Blue Stone 蓝宝石 的音乐作品最大的特色来自美妙的音调、丰富的钢琴间奏和充满诱惑力的女声,以及在音乐中讲述给听者的迷一般的故事。当他们的音乐从音响中传出,时而宏伟壮丽,时而又深沉柔和。Blue Stone 蓝宝石 团队有两个富有热情的制作人Robert Smith和Bill Walters,其中Robert Smith同时也是大名鼎鼎的 Bella Sonus 的策划制作人。这个Project则属于近年声名鹊起的Neurodisc,该厂牌另外的知名项目包括还Amethystium和Ryan Farish瑞恩·法瑞什。
Blue Stone is an American electronic-pop musical project formed by producer/programmer Robert Smith and producer/multi-instrumentalist Bill Walters, and featuring various female guest vocalists. The group has released three studio albums and one remix album, all on Neurodisc Records, since 2006.
Blue Stone's style and genre have been described as &Ethereal Pop,& &Ambient Pop,& &Dream Pop,& and &New Age& by critics. Their music integrates layered hardware and software synthesizers with live piano, vocals, and percussion.
Robert Smith and Bill Walters are the group's core members, who write the majority and produce all of Blue Stone's output. They collaborate with various female guest vocalists, some of whom are credited as co-writers of songs. Prior to forming Blue Stone, Smith released music in the New Age genre as Bella Sonus. He and Walters have experience performing together as bandmates in Rock and Blues projects in prior decades. The two have cited a variety of musical artists, including Pink Floyd, Jan Hammer, William Orbit, Delerium, BT, and Afro Celt Sound System, as having been influential in developing their sound.
Blue Stone's first studio album, Breathe, was released in 2006 and received mixed reviews. Breathe features one guest vocalist, Darcy, on numerous songs, which are a combination of free-form composition and traditional verse/chorus songwriting. The album performed well on the iTunes Store's Electronic Album Chart Top 100. Worlds Apart was released in 2007 to uniformly positive reviews, and included three guest vocalists (Rivers, Sandlin, and Hurley), each performing on multiple songs. This album represented a shift toward a majority of conventionally written (verse/chorus-type) songs that continued in the 2009 release Messages, which was also well received by critics.