The Astronaut scours the universe for answers regarding The Nebula's mysterious origins, its path, and whether its destructive tempest can be stopped.

Part six of a narrative in sound project I'm working on called 'The Astronaut'

Searching

Tribute to Lyle Mays (1953-2020) part I.

Jonas Brogren: keyboards and production
Mauritz Petersson: drums
Karl Hugosson: bass and guitar
Magnus Brogren: percussion

The Call

Evening Shade

bandcamp

At School

Old Stompin' Grounds (Valencia Mix)

This is my recording for open collaboration by https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo

Music by E-Ruizzo except guitar lines by Daniel Gomez.
All instruments by E-Ruizzo except guitars by Daniel Gomez.
Produced and mixed by E-Ruizzo except guitar lines by Daniel Gomez.

You can hear the other artists here:

https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo/sets/smiling-dudette-open

E-Ruizzo & Icarus: Smiling Dudette (Collaboration Project)

This is a new version of a piece that has had a long histroy and means a great deal to me too.  It is taken from a much longer orchestrated piece called Flight which is posted.  If any of my pieces are autobiographic Flight is that piece and, if it is about me, it is the journey of me growing up and coming to America only to discover that we can not run-away from our past.  The adagio section (which is just orchestrated for string orchestra in this version) represents the mourning of the untimely loss of my beautiful mum.  It occurred just as my first child had been born in the States.  I dedicate this work to her.

I would also like to share Mariza Costa-Cabral comment at 6:09 as I think she has described it the best "Beautiful. It seems to be a person overwhelmed with emotion, as when they lose one of their most beloved and important persons in life. Painful and poignant. Of course, it is impossible to represent this kind of pain without beauty, because the pain is all about the beauty and the precious value of what is lost. And it is in fact a piece filled with beauty."

Thank you again Mariza so much.  Your comment goes beyond music.

As always, I hope you enjoy.

P.S. Please let me know if anyone is interested in performing this work, the score is available.

Farewell Revisited - An Adagio for Strings (Score available)

Working on a new version of Nothing Compares to You. Hope you like it. Still a work in progress!  This is a great love song written by Prince. He wrote it for his maid when she went away...

Nothing Compares 2 U

Vapour of darkness inside the mind and soul

Vapour of Darkness

This track is a reflection on Ray Bradbury's short story:
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

Painting by Bea Palatinus: 
https://www.beapalatinus.com/

Machines - There Will Come Soft Rains

Most of this piece was recorded in 2016 but I abandoned it until I decided to clean my computer files up recently. I added the vocals and a few horn samples to "finish" it off.
It's "sister" piece which takes the same bass loops, speeds them up and takes it all to a very different place can be listened to here:
https://soundcloud.com/graeme-mc-pherson/1-minute-40-seconds

The original spoken word sample is by "wjoojoo" and can be found here:
https://freesound.org/people/Speedenza/sounds/263544/

They Dug Everything Out Of The Earth

Credits:
Jonas Brogren - keyboards, compositions & production
Karl Hugosson - bass & guitars
Maria Grunditz - vocals
Jacob Brogren - saxes, flute, clarinet, bass, horn arrangements
Erik Salomonsson - flute
Magnus Brogren - drums & percussion
Mauritz Petersson - drums
Cecilia Odlind - photo
Jens Fredholm - guitar
Dan Boissy - saxes
Gergo Bille - trumpet
Alice Odlind - trumpet
Luke Markham - drums
Hadrien Feraud - bass
Gergo Borlai - drums
Sergio Wagner - trumpet
Hiro Sakaba - bass