Cosmic View

How pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory make dazzling discoveries of astronomical phenomena beyond human experience and imagination.

Cosmic Swing Orchestra is a twelve piece jazz band dedicated to inspiring people to open their brains to an anti-capitalist and noncommercial view of life. The band was formed on Petter Dalane’s initiative in 2018, and since then Cosmic has grown to become a collective effort drawing on all the band members strengths as musicians and human beings. Heavily inspired by Sun Ra as an intellectual, musician, communicator and performer, their lyrics mainly revolve around issues such as the climate crisis, mass extinction and social in-equality. Like Sun Ra they try to communicate these serious themes with a lot of humour and fun, for as Dalai Lama famously said, when people are laughing, they are open to changing their minds.