Transatlantic duo Thammudu & Mishti have released a new electronic album Matters of Ascension on the great music label Tobago Tracks. Their work ranges across the spectrum from ambient to club music. The track “From Earth to Heaven” sounds a bit The Field in both music and song title. But it’s actually a reference to Marx’s The German Philosophy. In it he critiques Hegelian idealism, writing, “In direct contrast to German philosophy, which descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven.” Now I’m not a materialist like Marx . But this song is so blissfully seductive it makes me wish I was! The blasphemous idea that we can create a heaven on Earth is a classic political motivator and I’m happy to see Thammudu & Mishti keep it alive. The utopian promise contained within the glittering ambience dies down towards the end, leaving only the sounds of people presumably marching toward progress, ascension.
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