Release date: May 30, 2025.
Sound Effect Records, SER144, 2025.
With their second album ”Red Sand Blue Soil” Cosmic Garden Project are leaving Earth to find new values and other dimensions, musically and spiritually, exploring the map of Mars as visual inspiration for both lyrics and sound.
The band creates something ”Extra Terrestrial” this time with titles such as ”Leaving Earth”, ”Olympus Mons” ”Ecopoets on Mars” and ”Astral Bodies”. They explore elevation and space travel via the music and the inner journey of the soul. ”The Doors are Open” describes the free spirit and the open soul. A visual peak is ”Extra Terrestrial Kaleidoscope” that visualize new life in the universe through the perspective of alien eyes.
A journey among planets and stars, never leaving the musical focus, tight together, although spreading the poetry of The Cosmic Garden Project where ever they go, coloured with their specific psychedelic sound built on folk, ambient and psychedelic rock in the tradition of 70s Swedish Psychedelia.
Cosmic Garden Project is now a quartet as new member Jerry Johansson (Grovjobb etc) joins the band on guitars and sitar.
Dan Söderqvist - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Electronics
Per Svensson - Vocals, Bass, Hammond Organ, Prepared Piano
Jerry Johansson - Sitar, 6 &12-Stringed Electric Guitar
Pontus Torstensson - Drums