Out Of This Rock
Alternative-Pop-Rock with male voices
Influenced by pop, rock, electronica, psychodelia, folk, prog, blues, the world, love, books, movies and those things that make you go a bit insane
Although some songs go back to 2008, these three albums were started in earnest in 2013 and finally completed in 2025, a time during which 'life' happened... The music and lyrics are result of my thoughts and observations on life and the world, and my experiences during those years. Each album tells a different story, all created with their own themes and concepts, yet through all, lyrics and musical motifs entwine weaving a tapestry of musical meanings and moods into something larger than 'just three albums'. It's a trilogy of albums that I am informally calling 'The art of going insane'. A trilogy created between two global crises and throughout one big personal crisis.
Enjoy!
Luis (aka Bastian Swain), Edinburgh, December 2025
Out of this rock 1
At the edge of your world and mine. 2013-2025.
My most personal and introspective album. It speaks of my love for music and the desire to be a musician, about the books I read and the music I listened to, about the struggle with non-supportive parents, ending up being a scientist, and finally becoming both (and finding peace), much later in life.
"Come with me, come with me, to a place at the edge of your world and mine. The one you enter when you press 'play' and music takes over your mind".
Out of this rock 3
Of love and other poisons. 2015-2025.
Some people are born to be muses. Or more likely farmers, providing the fertilizer. I married and divorced one, and this is the resulting album. An album in which I let music speak about love, about the lack of love, about relationshits, about the wounds that words inflict, about becoming free and finding peace after all.
"Let music speak".
Credits and lyrics
Credits and lyrics
