Cosmic Garden Project makes music that feels like stepping into another atmosphere. Their new track ‘Olympus Mons’ from the upcoming album ‘Red Sand Blue Soil’ doesn’t just suggest space travel, it sounds like it was recorded mid-journey somewhere between inner stillness and the edge of the solar system.

With members like Dan Söderqvist of Älgarnas Trädgård and Twice a Man, Per Svensson of The New Alchemy, Jerry Johansson of Grovjobb, and Pontus Torstensson of Tentakel, this group brings serious cosmic credentials. ‘Olympus Mons’ blends sitar, 12-string guitars, prepared piano, and field recordings into something deeply meditative and otherworldly. It unfolds slowly, like a landscape being revealed in layers.

Recorded between Silence Studio in Koppom and Studio Katakomb in Göteborg, the sound is rich and immersive. You can almost feel the thin Martian air and the crunch of red soil underfoot. There’s no rush here, just the patient build of sound and space, a gentle climb toward something vast and unknown.

The full album, ‘Red Sand Blue Soil,’ is out May 30, 2025, on vinyl and digital via Sound Effect Records. ‘Olympus Mons’ is the sound of looking up and deciding to go. Not away from Earth, but toward something deeper and more expansive. A quiet kind of wonder, broadcast from a distant peak.

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