Sleeping At Last's Otherworldly Album

Sleeping At Last’s Ryan O’Neal has done it again. He has started yet another profound album project. The first album in his new project is called Astronomy: Vol. 1. Astronomy: Vol. 1 is a collection of mostly instrumental songs inspired by modern astronomical events.

Sleeping At Last began this project in 2017 and has spent the last three years creating writing 13 songs inspired by the astronomical events that transpired during this period.

Astronomy: Vol. 1

1. August 21, 2017: Total Solar Eclipse

2. September 15, 2017: Cassini – The Grand Finale

3. Saturn

4. December 13, 2017: Geminid Meteor Shower

5. January 31, 2018: Super Blue Blood Moon

6. June 30, 2018: Pds 70b (Birth of a Planet)

7. July 27, 2018: Total Lunar Eclipse

8. August 12, 2018: Perseid Meteor Shower

9. October 30, 2018: Kepler – Goodnight

10. December 17, 2018: Farout

11. February 13, 2019: Opportunity – Mission Complete

12. April 10, 2019: Powehi – Image of a Black Hole

13. January 30, 2020: Spitzer – Final Voyage

This collection of songs have been released one by one and then finally organized into one complete album.

O’Neal wrote these songs with just as much purpose as everything else he writes. There is purpose behind every little detail of the song. There is no chord progression that he did not think about how they would be interpreted. There is no instrument used that was not purposeful and used to create the auditory image he wanted.

For songs like August 21, 2017: Total Solar Eclipse, Sleeping At Last used melodies from his previous songs to add to the intricacies of the song. In this particular case, Sleeping At Last used pieces of the melody from his song Sun (from Atlas: I) and broke them down and rewove them into August 21, 2017: Total Solar Eclipse because of the overlapping solar themes.

For songs like April 10, 2019: Powehi – Image of a Black Hole, Sleeping At Last used technology that would create sound from images to process the images from NASA and then used the sound created in pieces of the melody of the song.

For more information on how Sleeping At Last wrote the following songs, check out his podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2dI7TNKc4nYbn79ohXo1Xl?si=hl5RZdCySL65jVeBUmZnEA

· August 21, 2017: Total Solar Eclipse

· September 15, 2017: Cassini – The Grand Finale

· December 13, 2017: Geminid Meteor Shower

· January 31, 2018; Super Blue Blood Moon

· June 30, 2018: Pds 70b (Birth of a Planet)