Lunatic Soul – “Impressions”

“Impressions” is a collection of instrumental compositions, an addition to the story told on the black and white Lunatic Soul albums. Those songs without lyrics, with scarce vocal parts limited to being just a background, are more ambient in style, resembling a soundtrack to a film or a video game. The titles of those new compositions are linked to the lyrics and themes introduced in the black and white diptych.

MD: Since the beginning I´ve treated Lunatic Soul as music for a film. Unfortunately, if anybody wanted to create a soundtrack out of it, it wouldn´t be possible because of the small number of instrumental pieces. When we were recording the black and the white album, we composed a lot more material that later for different reasons was not included on the albums. Now nothing stops us to gather them together into a unified whole and release them on additional CD’s. I think that thanks to this the whole story will gain the adequate depth and character. At first we thought that “Impressions” would be divided into two parts and added to the new releases of the black and white albums. But after hearing the first part the Kscope team suggest to gather them all together and create a separate album. I thought It would be really cool idea.

Lunatic Soul “Impressions” will be a limited number release available through Kscope , scheduled for Oct 10th.

Lunatic Soul II, the second solo album from Mariusz Duda is finally on vinyl. This double heavyweight (180gsm) vinyl edition is limited to 2000 copies and comes packaged in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves.

Side A
1. The In-Between Kingdom
2. Otherwhere
3. Suspended In Whiteness

Side B
1. Asoulum
2. Limbo
3. Escape from ParadIce

Side C
1. Transition

Side D
1. Gravestone Hill
2. Wanderings

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We’re very pleased to inform that “Lunatic Soul II” has been chosen album of the month in the latest issue of a prestigious German magazine Eclipsed. The album received 9/10 points in the November issue, and the song “Wanderings” from it is the first track on the CD added to the magazine.

It’s worth reminding that in Eclipsed’s 2008 best-CD-of-the-year top chart the first Lunatic Soul album reached a high 6th place.

October 25th, 2010 has been set as the release date of the second album of Lunatic Soul, a project conceived by Riverside’s singer and bass player Mariusz Duda. The white album, a continuation of 2008’s black album, constitutes the second and last part of the diptych about the journey through the underworld.

Mariusz Duda: It will again be a story about a journey through a place that exists somewhere in-between, enriched with new motifs and retrospections. A sort of a road movie about a lost soul. Musically speaking perhaps more intense and unsetting than the first part but with the predominance of certain space and lightness that can be–I hope so–associated with the colour white. Hence, the album is a sort of a continuation but certainly not a repetition.