LUNAIRES’ Debut Album "If All the Ice Melted" blends electronica, post-punk and shogaze with a visionary approach – Mastered by Giovanni Versari (Grammy Award 2016 for “Drones” by Muse)
Lunaires is the new project by Danilo Carnevale and Patrizia Tranchina, ex-members of Jeunesse d'Ivoire, an underground legendary Italian wave band active from the early through mid-Eighties. The group reformed as Ivories in 2010 and, after recording and touring extensively, disbanded in 2016.
Lunaires’ debut LP is the result of a demanding two-year period where both members were facing family loss in different ways. It’s an emotional album about challenging struggles and definitive departures– and how to live with them.
Documented in compelling songs, The LP is an eyewitness account of losing battles with mortality and the small changes beginning healing process. Yet the charm, however dark, of If All the Ice Melted is in raising questions - in the subtle, elegiac lift featured in most songs. From the goth influenced, mournful opening Unbound, through the upbeat bittersweet electronica meets Dream-pop of Spring Waiting Still, to the closing mix between shoegaze and new-wave of Into the Deep End, the moods shift between shades and light, dealing with total physical erosion, facing the ruthlessness of Nature and the quest for meaning. Through the whole album there’s no hiding in emotional distance.
Lunaires is the landing point of a long musical journey which embodies and testifies two very distant and still related musical eras, that of the crudest and most innocent post-punk of thirty years ago and today electronica, bordering on psychedelia, shoegaze and krautrock. Having experienced the beginnings of post-punk in real time as forerunners allows Lunaires a long look and a musical richness not easily found in contemporary bands.
credits
released May 25, 2019
Patrizia Tranchina: vocals
Danilo Carnevale: guitars, programming, synths, soundscapes
All songs by Lunaires
Music production, arrangements & sound design by Danilo Carnevale
Mixed by Paolo Gozzetti @FLTR
Mastering by Giovanni Versari @La Maestà
Special thanks to Fred Ventura and Paolo Gozzetti
band picture by Simona Masoni
cover picture by Ibai Acevedo
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Dark but uplifting at the same time, this album features powerful vocals and an irresistible combination of electronic elements and strong guitar that harken to what made me love New Order back in the day, except this band has a truly amazing vocalist! The mood, the energy, the soaring vocal passages, and not a wasted note-these all combine to create a strong, hopeful, and powerful album that is just what we need right now. If you buy via Bandcamp,consider giving a little bump over asking price! cstipp