This is the very first full length debut album of Rauno Pella Project.
It took me more than ten years to finish but I am super stoked to finally share this album with you that features more than 60 musicians from 5 different countries. 
A lot of pain and effort went into making this a reality, but here it is. 
I would like to thank all musicians and recording/mixing and mastering engineers that were involved in this project, but most of all I am grateful to all the listeners for having such incredible amount of patience. 
Hope you all enjoy

Drifting Towards Serenity (feat. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Triin Lutsoja)

Lullaby (feat. Anneke van Giersbergen, Ain Agan)

Farewell To The Lonely Days (feat. Mikk Tammepõld)

Vicious Circle  (feat. Oliver Timmusk, Ain Agan)

Breathe (feat. Gavin Harrison, Mikk Saar, Hanna Martinson)

I Don't Mean To Stalk (feat. Pille-Riin Karro)

Twelve 22 (feat. Tuuli Rand)

Comfort Zone (feat. Raahel)

Five Meets Six (feat. Marta Aliide Jakovski)

Light Pt 1

My second album "Blue Frost" is finally up for all of you to enjoy. 
It took me 5 years of writing and 4 months to complete the finished product, but it is finally ready and I sincerely hope you all like it.

Blue Frost Pt 2

Forgive Me

Fallout

Acceptance

The Love That Never Was (feat. Keio Vutt)

Vertigo

Break The Pattern (feat. Mikk Saar, Eric Kammiste)

Enamoured (feat. Marianne Leibur, Niko Tsonev)

Blue Frost Pt 1

The Opening Track from my solo album. It features the amazing Anneke van Giersbergen on vocals. I have been a fan of her for years and this is just too good to be true that we had this fantastic collaboration on Lullaby. 
On lead guitar is Ain Agan, who laid down an incredibly musical guitar solo. On bass is the one and only Mai Agan and on drums one of my all time favorite drummers Morgan Ågren. 
This song is about following your heart and going after your dream and being brave. There is always the danger to fall for second guessing yourself, but the dream might slip away forever when not following it.

Lullaby (Feat. Anneke Van Giersbergen)

This song was all one take when I first wrote it. The acoustic guitar that is playing the chords is all improvised and I built the song on top of it. 
On piano is my long time friend Rain Rämmal who laid down an incredible solo and on electric guitar is another long time friend Kalle Pilli, who also plays guitars in my band Rauno Pella Project. 
With this instrumental tune I wanted to capture a vibe similar to Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau duo records and I think we got pretty close to it.

Patience

This is a song which I wrote back in September 2016 with a good friend of mine called Merilyn Tiit. I actually wrote the music and she advised me to try out 7/8 time signature in the chorus section which actually made the composition more interesting in my opinion. It took us around 2 hours to come up with the lyrics. 
The song is about letting go of the negativity and opening up your mind to potential opportunities waiting to be discovered and facing your fears and letting go of things which haven't worked out fine.

Awakening (feat. Merilyn Tiit)

This song idea is actually pretty old and I wrote it already back in the summer of 2014, but for some reason I kinda felt that the timing wasn't right and I didn't really have the inspiration for the lyrics, but just couple of weeks ago I got the inspiration. Recorded the string arrangement and wrote vocals and sent them to my long time friend and an awesome singer Triin Lutsoja. She had just one day to learn the song and we recorded it just 3 weeks ago, but it came out quickly and it is one of my favorite songs on this EP. 
The lyrics deal with the depression and thoughts of a dying man and the struggle and sadness which goes through his head during his final minutes as he realizes that it is time to leave this place. 
A beautiful song with some rather dark lyrics, but inspiration does not always have to come from positive things in life.

Moving Forward (feat. Triin Lutsoja)

This is the debut single from my upcoming album "When Light Embraced The Dark". On guest vocals is the lovely Tuuli Rand. 
Hope you guys enjoy. 

