Bruce H. McCosar is another O.G. Creative Commons musician who seems to have stopped releasing albums, which is a pity. But he has hours and hours of music available, and all of it is Free Culture-licensed, which means that even if he vanished in the the middle of the Bermuda Triangle intestate, his works will live on.
Between 2006 and 2010, McCosar — a middle school science teacher by profession — released eight solid albums of instrumental rock, post-rock and jazz.
Martian Winter was the fifth, released at the tail end of 2008. It combines his rock and jazz influences in interesting ways, and makes a very good soundtrack for writing or outlining.
As for what it means to him personally:
Like NASA’s Spirit rover, I survived a long journey, and found myself in a new land.
Like Spirit, I find myself under a darkening sky. Time goes on, and the light fades.
During Martian Winter, Spirit shuts down. But Spirit always returns.
That day is today. Listen to the newest transmissions from your sister planet.
So, it’s not nearly as spacy or Vangelis like as the previous Writing Music Monday album, but it’s still not a thing easily to be slotted into genre strictures. It’s a personal work, and feels it.
Download Martian Winter free from Jamendo.
Martian Winter by Bruce H. McCosar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Doing Slapstick in the Kingdom of the Blind 