Lunatic Soul – new album coming soon!

Mariusz Duda is just about to finish recording the material for his second album Lunatic Soul II. As it was the first time, everything takes place in the Serakos studio in Warsaw and is supervised by Robert Srzednicki and Magda Srzednicka. At the moment the work is focused on the vocal parts. The mixing and mastering of the material is due in August.

Lunatic Soul’s white album is a continuation of the debut. It is the second part of the diptych about the journey through the land of the dead. “White”—because this album’s cover is… the negative image of the first one.

“There is a little fear that the listeners, seeing a white cover with the characteristic sign and logo ‘lunatic soul’ but without any ‘2’ or ‘II,’ will think that it is a kind of re-release of the first album,” says the author of Lunatic Soul. “That’s why I’d like to highlight that it’s going to be entirely new material, and the cover looks as it looks because since the beginning it was supposed to be a black and white diptych. Lunatic Soul is simply a double album divided into two single ones by the period of two years’ anticipation. And now there comes the time for its second and last part.

“It’s still a story about the journey through the afterworld, and more specifically about a journey through a certain place that exists somewhere in-between. White doesn’t refer here to a literal return to life. The protagonist will still remain on the other side. White doesn’t mean that instead of dark sounds we’ll hear happy songs and nightingales singing, either. It will still be very characteristic, trans-like, and (as I like to call it) oriental-alternative musical journey. In many places maybe even a little more oriental and maybe more unsetting. For instance, in one of the songs the protagonist will find himself surrounded by four white naked walls, dressed in... a straitjacket. Of course I wanted to create a lot of “light” sounds, a certain kind of lightness, on this album. And I admit that in many moments—with the help of Robert and Magda—I’ve accomplished exactly what I was dreaming of. It will surely still be a blend of everything I like, from Dead Can Dance, Peter Gabriel from IV or Passion , through films and books about ghosts, up to my favourite Silent Hill, yet I can already hear that the second album, despite the continuation, will sound differently. I hope, though, that the sounds on it will not leave the majority of the lunatic souls indifferent.”

The majority of the instrumental parts are played by Mariusz Duda himself. However, the guest musicians appear this time as well, for instance already known from the previous album Maciej Szelenbaum (keyboards, flutes, quzheng) or Wawrzyniec Dramowicz from Indukti (drums).

The new album will be released in autumn this year, in Poland by Mystic Production, and in the rest of the world by (known for the work with such bands as Porcupine Tree or Anathema) the British label Kscope.


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Lunatic Soul, the self titled debut solo record from Mariusz Duda is released on Kscope and Mystic Production!

It is in stores now, available from the Kscope shop, Mystic shop, Rockserwis
or can be downloaded from:
Napster, Amazon, iTunes

A free download is available here.

Some music is destined to move your soul in ways often unimaginable.
Stirring emotion and tweaking those heartstrings enough to make you genuinely connect music to mood and form unbreakable and psionic links that hold with you for years and years…
Like taste triggering a memory decades old, Music can do the same but sometimes on such a elevated scale, that for lesser people, it can literally bring you to tears.
Lunatic Soul is one such band.I will kindly sidestep the terrible use of genre to pigeonhole them, (post-progressive – yuk.) and concentrate solely on the music, and well, the music does it’s own talking.Vast sprawling epic songs which glide in and out of timed rhythms – Songs that grow and adapt and always, always maintain mood and sense and a – well – a sense of sexuality and sensuality and genuine love.

This album speaks volumes about the talent of Mariusz Duda, the man, the brains, behind this collection of beautiful, mysterious and captivating songs. It brings to mind memories of the first time I heard the War Of The World’s album by Jeff Wayne, the mood is palpable, it also reminds me at times of Pink Floyd, Genesis and Opeth – it IS progressive, but in a weird almost subtle, never making to much about it kind of way… The vocals are reminiscent of David Essex at his soft, crooning best – the guitars are Gilmour inspired, but yet, it always maintains a sense of purpose, of originality…

It’s superb.
It grows and melds and warps to the way you feel, and you create stories behind each of the songs that are all your own.
Lunatic Soul is a project I very much look forward to hearing from again, it is a project I hope grows and evolves at a pace that is natural and free – it survives in a world of faux sentiment simply because it has absolute honesty at it’s core.
It is a beast that has been tamed, but occasional growls a Gutteral, epic, millennia old growl to show it has things stirring at its heart – and you respect it more for that.
If you are a fan of music – you need this album in your life.It is one of the best albums of its kind out there…One of those albums that you will always think of when that smell or taste or memory drifts back to the top…

Remembering the moment.
Drifting… senses clear and wide awake.

Andi J Chamberlain, Subba-cultcha.com

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