January 27th, 2010
Song “Infinity”:
Collaboration with American musician Andrew Arrington
Andrew Arrington: Drum track Acoustic guitar Vocals
Zozimo Rech (Astronomusic): Synth sequencer & moog
Adrianne Simioni (Astronomusic): Electric violin solo
Michael Duran: Electric guitar solo
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January 21st, 2010
Song “Summer Star”:
Collaboration with American musician Bob Forbes
“Have a listen to a song dedicated to 2 fantastic musicians Zozimo and Adrianne (Astronomusic) of Brazil who married last September”
Bob Forbes - Composition, Vocals, Bass, Organ
Bruce Ogilvie – Guitar Solo
Adrianne Simioni – guitars
Zózimo Rech – Moog, Strings
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Song “Dragon in the Flowers”:
Collaboration with American New Age composer Katherine Scorzo
Katherine Scorzo (Faunaserene) composition ,synths
Adrianne Simioni (Astronomusic) electric violin
Zozimo Rech (Astronomusic) additional synths
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September 26th, 2009
Song: "Ekaterina's Theme":
Collaboration with artist Jude Law, from Wales.
Jude Law aka Ekaterina: Composition, Synths, Drums.
Adrianne Simioni: Lap Steel Guitar, Electric Violin.
Zozimo Rech: Synths, Guitar, Production.
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Blogs:
. http://www.soundclick.com/members/defaul t.cfm?member=Coconut%20Blues&content =myBlogs&id=60316
. http://www.soundclick.com/members/defaul t.cfm?member=astronomusic&content=my Blogs&id=60326
September 4th, 2009
Song "Sky Ska":
Collaboration with American musician Mike Bennett.
Adrianne Simioni: Electric Violin, Lap Steel Guitar
Zozimo Rech: Synth solo, Electric Guitar Solo
Mike Bennett: Bass, Organ, Drumtrack BT
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Blogs:
. http://www.soundclick.com/members/defaul t.cfm?member=astronomusic&content=my Blogs&id=53904
. http://www.soundclick.com/members/defaul t.cfm?member=fendrguitplayr&content= myBlogs&id=53905
Song "Strung Up"
Collaboration with American musician Allan Vektor Dean.
Adrianne Simioni: Electric Violin, Electric Guitar
"A song two years in the making. Zozimo Rech and Adrianne Simioni of the phenominal Astronomusic graciously contributed the very special final touches to a song constructed with Chapman Stick and guitars by Jeff McLeod, synthesizer/production by Alan".
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Song "Streets of Gold"
Collaboration with American musician Jack Potter.
"This is a musical interpretation of a man's first walk down the Streets of Gold. It features Joe Scalisi on Sax and my good friends from Astronomusic, Adrianne Simioni and Zozimo Rech on Violin and spacey style keyboards respectively."
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January 20th, 2009
Opening of the International Year of Astronomy at UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
With the presence of the university's rector Prof. Dr. Carlos Alexandre Netto, the head of research Prof. Dr. Joao Edgar Schmidt and head of extension affairs Prof. Dr. Sandra de Deus, the official opening of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009) at UFRGS took place at Planetario Jose Baptista Pereira on January 20th at 8:00 PM.
Program:
1) Music at the Planetarium's Dome: "Music inspired by the science of the stars" was the name given to the musical spectacle at the dome, merging the Zeiss Spacemaster's projections and other space images with the sound of the guitars and keyboards of Adrianne Simioni and Zozimo Rech, combining synthesizer music with progressive rock. Attendance: 137 people (full dome).
2) Speach at the Planetarium's Dome: "Dark energy and dark matter - the Universe we don't know" with Prof. Dr. Thaisa Storchi Bergmann of the Astronomy Department of UFRGS's Physics Institute. Attendance: 137 people.
3) Skywatching through telescopes at the Planetarium's yard: With the collaboration of "Observatorio Educativo Itinerante" (Itinerant Educative Observatory) and of amateur astronomers, observatoin of Porto Alegre's night sky were made starting at sunset. Attendance: 149, 31 of them looking through telescopes for the first time.
December 31st, 2008
Astronomusic at the newsstands
"Editora Qualidade de Vida" (Life Quality Editions) releases an Astronomusic special collection inside issue #14 of the magazine+CD "Terapia Musical" (Musical Therapy). 15000 copies distributed at the main newsstands and bookstores in Brazil and Portugal. Titled "Universo de Sensações" (Universe of Sensations), the CD has a selection of 16 Astronomusic tracks in the New Age genre useful for relaxation, meditation and stress control. It is also a good choice for those who like to listen to music during astronomic observations or a Season's gift for a friend.
