Lemuria
1. Too Late
2. Transparent 
3. Quixotry 
4. Everything's Going To Be OK
5. Shedding Skin (What Is It Trying To Show Me)
6. Waiting To Be
7. Yellow Bird
8. Feel The Rain

Released May 1, 2024

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by James Messina
Executive Production and Chief Engineering by Julian Maultsby
instrument and vocal sessions track 1 Engineered by Nick Bedo
instrument sessions track 2,4,5,6,7 Engineered by TJ Spurge
drum sessions track 1-7 Engineered by Brandon Hanna
duet vocals track 6 Engineered by Krist Kettles
all other vocal sessions, percussion sessions on track 2&5, instrument sessions track 3 and all of track 8 as well as all other loose ends and recording coordination engineered by Julian

John Velsor: Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizers, Bass, Percussion track 5
Ryan Griffin: Drums track 2
Julian Maultsby: Drums all other tracks, Percussion tracks 2 & 5, Bass track 3
Krist Kettles: Vocals track 6
TJ Spurge: Electronic Drum Programming tracks 6 & 7
Backing Vocals & Hand Claps track 2 by John & Julian

Written and Arranged by John Velsor

Recorded November 30, 2022 - January 26, 2024.
Recorded in Lake Como & Scranton PA, Ghent in Upstate NY, Albertson, Wantagh, & Kings Park on Long Island NY.
Mixed in Bellmore NY & Scranton PA
Mastering completed March 26, 2024 in Bellmore NY

Album cover Layout by James, Photograph by John

all rights reserved

Astronauto - Lemuria (Full Album)

off of the first self titled astronauto record. produced by Nick Bedo of RUCKZUCK. 

Luna (Radio Edit)

off of the first self titled astronauto record. produced by Nick Bedo of RUCKZUCK. 

Tried to show you what exactly was going on in my head, and maybe tell you what I might've said/ but I won't be ok if I stay this way, I just can't take another day without finding out 

 Won't you tell me what I've done, what's the cause or the reason, that you can't feel the way I feel/ or understand, or ever show anything that resembles love at all 

 Why does it have to take so long/ don't they know I'll be gone before too long/ Can't they see how far we've come/ nothing ends, it changes over and over, and over again 

 Well I don't need you or anybody, don't try and stop me I'm gone, you know as well as I do that I don't belong/ I can't explain I don't feel the same as anyone who's gone or came through my life 

 (chorus) 
 (chorus)

Renovo Sunshine (Radio Edit)

off of the first self titled astronauto record. produced by Nick Bedo of RUCKZUCK. 

Your dark cave shadow eyes follow transgressions down the line/ it's time you've recognized the fleeting signs of your own life/ and if all that I can say would just make you walk away/ and if it's just one more day could ever stay, would you ever stay? 

 You know it's just like me to hide my face at times like these/ not sure if all that you see could ever be meant to deceive 

 Leave your bygones on the highway, in a different part of town/ for tomorrow we all set sail for a brand new horizon/ the needle of circumstance will sew the threads of time/ for one day we will all be ordinary, never asking why 

 (chorus) 

 If dark tongues speak in silence there is no patience in disguise/ no echoes from the forest can see the damage in our eyes/ if all your love is treason then there is no choosing sides/ there was never any reason if there's no such thing as time 

 (chorus) 

 well you know it's just like me 
 well you know it's just like me

Just Like Me (Radio Edit)

Entire Record unedited on one track. 

Music and words written and performed by John T. Velsor 
 Produced engineered and mastered by Nick Bedo, over a course of 4 days in Renovo, PA November 2015 

 Additional guitar on track 2, melodica on track 5 by Nick 
 Additional percussion by Faith Kelly, Nick & Matt Bedo of RUCKZUCK ! 

 Cover Photos, layout and design by Nick 

 All songs published by Velsongs Ltd. 

