Here I just used a few passages from the Book of Isaiah, chapter 14, sung in Italian over the Francesco and Rosin beautiful collaboration. This powerful chapter in the Old Testament compares the king of Babylon to Lucifer, the fallen angel. In the troubled history of mankind we were never short of kings of Babylon. Perhaps someday...

Il soggiorno dei morti si agita per te, per venire a incontrarti al tuo arrivo.
Tutti prendono la parola e ti dicono:
Anche tu dunque sei diventato debole come noi?

Come mai sei caduto dal cielo,
astro mattutino, figlio dell'aurora?
Come mai sei atterrato,
tu che calpestavi le nazioni?

Tu dicevi in cuor tuo: Lo salirò in cielo,
innalzerò il mio trono al di sopra delle stelle di Dio.

Invece ti hanno fatto discendere nel soggiorno dei morti,
nelle profondità della fossa!
Sotto di te sta un letto di vermi,
e i vermi sono la tua coperta.

It's Almost Dawn JFC (over Francesco Cartocci Instrumental ft. Rosin Dust)

*** NOTE June 2024: Generative AI is becoming amazingly powerful. Nothing against it. Just to avoid the confusion and embarrassment of finding ourselves praising and encouraging mindless algorithms, I believe it would be nice for us to always disclose its usage in our tracks. What do you think?  ***

Hello, welcome to my page.

I've been making music with Pedro Castro since 1972. At the time, we created the alternative rock band Petrus Castrus. The music I'm placing here are just the home recordings of ongoing projects and ideas. I created a few playlists (Inéditos) according to language (PO - Portuguese; EN - English; SP - Spanish; FR - French; IT - Italian), and also for concept albums (Três Jardins). There are two long tracks (Mediterrâneo and Isaías) for full concept albums. A playlist called Synergies gathers the collaboration projects with other musicians in the fantastic SoundCloud community.

Petrus Castrus edited records can be found on Spotify and Soundcloud. See the Facebook Petrus Castrus page for more details, including comments about the recordings uploaded here. 

We are both amateur musicians, i.e. music lovers. As for me, I'm just an electrical engineer with a master in AI that really loves creating music and use it to share ideas. That is why all tracks include lyrics or texts.

Enjoy!

It's Almost Dawn JFC (over Francesco Cartocci Instrumental ft. Rosin Dust)

José F Castro - JFC (Petrus Castrus)