The Emerald Ruby weaves a delicate musical tapestry from an on-stage forest of flutes and ukuleles. Voice like a siren, intricate melodies sprout from her classical training, gently manicured by her love of Folk music and Jazz.

Since 2021, The Emerald Ruby has released a plethora of original pieces, with scores and music videos across multiple genres created with crippling budgets of no more than a few hundred dollars. In 2021, she released her internationally recognised debut solo flute EP, video series, and sheet music collection titled “5 Short Thoughts for Solo Flute”. Thereafter, she released a new work for the flute choir titled “Cordelia’s Jig”, based on the book “Anne of Green Gables”, and her first folk tune EP titled “Folksy Dreams Volume 1”. In 2022, she released “The End of Torpor”, a duet for flute and cello, followed by “Grandparents for Sale”, a protest song, and “Folksy Dreams Volume 2”, the second EP from her folk tune series.

Recently, she was commissioned by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) to write a collection of flute duets about finding beauty amongst the red tape that governs her life as a disabled artist. This will be recorded in the ABC’s studio in Ultimo alongside Sally Walker.

Henry Manuell’s ‘Othrship’ is influenced by David Bowie, Tame Impala, and Silverchair.

Feeling restricted by today’s music model and « fitting into a sound » never sat well with Henry. Othrship gave him an avenue to explore creativity and to embody the spontaneity of jazz music but with riffs and melodies familiar to contemporary listeners.

Influenced by Henry’s broad music taste, the sound doesn’t follow today's trends, it's been compared to Parcels, Brian Eno, King Gizzard, The Byrds, World's End Press and progressive rock of the 70s.

"Othrship delivers groove to your door, full of just enough jazzy widdling and wonky tangents" that "responds to this galaxy’s need for good music with a sound that carries forth with a signature cadence".