A weekly steel-drift instrumental series blending jazz, trip-hop, Americana noir, and classic cocktails — a ritual told in lantern-light and memory.

HP Sessions is a 40-week sonic ritual — a long-form tribute to Paul, legacy, and the American heartline.
Each week pairs a handcrafted Steel Drift instrumental with a classic cocktail, filmed like a noir postcard from another lifetime:

porch-light glow, vintage TV hum, steel-guitar breath, ghost-air fog, and the quiet myth of a man who shaped a generation.

Every session is a portal:
steel-guitar jazz, trip-hop drift, psychedelic blues, Americana noir, and that unmistakable Honolulu Paul glow.

This isn’t just music — it’s a ritual of memory and reinvention.
A 40-week story told in lantern-light, smoke, and sound.

Fridays at midnight.
A new drink.
A new world.

Honolulu Paul Sessions

Vieux Carré — Under a Blood-Red Moon
A neo-jazz / lo-fi fusion built around warm 1950s-style pedal steel guitar, drifting Rhodes chords, upright bass, and a dusty trip-hop sway. Slow bends, vinyl crackle, and a late-night New Orleans glow.
85 BPM · mellow · cinematic · midnight mood.

Vieux-Carré

A smoky-bar triphop drift with steel-guitar soul.
“Martinez” blends warm pedal-steel slides, late-night Rhodes chords, and a slow-burn hip-hop pulse.
Cinematic, moody, and made for after-hours — inspired by my grandfather’s 1950s steel guitar roots, reimagined through the 40 Spirits lens.

Week 2 of the Honolulu Paul Sessions.

Martinez

Steel Drift pushes into electric dream territory on Week 3 of the Honolulu Paul Sessions. Psychedelic jazz fusion twists with glitchy hip-hop pulses, steel guitar bending wild neon arcs over Rhodes haze and drifting horn echoes. A wired, fever-bright groove at ~118 BPM pulls you into a storm of movement where rhythm mutates and light trembles. Paired with the Monkey Gland cocktail — gin and orange igniting bright while absinthe whispers its green riddle — this week hits like sparks inside the electric fog.

Monkey-Gland

Aurora-born RUIN79 doesn’t make songs — he builds worlds.
A genre-shifting storyteller blending trap, blues, drill, noir jazz, steel-guitar drift, ambient smoke, and poetic grit into a signature process he calls Digital Verse Composition.

His work spans multiple realities:
• The Devil’s Ledger — a haunted blues-trap mythology
• Digital Verses — parallel-universe mutations of the ledger
• Honolulu Paul Sessions — a 40-week steel-drift ritual pairing jazz, Americana, and classic cocktails
• ILLA Workshop — the creative engine behind every realm

RUIN79’s music isn’t defined by sound — it’s defined by truth, intention, and world-building.
Every track is a portal.
Every project, a universe.
Every release, a chapter in the myth.

Honolulu Paul Sessions

RUIN79 - Illa Workshop