Lustmord - Trinity
(c) 2020 Self-released
Artist....: Lustmord
Album.....: Trinity
Source....: WEB/WAV
Tracks....: 6
Genre.....: Dark Ambient
Label.....: Self-released
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 240 kbps / 441kHz / Joint Stereo
URL.......: http://lustmord.bandcamp.com/album/trinity
Tracklist:
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1. Twilight: Los Alamos 16:00
2. Oak Ridge 9:35
3. Dusk: White Sands 8:56
4. Journey Of The Dead Man 9:14
5. Surface Zero 8:41
6. A New Dawn: Hiroshima 13:39
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66:05
Total:118.72MB / 66:05
Release Notes:
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At 5:30 am on 16 July 1945 the first atomic weapon was detonated at the
Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Rang in the Jornada Del Muerte desert, New
Mexico. The test was codenamed TRINITY.
The resulting explosion had an energy equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT and was
the largest man made explosion up to that time. Its now iconic mushroom cloud
reached 7.5 miles (12.1 km) in height, and the shock wave was felt over 100
miles (160 km) away. We have lived in its shadow ever since.
The test was a part of The Manhattan Project, a research and development effort
to produce the first nuclear weapon during World War II.
Began in 1939, The Manhattan Project employed more than 130,000 people at over
30 sites across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada and cost nearly
US $2 billion (about $357.5 billion in 2020 dollars). At the time it was the
largest construction project in history, and depended on groundbreaking advances
in theoretical physics along with solutions to formidable scientific challenges.
All in unprecedented secrecy with no more than a few dozen people in the world
knowing its true purpose, and only a thousand or so others even aware that the
work was of an atomic nature.
Following the success of the TRINITY test, the atomic bomb Little Boy was
detonated the following month over Hiroshima on August 6, and on August 9 a
second bomb Fat Man was detonated over Nagasaki.
It is estimated that 200,000 people died as a result of these two detonations.
For millennia we as a species have successfully killed each other at an alarming
rate, but with TRINITY we gained the power to kill a thousandfold more in an
instant.
At this very moment hundreds of millions of people around the world are a direct
target of a nuclear missile.
credits
released October 2, 2020
LustmordÆs TRINITY was originally commissioned by Unsound Festival in 2012 as a
live presentation, with the project being developed further for this album
version.
It includes location recordings made at Los Alamos National Laborites, where the
atom bomb was developed and at Jornada Del Muerte Alamogordo Air Base (aka White
Sands), New Mexico where the first bomb was detonated, along with audio gathered
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Archive via the Freedom of Information
Act.