Astronauto (Full Album)

Written By John T. Velsor

"Take your time and it will be alright although life has been mistreating you and it still won't get much easier hold on, hold on for a while
Tried to feel the changes that you've seen no I can't say where we're going, or if I am in control of it so hold on, hold on for a while

Oh Oh I just lose control, don't know where to go without you

It's all real and there's no time to feel, so keep your head down, try to blend in to the crowd and just go on, go on for a while
people change and what else can I say? No I'm not trying to ignore it, I'm just tired of feeling all of this so go on, just go on for a while

Oh Oh I just lose control, don't know where to go, without you
Oh Oh never let it show, never let them know about you

performed by John T. Velsor, produced by Nick Bedo

Photo Single

Photographic Memory

Written By John T. Velsor
There you stand with your back up against the wall, try to tell yourself nothing ever even happened at all/ you can't explain though you try to play along, but this is not the way that things should have been at all
ooohh, what do I have to do to make you understand that I've done everything I can?/ooohh, they say you did what you had to do, I tried to understand why you couldn't make it in the end
Find a way to have it make sense all along but every word you say knocks down a bridge and builds a wall/ You can't escape, except to face what you've become but like they've always said, why's it always easier said than done?
ooohh, what do I have to do to make you understand that I've done everything I can?/ooohh, they say you did what you had to do, I tried to understand why you couldn't make it in the end

Produced by Nick Bedo

Astronauto II (MP3's)

There You Stand

Written, Arranged and Performed by John Velsor.
Produced, Engineered and additional instrumentation by Nick Bedo
2017 Velsongs inc. 

Astronauto II (The Neon Album)
1.Photographic Memory
2.Gone
3.Flight Risk
4.There You Stand
5.Close Or Far
6.The Abduction
7.Questioning Answers
8.Waves
9.How Can We Know?
10.There You Stood

Astronauto II (Entire Album)

Written, Arrange and Performed by John Velsor
Produced and Engineered by Nick Bedo, Mastered by Nick Bedo and James Messina

I get high when you say hello/ If I can't hide these feelings I'll let them show/ and if it does more harm than good/ I won't be surprised because you told me it would/ be that way
Try to fly/ don't be shocked to hit the ground/ don't wonder why nobody ever comes around/ I never found a better solution than sitting here in quiet seclusion/ every night

All I know is every time I try a little harder, you get pushed a little bit further/ I'm not sure if I should surrender, or if I should try to tell you that/ all the actions and words we say come back to us in different shades/ you've been walking on helping hands/ whenever I had one to lend/ but oh oh oh oh oh oh please don't say it's over now

I know that I/ sometimes have a hard time living/ and that the sky/ is filled with stars to tell you/ just exactly who I am/ whether or not we ever can/ find our way
It's up to you/ whether or not it all comes true/ your attitude/ will decide the path you choose/ and if you walked for just one minute in the shoes that I've been filling/ you'd see why

(Why?) every time I try a little harder, you get pushed a little bit further/ I'm not sure if I should surrender, or if I should try to tell you that/ all the actions and words we say come back to us in different shades/ you've been walking on helping hands/ whenever I had one to lend/ but oh oh oh oh oh oh please don't say it's over now

(oh why?) every time you try a little harder, I get pushed a little bit further/ I'm not sure if I should surrender, or if I should try to tell you that/ all the actions and words we say come back to us in different shades/ I've been walking on helping hands/ whenever you had one to lend/ but oh oh oh oh oh oh please don't say it's over now

Please Don't Say It's Over

released January 2, 2018 

Astronauto III
1.What Have I Done?
2.Tomorrow Morning/Elephant Man
3.Nothing Left To Say
4.Please
5.It Is Time
6.What Are We Even Asking For?
7.Lynbrook Moonlight
8.Don't Say It's Over

Written, arranged and performed by John Velsor 
Produced and engineered by Nick Bedo 
Mastered by Nick and James "The Hat" Messina 
some additional percussion supplied by Nick, Matt Bedo and Robert Henry Cox II 

Recorded in Lynbrook NY, summer 2017 
Mixed in Tobyhanna PA and East Rockaway NY, fall 2017 
Mastered in Wantagh NY, winter/ December 23, 2017 

Artwork by John

Astronauto III (entire album)

The music of Astronauto is a sound as peaceful as it is jarring. Introspective folk realism collides head on with expansive electronic dreamscapes, using on the way everything from acoustic guitars to fuzz basses, analog synths to manipulated paint cans.

Astronauto

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