Where to Start with Bruno Justi: A Beginner's Guide
Begin with Music Cosmos Earth
Your best entry point into Bruno Justi's world is Music Cosmos (dot) Earth, the platform he co-created. This isn't just a website—it's a living philosophy made audible. Start by exploring whatever offerings are currently available there, whether recordings, guided experiences, or educational content. Unlike jumping straight into his session work or production credits, Music Cosmos gives you Bruno's unfiltered vision: the convergence of conscious music, sound healing, and spiritual exploration that defines his core work.
What you'll encounter first is likely to surprise you. If you're expecting polished studio perfection from his EA Games and Disney collaborations, you'll instead find something rawer and more intentional. The music moves slowly. It breathes. Bruno's guitar and flute work here isn't about virtuosity—it's about creating sonic space for inner experience.
Where to Go Next
After Music Cosmos, seek out his workshop offerings. Bruno teaches, and his pedagogy reveals dimensions of his work that recordings alone cannot. Whether through the California School of Arts, LA College of Music, or independent sessions, his teaching illuminates how he thinks about sound as a vehicle for consciousness. You'll understand his techniques for working with earth medicines, meditation, and shamanic practices through music.
Next, explore his collaborative work with Deva Premal & Miten. This gives you Bruno in dialogue with established voices in sacred music and mantra. You'll hear how his approach to guitar and arrangement serves devotional practice—less concerned with standing out than with holding space for transformation.
Finally, investigate his production and composition credits. The range from Supertramp's Carl Verheyen to Netflix soundtracks to game audio shows his versatility, but more importantly, it demonstrates how someone can work across commercial and sacred contexts without abandoning a core sensibility.
The Beginner's Misreading
New listeners almost always make the same mistake: they approach Bruno as either a "spiritual teacher who happens to play guitar" or a "session musician dabbling in wellness." He's neither. He's a serious musician whose instrument happens to be consciousness itself—guitar and flute are just the tools.
Don't expect lectures or explanations in the music. Bruno isn't trying to teach you about Vedanta or plant medicine through lyrics or spoken word. The music is the teaching. The specific frequencies, the spaces between notes, the way a flute melody dissolves into ambient texture—these aren't aesthetic choices, they're technologies of awareness.
When This Work Hits Hardest
Bruno's music tends to land most powerfully during three life phases: when you're actively engaged in plant medicine or meditation practice and need sonic support for integration; during major life transitions when you've left one identity behind but haven't fully inhabited the next (note Bruno's own 2011 departure from marketing to music); and during periods of creative crisis when you're questioning whether "success" and "soul" can coexist.
If you're casually curious about world music or vaguely interested in "relaxation sounds," Bruno's work may feel inaccessible or too sparse. But if you're standing in the gap between who you were and who you're becoming, his soundscapes become portals.
Your First Week
Days 1-2: Spend 30 minutes daily just listening to Music Cosmos Earth content. Don't multitask. Sit or lie down. Notice what emerges.
Day 3: Research Bruno's bio and trajectory. Understand the São Paulo-to-LA journey. Read about the artists he's collaborated with.
Day 4: Listen to his work with Deva Premal & Miten. Notice the difference between active listening and receptive listening.
Days 5-6: If available, watch any talks or workshop previews. Pay attention to how he speaks about sound, not just what he says.
Day 7: Return to Music Cosmos Earth. Notice what's different in your listening now. Consider whether you want to go deeper through workshops or regular practice with his music.
This isn't entertainment. It's a practice. Start there.