Zozimo Rech & Adrianne Simioni would like to wish everyone a Happy 2009, International Year of Astronomy!
December 24th, 2008
Special Christmas collaboration between Astronomusic and composer and multi-instrumentalist Morten Gjermundsen from Norway: "Merry Christmas Feat"
Adrianne Simioni: electric violin and lap steel guitar
Zozimo Rech: synthesizer and guitar solos
Morten : guitar, bass, drums and keyboards
Listen to Merry Christmas Feat HERE!
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December 15th, 2008
New Astronomusic collaborations with international musicians:
Song"Pampas Bit": collaboration with guitarist and producer Edson Frank of São Paulo (Brazil). Edson called the song "Pampas Bit", in homage to his collaborators of Astronomusic who live nearby the "Pampas".
It is a region of the very south of Brazil and Nordeast of Argentina characterized by smooth hills and plains. This place called the attention of naturalist Charles Darwin in his famous voyage aboard the ship "Beagle" in the 19th century.
Credits:
Adrianne Simioni: electric violin and lap steel guitar
Zozimo Rech: first synth solo and electric guitar (dialogue with the violin)
Edson Frank: Composition, electric guitar, guitar synth, keyboards, other synths, bass, drums and percussion.
Listen to “Pampas Bit” HERE !
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Song “Love!”: Collaboration with band Mike & The Girls. Composition of Mike Marshall.
Adrianne Simioni: electric violin
Zozimo Rech: synthesizer and guitar solo
Listen to “Love!” HERE!
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"Love!" blogs : of Mike & The Girls, of Astronomusic
September 9th, 2008
Zozimo and Adrianne are being invited for musical collaborations with artists from various latitudes and longitudes of the planet. See below:
Song “Healers Moon” (#4 in the Progressive Rock charts at SoundClick)
Carlo D'Anna (Seattle, USA) – composer music/lyrics, acoustic guitar, vocals
Michael Duran (California, USA) – bass, drums, musical production
Zozimo Rech (Astronomusic) – synthesizers and sequencers
Adrianne Simioni (Astronomusic) - electric violin solo
Paul Barnes (Inglaterra)- first electric guitar solo, rhythm guitar
Morten Gjermundsen (Noruega)– second electric guitar solo
Listen to "Healers Moon" HERE!
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Song “ Island in the Clouds” (#6 in New Age at SoundClick)
Michael Duran (California, USA): trumpet and flutes(synthesized), rhythm acoustic guitar, electric guitar solo;
Adrianne Simioni (Astronomusic): electric violin;
Zozimo Rech (Astronomusic): composer, synthesizers and sequencers, solo acoustic guitar, musical production.
Listen to “Island in the Clouds” HERE:
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September 8th, 2008
Track "The Collapsing Star" from album The Life Of A Star by Zozimo Rech reached #1 in the Progressive Rock charts at SoundClick today and #4 in Rock .
Listen to "The Collapsing Star" HERE!
20 Astronomusic tracks have so far reached TOP 10 at SoundClick!
July 8th, 2008
Track "Explorers" from album "Pictures of a Solar System" by Zozimo Rech reached #1 at SoundClick on July 3rd in the New Age subgenre (among 8.347 songs) and #4 in "World Music" (among 65.756 songs).
Listen to "Explorers" HERE!
You can check the New Age charts HERE.
June 12th, 2008
Interview and performance at "Bibo Show" on ULBRA TV, special program for "lovers day" (Brazilian equivalent of Valentine's Day). At right, the quartet playing “Burn Again”.
June 4th, 2008
Track "CMZ" from album "Pictures of a Solar System" by Zozimo Rech reached #2 in Classical Contemporary charts at SoundClick today.
Since yesterday, 3 Astronomusic tracks are simultaneously at SoundClick's TOP 10:
CMZ: #2 in Classical Contemporary
Spacetronic Eyes: #6 in Progressive Rock
Exotic Oceans: #9 in New Age
Listen to "CMZ" HERE!
Click HERE to check "Classical Contemporary" charts at SoundClick.
May 26th, 2008A
Track "Dancing With The Invisible" from album "The Life Of A Star" by Zozimo Rech reached #1 in Progressive Rock at SoundClick on May 24th. "Exotic Oceans" is still holding #2 in New Age. Astronomusic is now among the "20 Hottest Bands" at SoundClick (of 2.831.575 songs, and 370.798 bands).
Listen to "Dancing With The Invisible" HERE!
