“She Blinded Me with Science” catapulted synth-pop artist Thomas Dolby into the mainstream in 1982.
A new album, A Map of the Floating City, is due out this summer.
On March 28, Dolby will release Oceanea, a three-track EP filled
“The new songs are organic and very personal,” explains Dolby. “The songs on Oceanea are a reflection of my natural home on the windswept English coastline.”
Check out what he’s been doing:
–he writes and records on a solar and wind-powered 1930s lifeboat near his beach house in East Anglia.
— after quitting the music business in the early ’90s, Dolby worked in Silicon Valley,
–he founded tech company Beatnik Inc. and co-invented the polyphonic ringtone synthesizer embedded in more than two billion Nokia mobile phones.
–In 2001 he became Musical Director of the TED Conference, an annual event in Long Beach, California that attracts some of the world’s foremost thinkers, inventors, and speakers. he provides live musical introductions to sessions, sometimes with an eclectic TED House Band, as well as helping secure guest musicians and entertainers for the event.
–created social network-based game, The Floating City, to be launched this spring via Facebook, Twitter, and The Flat Earth Society. It allows fans to listen to songs in advance by solving puzzles and finding clues.
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