The start of it all!
November 15th, 2023 is the second birthday of Lunar Paths. To celebrate, we have decided to remix, remaster and re-release our first ever song, Sometime Never.
In the summer of 2021, Diane took a walk up the hill to the cemetery in the Cretan village where she has a little house. It was Dekapentavgoustos, or August 15, a festival marking the ‘falling asleep’ of the Virgin Mary. Candles had been lit in the lanterns on the graves, the cicadas were screaming, and the wind roared in from the sea, making the doors of the lanterns dance and rattle. Fascinated by the soundscape, Diane recorded it on her phone and sent the result to Kevin.
One day, a month or two later, Diane, now back in the UK, sat down at her computer and decided that she was going to teach herself how to make music using a DAW (digital audio workstation). She took some drum patterns that Kevin had sent to her, stuck them into her DAW, played around with them and started to learn all about looping and warping sounds, using sampled recordings of spinning coins and windchimes and triggering virtual instruments with a little MIDI keyboard. She remembered the recording from Crete and added it to the mix. The result was Lunar Paths’ first track, Sometime Never, which was completed on November 15th, 2021.
A meditation on mortality, the song features Diane counting in Greek the number of seconds that she has been alive, and asking what we have done with our lives to date. The sung vocal is in English, but quite a lot of it is reversed. The success of this experimental piece prompted Kevin and Diane to make a second track, and then a third, and a fourth—until finally they decided that they should probably share their work with the world and see what happens…
First available on March 13th, 2022 exclusively on SoundCloud, this extended, remixed and remastered version was released on November 15th, 2023.

Sometime Never

I’m losing my mind.  Totally losing it   Four 2 Oh!

If You Find My Mind

Cats ambient

The Man Who Sold The World (Mandoline Cover)

released March 29, 2024

https://petrilahtinen.bandcamp.com/album/three-ghosts-one-forest

https://soundcloud.com/petrilahtinen/sets/three-ghosts-one-forest

Petri Lahtinen: field recordings, electronics
Paul Mimlitsch: clarinet
Martin Hoogeboom: objects, electronics, guitar

Mixing: Martin Hoogeboom
Mastering: Rupert Clervaux

Cover design: Martin Hoogeboom

Ghost in the Forest Act 1 /// Petri Lahtinen / Paul Mimlitsch / Martin Hoogeboom

Graphikos

Marco Lucchi : organ and synthesizer
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playing with
https://soundcloud.com/user-920947015/aprilis
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aprile 2024

Omnia florent - w/anon8924

Here’s our Eurovision song entry! Well, it would be, if, we were entering it! Moonlight Love Affair is best described as a Spanglish techno/Latino/pop song with Spanish and English lines alternating through each verse, together with a Spanish chorus! The first line of each verse “Te quiero mi amor” translates as “I love you my darling” and is used as the precursor for the next line which is in English, so, if the first verse was all in English it would read as:  I love you my darling with all my heart and soul, I love you my darling when we go for a stroll. 
“I was inspired to write this song at 36,000 feet… while on the plane, flying back from a wonderful holiday with my wife!” adds John Cristal – singer/songwriter for The Maverick Band

Moonlight Love Affair

May 2, 2024
Image based on a photo by Todd Tuddle

MOREL

Collab with the great vocal artist Saskia Goethals from Belgium.

https://soundcloud.com/saskiagoethals/tracks

Lyrics blue men of the Minch:

We are in Scotland,
We hear the story of the blue men of the Minch, some sort of blue creatures looking like human but t hey live under water in deep caves
looking for sailors to drawn
and stricken boats to sink
They have a blue colour, this mythical creatures look much like humans, and are about the same size. But they have the power to create storms.
When the weather was fine they were sleeping under the surface of the water. They swim with their torsos raised out of the water, twisting and diving.
They could cause storm. The blue creatures approached the capitain of a ship
And said that he had to finish the rhyme
The capitain had to solve riddles and finish 2 rhymes of poetry.

If he couldn’t do it the ship was capsised

Blue Chief: Man of the black cap what do you say
As your proud ship cleaves the brine?
Skipper: My speedy ship takes the shortest way
And I'll follow you line by line
Blue Chief: My men are eager, my men are ready
To drag you below the waves
Skipper: My ship is speedy, my ship is steady
If it sank, it would wreck your caves.

Blue Men Of The Minch / Collab with Saskia Goethals

For The Party

Veterans of the original northern UK goth scene, the two members of Lunar Paths reside in the US and Europe, making music together online since late 2021. With memorable hooks woven through intricate, powerful percussion, laced together with haunting vocals, their eclectic sound shares traits with postpunk, darkwave & alternative indie artistes. Their music transcribes what they love, documents where they have been, and hints at where they are going.

Sometime Never

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