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Stream: Sarah Brightman's 'Dreamchaser' album

Brian Mansfield, Special for USA TODAY
Sarah Brightman will release 'Dreamchaser,' her first album in five years, on April 16 in the USA.
  • %27Dreamchaser%27 features songs by Paul McCartney%2C Sigur Ros%2C the Cocteau Twins and Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Brightman hopes to travel to the International Space Station in 2015
  • She will begin a North American tour in September

Sarah Brightman hopes to be the first person to record a song in outer space in two years. Her new album, Dreamchaser, could be her playlist while she prepares for the trip.

" 'Space' was a my palette — the universe, deeper feelings, humankind, planets, stars, all those things that evoke so many emotions in all of us," says the internationally renowned classical crossover artist.

The album, out April 16 in the USA, features songs by Paul McCartney, Sigur Ros, the Cocteau Twins, as well as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and contemporary Polish composer Henryk Gorecki.

On Dreamchaser, Brightman's notion of space doesn't mean just the place where the moon and the stars are. It also contains that ancient notion of "The Heavens."

"It's about our imagination, the metaphysical side of us," she says. "That's why I wanted to call the album Dreamchaser. Our imagination is incredibly powerful. She gives us a map to what may be in the future. Also, imagination is dreaming about something, how we chase the dream, the journey we go on."

Brightman hopes that her journey will take her to the International Space Station. She has expressed interest in suborbital tourist flights and is a cosmonaut-in-training for an orbital journey that could take place in 2015.

"I was brought up in the '60s, and space was incredibly relevant at that time," says the 52-year-old singer, who will tour North America beginning in September. "Space exploration was at the forefront of our minds. We had the first man landing on the moon. It was on television. They were making space dramas, from Lost in Space to the Starship Enterprise. I was very, very influenced by this."

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