Blood Ruby
Female-fronted atmospheric alternative music somewhere in the vein of dream pop, ethereal and neoprogressive rock.
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Midsummer Fires Midsummer Fires
(05:52) A tribute to the pagan-based Scandinavian traditions of Midsummer, this song, like a bonfire, slowly builds into a blazing inferno.
Remains of the Day Remains of the Day
(03:46) A richly atmospheric tribute to the transcendence of memory over matter.
Sleepwalk Sleepwalk
(05:26) An undercurrent of spookiness and tension runs beneath this song about living life to its fullest; savor even the pain, because simply to feel is divine.
He's Lost He's Lost
(04:27) A song exploring the emotional paradox of codependency.
Babel Babel Babel Babel
(05:11) A complex, layered song that keeps getting higher and deeper until the delightfully trippy "spaced-out" ending.
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Blood Ruby is Thomas Wall (guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, engineering), Cynthia Conrad (vocals, guitar), and Margaret Browning (bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals).
Together, Blood Ruby creates a unique brand of atmospheric alternative music somewhere in the vein of dream pop, ethereal and neoprogressive rock.Band/artist history
ROCK FORMATION
Blood Ruby was founded in early 2001 by Thomas Wall and Cynthia Conrad, who met in an online music forum. Thomas was looking for a singer to cover a song for his Reflection Beauty project. Cynthia was a singer and songwriter in an all-girl band, looking for an additional creative outlet. Their musical chemistry was immediately apparent, and they soon began writing songs together. Some of their earliest collaborations included the unreleased songs "So What If I Do," "Queen of Snow," and "Never Touched."
Thomas and Cynthia collaborated long distance for over a yearshe in New Haven, Connecticut, he in a small town outside of Chicago, Illinois. They worked on their songs via mail and email, getting together once every few months to record their creations at Thomas home studio.
IN THE ROUGH
By early 2002, Thomas and Cynthia had released several of their songs on mp3.com and IUMA.com, including The Edge of the Map, Centro, The Waiting Hours, Bone Garden, The Night Tide, and Some Winters. Cynthia began her marketing campaign for the band, building the blood-ruby.com website and contacting would-be fans.
Meanwhile, Thomas moved to New Haven and began work on another batch of songs. Recordings from this period included Shan Shui, Sky and Dryad, Underwater Place, and a cover of the Cocteau Twins Know Who You Are At Every Age.
CUT AND POLISHED
By 2003, Cynthia had parted ways with her all-girl band. Out of the ashes, Cynthia rescued Margaret Browning, who quickly became a major creative force in Blood Ruby.
Margarets influence added new dimensions to existing songs such as Babel Babel, and her contributions on new songs such as Separate Sides and "Sleepwalk" brought the bands sound to a higher level. Cynthia also began offering her own songs to the cause, including Remains of the Day, Hes Lost, Where the Rain Goes, and Sainte Bernadette.
As of this writing, the band continues to work on its first full-length CD, prereleasing select songs on their website. For the latest news on Blood Ruby, please visit our .Have you performed in front of an audience?At this time, Blood Ruby is in the process of recording its first full-length album. Once this project is completed, we will begin work on adapting our songs for live performance.
Your musical influences
Cocteau Twins, Lush, Kate Bush, Tori AmosWhat equipment do you use?
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New Haven, CT
USA
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Comments (9)
Hey Blood Ruby! Good to see you're still around! Let us know when you're playing in the NY area - we should set up some shows together!
Back for more spins,hope you guys are good&Cynthias fully recovered now.
The edge of the map,becoming yet another firm favourite.(ranked above Shan shui even!) Many thanks for sharing your excellent music. Superb listening. llp.Maria
Hi guys, as said before,justlove all your music, tho after listening since last post, have to say I have an order of play when I rave about you to my friends :0) -'Midsummer Fire',(usually the first one we tend to choose!)followed by, 'Babel Babel' & 'Sleepwalk'. I just love 'Remains of the day', 'Shan shui' and 'Underwater place', so its difficult to choose between them. 'The night tide' is becoming a firm fav too-beautifully brilliant that one. The lyrics you guys write and the way you express musically,just fills me like in 'Some winters', 'The night tide'&'Bone Garden'. All your music has something special for me that fills my soul.
LLP Maria
Hi Cynthia...
Maria and Gary sent me over to listen to you,so glad they did.
Loved REMAINS OF THE DAY and BABEL BABEL,both added to my station.
But everything I have listened to so far is excellent.
I have an online journal at ANUBIS SPIRE's site,and as part of that I am doing a spotlight on Soundclcim artists that I think Anubis Spire fans would like to hear.
I would like with your permission to do a spotlight on BLOOD RUBY.
Here is the link to my journal,so yuo can see what is I do,just look for the article on SOUNDCLICK ARTISTS:
http://anubis-spire777.blogspot.com/
Here is the link to Anubis Spire's homepage also:
http://members.aol.com/Anubis37/news.html
You can contact me via my message board or via my e-mail on my page.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Keep up the excellent work.
Nigel.
http://www.soundclick.co
Hi Cynthia,
Just heard your song 'Remains of the day' on songplanet radio and had to find you and listen to more.. What we heard was absolutely Brilliant, floaty, dreamy Beautiful ( you could safely say we loved your sound!) 'Remains of the day' we really like, but as I type I am listening to more.. its really difficult to put them in a preference, they are all so beautiful, different, lovely ...amazing talent! Can't praise you guys enough.
So, listening to them in the order you have them in... its like listening to random play on your favourite records.
All so unique all so good! Honest opinion....Improvement?...none needed :-)
Success to you guys.
Maria&Gary
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