Good evening fans! Just wanted to share with you the official music video for the track Insula from my new album ACCEPTANCE. Straight out the oven!

Check it out here

Some faqs about the song:

This was actually the first track I composed for the album.

The working title for the song was ”Reflections”

Insula is the Latin word for Island

Insula is also an area in our brain. It’s called the 5th lobe. Insular cortex receives signals about the state of the body’s internal organs and registers disturbances of the autonomic nervous system. Even pain impulses from the body’s organs reaches here. It is also believed to be involved in various functions related to the control of bodily functions, cognition such as attention, memory, empathy, taste, smell and hearing, as well as music experiences.

Pretty cool stuff huh?

Enjoy!

**More videos to come in the future!**

Good night

T

”If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill

Another review of ACCEPTANCE is out and it’s even more positive than the last one. The reviewer is Lo Rindberg who is a famous cultural profile who has worked many years for the region’s newspapers. Here is a few outtakes:

”A philosophical appropriation in both the titles and the highly cohesive mood that Tomas Grut creates with his music”

”Tomas Grut purposefully works his way forward on both the breadth and depth of his music production and undeniably creates expectations for the future”

”It gets personally touching already in the intro ”Bells” with slightly fateful bell tolling on the piano”

”Moods and emotions out of a life situation is what this album mainly conveys with music that oscillates between the dramatic upset and the meditative calm”

You can read the full article (in swedish) here

Peace

Tomas

”If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill

The first review of ACCEPTANCE is out! It’s reviewed by Lena Byström who has freelanced in all of Sweden’s orchestras, opera houses, county music departments and private theaters in Stockholm, and made a series of television, radio and album recordings. And for ten years, she was the orchestra director of the Symphony Orchestra at the Norrland Opera House and the Nordic Chamber Orchestra.

Here’s a few outtakes from the review:

”Tomas deft piano playing is present and the technical evenness required for this kind of minimalist music is there”

”I like that the album offers more elaborate compositions where the musical ideas wears longer. I also like the longer phrases, the longer lines in the music and the more advanced harmonies” 

”Favorite song on my part this time is ”Forever” that feels lighter than many of Tomas earlier compositions and where his piano appropriation is more sensitive than some of the other songs”

Good evening fans! Just wanted to share with you the smokingly fresh music video for ”Bells (Intro)” from ACCEPTANCE. My first official music video actually! I think it’s really cool. Beautiful and eerie at the same time. Check it out here

More videos will come in the future!

Hope you are enjoying ACCEPTANCE. I think the reviews for it are coming in next week!

Bye for now

T

”If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill

Fans, I’m very happy to announce that my new album ACCEPTANCE is now out on Spotify, Tidal and Amazon Mp3! It will also be up on iTunes and many more places during the day!

I put my heart and soul into this album and I truly hope you will enjoy it! A big thanks goes out to Mats Lundin, Peter Roos, Mari Vedin Laaksonen, Sandra Lee Pettersson and Annica Nordin for your participation in the process!

Enjoy! Now I need to sleep.

Tomas

”If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill