior. But the creatures themselves are not to be considered evolutionary dead ends, or as beings that were ill equipped for long-term adaptation to their environment. Rather, they are to be considered as intrinsically valuable strands of the chain of life, their emergence having extremely important significance in a time of evolutionary transition. A handful of the creatures survived and evolved, such as the small ribbon-shaped, worm-like creature, Pikaia gracilens, which passed down an important advantage to subsequent life-forms.
As Walcott identified, Pikaia is a primitive chordate, namely, having a notochord or a stiffened dorsal rod along its back, Pikaia being among the earliest evolutionary ancestors to vertebrates. In the book ''A Wonderful Life'' (1989), evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould makes the claim that
"Pikaia is the missing and final link in our story of contingency - the direct connection between Burgess decimation and eventual human evolution. … Wind the tape of life back to Burgess times, and let it play again. If Pikaia does not survive in the replay, we are wiped out of future history - all of us, from shark to robin to orangutan. . . . If you wish to ask the question of the ages - why do humans exist? - a major part of the answer, touching those aspects of the issue that science can treat at all, must be: because Pikaia survived the Burgess decimation." (pp. 322-323)
The fascinating evolutionary story of the Burgess creatures, captured here in this reflective musical tribute, exudes the struggles, the tragedies, the feelings, the hopes, and the triumphs that are shared by all life-forms, across bioregions, species, and membranes. We hope that you will enjoy rewinding and replaying this tape of life back to Burgess times. . .
Dead City Rodents is a collective of independent sound experimentalists based near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Our music is atmospheric indie-prog. We use mostly organic instruments - guitars, bass, drums, vintage keyboards, as well as lots of E-bow, theremin, and whatever else might make an interesting sound. This is our 8th album; the first to be digitally released.
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