Anna Domino Trust, In Love (1984)
“At the break of a mild day in April in the year 13 799 000 000, another edition of a brilliant music newsletter called The Rest was sent to its many kind subscribers …” What sounds like the introduction to a cheesy sci-fi novel centered around our endeavor is, according to the Lambda cold dark matter model, the actual truth about what just happened. The ΛCDM, as the mathematical model is abbreviated, determines the amount of years passed since the Big Bang. Although it has often been challenged, it remains the standard model of Big Bang cosmology due to its relative simplicity. The ΛCDM is one of many models to pinpoint the year we are living in. In the Western world the Gregorian calendar, according to which the year is 2024, is the most popular one. This calendar is based on the commonly acknowledged year of the birth of Jesus that is referred to as “Anno Domini”—which is medieval Latin and means “in the year of the Lord.” This very term served American musician Anna Virginia Taylor when looking for an alias back in the 1980s, as she explained in a recent interview. She was about to travel to Brussels to record music for the post-punk label Les Disques du Crépuscule—people she didn’t know at the time. Scared by the idea of how little control she had over what might come out of the process, she decided to use a pseudonym from which she could distance herself if necessary. Fortunately, the recording session in Brussels went well, the nimble indie track “Trust, In Love” being one of the results.
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