Brandon Sanderson and more!

Back in August, I posted a song (Sci-Fi Song #5 ) that was based on Brandon Sanderson's Elantris. On a suggestion from Kristen at The Fantasy Cafe blog, I e-mailed Brandon to let him know about it. Just this week and to my surprise, Brandon replied to me, told me that he enjoyed the song, and linked to it from his blog. I suddenly realized how beloved Brandon is to his many readers as my song "Sarene" was downloaded over 700 times in the past two days! Thanks Brandon.

If you are new to the blog, welcome, and thanks for stopping by. If you are a fan of Mr. Sanderson and you enjoyed "Sarene", I hope that you will find a few other songs here that you might like. I release everything under a Creative Commons License, so please download any song that you like for free and share it with your friends.

My name is John Anealio. I am a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist who writes and records songs based on science fiction and fantasy novels, TV shows, and movies. My goal is to post a new original song every other week. I have kept this pace since this past July and I currently have 10 original Sci-Fi Songs which you can download for free right now. On the alternating weeks, I usually post a remix of one of my songs by one of the excellent remix artists over at ccMixter or I do a links or roundup post (like this one). I've been meaning to do a roundup post for a while, so this seems like a good time to do one.

Here are a few highlights from the first four months of Sci-Fi Songs:

• "Sarene":the aforementioned song that was inspired by Brandon Sanderson's Elantris.
• "Rachel Rosen": based on the classic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick.
  • "Android Girlfriend": a super creative mash-up of "Rachel Rosen" and a few other musical sources done by Teru.
  • "Rachel Rosen (radiotimes remix)": a great remix by radiotimes.
• Solo Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals
• "The Return of Titus Quinn": inspired by Kay Kenyon's Bright of the Sky. Scroll down and check out the comments to read some of the nice things that Kay Kenyon herself had to say about the piece.
  
• "Merithyn's Promise": based on Requiem for the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon
• "Summer Glau": inspired by Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity
• Vampire Duology:
• "Beautiful Vampire"
• "Angels and Vampires"

Thanks for stopping by. If you like what you are hearing please subscribe to the RSS feed. I'll be delivering new songs and remixes just about every week.

Hope you enjoy the music,

John Anealio