Tschernobyl Video von LUNATIC SOUL
Mariusz Duda (bass, voc @ RIVERSIDE) präsentiert ein neues LUNATIC SOUL Video. Beklemmendes Videomaterial, gefilmt in Tschernobyl.
LUNATIC SOUL Video "The Fear Within"
Filmed by Scott from Kscope and edited by Lasse Hoile the clip was filmed in Chernobyl and documents the city as it is now nearly 20 years since the catastrophic nuclear accident – Scott comments on the footage "Having an interest in 'dark tourism' (travel to sites historically associated with death and tragedy), as well as 'Urbexing' (the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins), Pripyat is high on the list of well known places to visit. I was desperate to explore the abandoned area surrounding the power station that was the scene of the devastating nuclear disaster, before the government changed the regulations for visitors and a friend suggested a trip to Kiev, Ukraine. I spoke with Lasse Hoile before i went, and he encouraged me to film/photograph as much as i possibly could to document the area, with a thought to potentially using the footage to create a video in the future when an appropriate project came up. It had to be the right fit for the right track. Lunatic Soul's track 'The Fear Within' was that perfect project..."
17.10. LUNATIC SOUL - "Walking On A Flashlight Beam" (Kscope/Edel)
eclipsed – Album des Monats – 9/10: "In neun Stücken breitet er eine Klangwelt aus, die ihresgleichen sucht. … Spätestens mit dieser Einspielung hat sich Mariusz Duda für eine Kooperation mit Steven Wilson empfohlen. Für eine Kooperation auf Augenhöhe."
Musicheadquarter.de 9/9: "Für mich ist WOAFB definitiv das Album des Jahres, aber auch ganz sicher eines jener Alben, die mich immer begleiten werden – das steht für mich außer Frage."
Visions 9/12: "Die Eleganz, mit der er sein Soloprojekt Lunatic Soul in den vergangenen Jahren geformt hat, verdient höchste Anerkennung. ...Mit Album Nummer Vier gelingt Mariusz Duda die wohl überzeugendste Version seines Soloprojekts…"
Metal Hammer: "Das Album ist durchzogen von einer träumerischen, dunklen Melancholie, doch vor allem herrscht ein Gefühl von absoluter Entspanntheit vor...“
Break Out: "Ein Album wie geschaffen für den Herbst, welches man als Ganzes genießen sollt… Und wenn ganz, dann ganz laut, denn der Sound ist der Wahnsinn!"
Rock Hard: "…hörenswerte schwebende Kunstwerke…"
LUNATIC SOUL – Video Teaser
http://youtu.be/l15B0VDM6ik
LUNATIC SOUL – "Cold" – free download
https://soundcloud.com/kscopemusic/lunatic-soul-cold-from-walking-on-a-flashlight-beam
Album Info:
The ebb and flow of musical creativity means that nothing is truly ever completed. Where one album finishes, another is already forming. While his band Riverside continue to go from strength to strength Mariusz Duda's ability as a musician shows no bounds on his solo project Lunatic Soul who will release new albumWalking on a Flashlight Beam on 17th October, through Kscope (Anathema, Engineers, Steven Wilson).
“My music is born from unspecified fragments,” admits Duda. “Lunatic Soul is a musical illustration of all my transition periods.”
Ever since the Riverside frontman took the first steps as a solo artist in 2008 he's stayed true to his progressive roots with every record. His first eponymous record, nicknamed the black album, set the tone with an intricate and introspective journey, merging emotive motifs with a melancholic pursuit of acoustic experimentalism. Following the release of his debut, Polish-born Duda cultivated an ever-growing fanbase with 2010's Lunatic Soul II – the white album, for short - continuing the theme with lush, cinematic ambience and featuring his exceptional vocals. 2011 wrapped up with Impressions, this time a collection of instrumental songs formed of unused excerpts from the black-and-white diptych acting, in some respects, as a supplement to Lunatic Soul II and providing another taster of Duda's now-familiar new age sound.
Throughout the Lunatic Soul project and its successive releases Mariusz Duda has continued to work with Riverside, establishing the Reality Dream trilogy of albums in 2003 and culminating most recently with the highly acclaimed Shrine of New Generation Slaves, which included two European tours. While Riverside have accrued many fans of progressive metal with its heavier membrane Lunatic Soul has given Duda the creative outlet to focus on world music.
Walking on a Flashlight Beamoffers up a pallet of silky and sombre multi-instrumentalism whose comparisons are far-ranging, from Steven Wilson and Opeth, to the electro pulse of Depeche Mode. Recording for the album has once again taken place at Serakos studio in Poland, where Duda laid down the sounds for his last Riverside album Shrine of New Generation Slaves and where he has built up an enduring friendship with producers Robert Srzednicki and Magda Srzednicka.
Taking the lead with a range of instruments on Walking on a Flashlight Beam the ever-modest Duda knows his boundaries and, as with previous solo albums, has left the drum parts in the capable hands of his good friend Wawrzyniec Dramowicz, offering up an eclectic trance-like heartbeat to the record.
Mariusz Duda, whether he is with Riverside or Lunatic Soul, unfailingly creates an immersive experience. On Walking on a Flashlight Beam he has done it again, with an unpretentious, atmospheric, evocative collection of songs steeped in brooding melancholy with delicious hints of shimmering lights.
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