God Is an Astronaut the band became a quartet with keyboardist/guitarist Jamie Dean joining the band. God Is an Astronaut's sixth full-length album, "Origins" was released in 2013. They then went on tour performing in places such as China, Russia, Brazil and Europe. In June 2015, this was followed up with "Helios Erebus". God Is an Astronaut performed at the Eurosonic Festival in 2012 when Ireland was the "Spotlight Country". The band's live performances often make use of projected, self-edited footage along with lighting arrangements to form what the band calls a "full audio visual show". Each song is accompanied by its own video.
Chinese as a foreign language use of Westerners. Due to the status of Guangzhou as the only Chinese port open to foreign trade and exchange in the 1700s, Cantonese became the variety of Chinese that came into the most interaction with the Western world in early modern times. Foreign works on Chinese were largely centered around this variant until the opening up of other Chinese regions for commerce through unequal treaties, which exposed European scholars to a much larger number of Chinese varieties. In 1814, a chair of Chinese and Manchu was founded at the Collège de France, and Abel-Rémusat became the first Professor of