Rauno

Twelve 22(feat. Tuuli Rand)

Here it finally is: The long awaited second single from my upcoming debut album called. 
Breathe is the newest song on my album and I wrote the opening riff back in December 2017. Hanna and Mikk are both good friends of mine and the lyrics were finished only a day before we went into the studio. Good friend Kaarel Tamra recorded the vocals, as well as acoustic guitars and did a stellar mix. 
Legendary Drummer Gavin Harrison is on drums and as I have been a massive fan of his work for the past 9 years, it truly amazing that he agreed to work on my track. A huge respect and hopefully I will manage to work with him in the future as well. 
Last but not least, I'd like to thank a long time friend Janek Kivi for a well balanced mastering which really took the song to a brand new level. 

Hope you guys dig this one. Single nr 3 will be out at the end of April so 

Stay Tuned! 

Rauno

My name is Rauno Pella. 
I was born and raised in a small south-western Estonian town called Pärnu. My interest in music started in early childhood - I guess I was only five years old when I started to have an interest in my dads huge record collection and a the first band that really took grabbed my attention was Queen with their charismatic frontman Freddie Mercury. I loved the powerful sounding guitars of Brian May, strong pocket groove of drummer Roger Taylor and the bass player John Deacon was also a strong player that added a nice texture to the rhythmic section. 
As I became older and started to take drum lessons at the age of 11, I had already been practicing drums for three years and was playing along with my favorite Rammstein records. 
Influences: 
Bands such as Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, 36 Crazyfists, Bullet For My Valentine etc forced me to push my playing skill to the next level as the band, where I was playing (Mushy), played metal-core music witch needed some thunderous double bass drumming and fast technical fills. Drummers like Chris Adler & Mike Portnoy were the ones that influenced me a lot. During that period I also started to practice seriously guitar and with only a few months I had managed to transcribe all riffs and solos from Lamb of God's 2006 album called "Sacrament" and by the end of 2007 I knew all their songs and later went on to study Killswitch Engage riffs only by listening and transcribing solos and riffs by ear. By doing that, my ear became quicker and it helped me to transcribe melodies in music schools theory class and I became very fluent at that. Then jazz progressive rock and be-bop started to grab my attention while I was starting to play with jazz groups and wanted to get some new musical ideas. I started to dig odd-time signatures and rhythmical illusions and virtuos playing. So the next big influence for me was Dream Theater and their guitarist John Petrucci still has a huge impact on my playing. Right after that I discovered Opeth and started to practice finger picking riffs and was fond of Mikael Ackerfeldt's melodic guitar solos. Drumming wise Tomas Haake (Meshuggah) and Sean Reinert (Cynic) were the guys that got me interested in using polyrhythmic grooves and ghost notes, which added a nice texture to my groove approach. Cynic's main songwriter, lyricist and guitarist Paul Masvidal was also highly inspiring and influential to my guitar playing and writing. As I had reached a high level in terms of virtuosity, I then wanted to discover new sounds and composition techniques and Steven Wilson, the frontman behind Porcupine Tree was a major discovery and their drummer Gavin Harrison's unique playing style fulfilled me with lot of creative ideas. If I think of 2  most influential and creative drummers then 2 names come to mind - one of them would be Matt Halpern from a progressive metal band called Periphery. His approach to the drumset is very unique as he uses a lot ghost notes and linear phrasing behind drum kit. The other huge influence would be session great Vinnie Colaiuta who has played on so many wonderful records that I discovered thanks to him. He has his own very distinguish style and way of playing, which has influenced many fusion guys around the world. Now I am into a lot of different stuff - from drum'n'bass to classical music or even listen to some atmospheric progressive rock like Anathema. All this different music influences me a lot and inspires to become a better player and writer. 
Future plans for me are to finish writing and recording my very first solo EP, which will hopefully hit the stores at the beginning of september and write some more music ... 
stay tuned ;) 

Rauno Pella Project

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