Artist: Luna
Genre(s):
New Age
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Romantica
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
In Balance
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
Bewitched
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Time Dreaming
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Moving Moments
Year: 1989
Tracks: 8
Rendezvous
Year:
Tracks: 11
In the rouse of the rather bitter breakup of his premature band, Galaxie D, singer/guitarist Dean Wareham issued a 1991 solo EP, Anaesthesia, and appeared on the brilliant Mercury Revolutions per minute unmarried "Motorcar Wash off Hair" originally announcing the organization of a fresh band, dubbed Luna, in 1992. Originally named Luna 2, the trio was a sort of alternate pop supergroup that similarly included once Chills bassist Justin Harwood and ex-Feelies drummer Francis Edgar Stanley Demeski.
Subsequently sign language with Elektra, they debuted with the LP Lunapark, which earned comparing to Wareham's Galaxie D terminal product for his continued reliance on curt, Lou Reed/Tom Verlaine-inspired vocals and minimalist songcraft. In loyalty, distillery, Luna employed more uptempo rhythms and card shark melodies than its harbinger, a point further driven household by the 1994 chef-d'oeuvre Ensorcelled. Featuring new mo geartrain guitar musician Sean Eden, the LP as well included a guest appearance from the Velvet Underground's legendary Sterling Morrison, wHO added his distinctive guitar presence to tracks caution "Friendly Advice" and "Nifty Mary Harris Jones Street." Another node, Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier, off up to twosome with Wareham on a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg/Brigitte Bardot definitive "Comely and Clyde" for the review, 1995's Penthouse. Subtraction Demeski, Luna resurfaced in 1997 with Pup Tent.
Simply prior to releasing their fifth full-length, The Days of Our Nights, Elektra dropped the band. Eventually landing at the Jericho tag, Luna finally issued the album in the U.S. in the fall of 1999. The new millennium sawing machine many changes for the stria once once again. Creation bassist Justin Harwood left wing wing the band, moving plump for to his aborigine Newly Seeland to make pass meter sustain his babe miss. Ben Lee/Ultrababyfat bassist Britta Phillips replaced Harwood after touring with Luna during a spring 2000 tour. Their first concert record record album, Luna Endure, recorded at the 9:30 Club in Capital of the United States, D.C., in Dec 1999 and the Knitting Factory in Newly House of York in July 2000, was issued in early on 2001.
Luna wrapped up recording their sixth studio record album in tardy 2001 and prepared it for a spring 2002 liberation on Jetset Records. Entitled Romantica, it was mixed by Dave Fridmann (Mogwai, Mercury Rpm, the Fire Lips) and produced by Gene Bearer. James Byron Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips recorded a duo record album entitled Avventura that was produced by Tony Don Luchino Visconti Conte di Modrone and released in May of 2002 as well through Jetset. In 2004, after announcing their imminent retirement, the mathematical group released Rendezvous, their seventh and concluding record. To mark their tenure, Luna issued the 17-song retrospective The Best of Luna on Rhino in June 2006. A digital-only aggregation of covers entitled Lunafied as well as the Videodisc version of their Gospel According to Matthew Buzzell-directed circuit documentary, Evidence Me Do You Omit Me, both arrived in June.
