Universum is a loose chronology of the universe, expressed through a hybrid of orchestral and electronic music. From ambient atmosphere to symphonic song to percussive pulse, Universum is an intense journey from theoretical beginning to theoretical end.

This album is also a love letter to the Newgrounds Audio Portal. Thank you all.

https://anthonyragus.bandcamp.com/album/universum

Violin - Stefan Krut

Tenor Saxophone - Eddie Pimentel

Viola - Brett Banducci

0:00:00 Formless

0:04:29 Important Matters

0:09:42 Obscurant Transparent

0:14:24 Astrogen

0:19:50 Propel Repel

0:32:51 Collapse Destroy Rebuild

0:41:53 Revolutionary Phenotypes

0:49:30 Influx Engulf

0:58:53 Rearranged Modern

1:07:36 Diamond Glints

1:14:24 Sonatina for the Last Ones

01 Formless

Everything and everywhen

Unbound by there or then

02 Important Matters

Cosmic inflation takes its course

Isolating particle from force

03 Obscurant Transparent

Activity and expansion slow

Gas free-floating without glow

04 Astrogen

From star to galaxy to cluster

They shine with all they can muster

05 Propel Repel

A mysterious energy through circumstance

Dominates and rejuvenates the expanse

06 Collapse Destroy Rebuild

A Sun's formation and gravity

Create a swirl of rock and debris

07 Revolutionary Phenotypes

Through selection and intermediary strife

A planet witnesses the birth and death of life

08 Influx Engulf

An old giant and its terrestrial friend

Reunite in a violent end

09 Rearranged Modern

Three galaxies pull together in an uproar

Merge and luminesce more brightly than before

10 Diamond Glints

The dawn of a dim era as they evolve

Far-reaching filaments begin to dissolve

11 Sonatina for the Last Ones

When all the stars are burnt and gone

Their dark descendants carry on

But they too ultimately meet their destined downfall

Whispering and withering till they are nothing at all

And nothing is everything after all