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You can check the progressive rock charts HERE.
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May 6th, 2008
Track "Exotic Oceans" from album "Pictures of a Solar System" by Zozimo Rech reached #1 in the New Age charts at SoundClick on April 22nd among 8.499 songs of this genre and #8 in World Music among 65.673 songs.
Listen to "Exotic Oceans" HERE.
You can check the New Age charts HERE.
March 20th, 2008
Track “Spacetronic Eyes” from CD “The Intelligible Sky” by Adrianne Simioni reached #1 in Progressive Rock at SoundClick, the biggest international mp3 store with more than 3 million members.
On this track Adrianne plays electric guitars and lap steel guitar, and in the middle section there's a guitar dialog between Adrianne and Zozimo Rech.
14 Astronomusic tracks have so far reached TOP 10 at SoundClick!
Listen to “Spacetronic Eyes” HERE!
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November 2nd, 2007
Today, track "Alien Eyes" by Adrianne Simioni reached #5 in subgenre Psychedelic Rock.
Click HERE to check daily positions for Psychedelic Rock songs:
Listen to "Alien Eyes" HERE!
November 1st, 2007
In the last week of October Astronomusic entered SoundClick's TOP 10 in the rock genre (among 142,363 songs) with track "Burn Again" from Zozimo Rech's CD "Pictures of a Solar System" and reached #2 position in the progressive rock genre. Since June fourteen Astronomusic tracks entered the TOP 100. SoundClick is a digital music store with many virtual radios: www.soundclick.com
You can check the progressive rock charts HERE.
Listen to "Burn Again" here!!!
August 21st, 2007
Now you can buy individual tracks from the three Astronomusic CDs. Click HERE to listen and download them.
July 30th, 2007
Now you can visit Astronomusic's profile at MySpace and listen to a selection of tracks from the project's three CDs: www.myspace.com/astronomusic .
July 4th, 2007
Kinesis Progressive Rock CDs releases the Astronomusic project albums at its online store.
http://www.kinesiscd.com/storeframe1.htm
June 29th, 2007
Musea Records (France) releases the three CDs of Astronomusic project at its online store.
http://www.musearecords.com/re_new_releaseselect.php?np=34791
http://www.musearecords.com/re_new_releaseselect.php?np=34792
http://www.musearecords.com/re_new_releaseselect.php?np=34793
June 28th, 2007
A video of Orquestra Profana performing the 3rd movement of "The Summer" (The Storm) from "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi is available at You Tube. The guitars of Zozimo Rech and Adrianne Simioni play respectively the parts of the "violino principale" and 2nd violin from the original score. Click here to watch!
June 26th, 2007
The Astronomusic project was cited this month at the "V Encontro de Planetários do Mercosul" in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“... Dentre as colaborações externas podemos destacar: o Laboratório de Microgravidade da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), o Astronomusic (compositores e intérpretes de música que têm como tema inspirador a Astronomia e a Astrofísica), o V COMAR (5º Comando Aéreo Regional), etc...”
*Excerpt from the text “Itinerários científico-culturais no Planetário da UFRGS” by Dr. Steffani from Departamento de Física – IF-UFRGS and Planetário/PROREXT – UFRGS.
June 14th, 2007
We're glad to communicate that the Brazilian edition of Guitar Player magazine published in its June issue, page 48, an article about the technical aspects of our CDs recordings (in Portuguese, of course...).
April 21st, 2007
Interview with Zózimo Rech on Radio Fatima FM, 87.9MHZ, at 19:30
March 2nd, 2007February 21th, 2007
We're glad to communicate that the Astronomusic project was cited in the March issue of Astronomy Brasil (the Brazilian edition of Astronomy magazine), in an article written by Dr. Maria Helena Steffani (Nuclear Physics, UFRGS) on the social importance of planetariums. Pages 74 to 75.
January 24th, 2007
We've been observing comet McNaught yesterday and the day before. Last week it was not possible because of the weather conditions. Don't miss this spectacle, it will still be visible for the naked eye for some time.
January 16th, 2007
If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, don't miss comet McNaught, visible to the naked eye at sunset today and tomorrow!!!
January 10th, 2007
We would like to thank all the people who were present on December 16th at Porto Alegre's planetariumfor the release of Astronomusic's three CDs. Also thank for all the encouraging fan mail.
At the moment we're working on the construction of this site and planning future Astronomusic appearances. Since we're in Summer down here, we're also making use of the season to enjoy some tropical nature gifts after this prolonged undertaking.
Zozimo & Adrianne.
Pictures of the CDs debut in the planetarium:
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