Roma di Luna - Casting The Bones
ARTIST.....: Roma di Luna
TITLE......: Casting The Bones
LABEL......: Self-Released
URL........: http://www.romadiluna.com
RIP DATE...: Aug-17-2008
STORE DATE.: Jun-14-2008
GENRE......: Folk
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 69,6 MB
Track Listing:
01 - The Romance Of Wolves 04:30
02 - Tamar 04:13
03 - Trouble Down The Road 03:33
04 - Red Walls 03:28
05 - Wildfire 06:10
06 - Fortune Teller 03:04
07 - I Can't Afford To Be Broke 02:59
08 - Silver Dagger 03:41
09 - These Tears Ain't Mine (Reprise) 03:39
10 - I'm Gone 04:43
11 - Pearls For Pigs 03:28
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43:28 min
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/romadiluna
http://www.crazybeaststudio.com
Roma di Luna's third studio recording "Casting the Bones" is as
much an exploration into the group's sound as it is a total
reinvention of the aesthetics and boundaries their previous
records have established. "Casting the Bones" refers to fortune
telling methods of old, gambling games, and can also be
interpreted as a common technique for healing a broken bone - All
of these definitions fit comfortably with this collection of songs
that are at once familiar, intriguing, ambitious, and possess a
healing quality for both listener and songwriter alike.
Singer/songwriter husband/wife team Alexei and Channy Moon
Casselle keep their feet rooted in the traditional folk song idiom
with Bones while their hands seem to reach freely for whatever
nuance or shape they wish to apply to their creations.
Where last year's release of "Find Your Way Home" felt more like
the duo's project with some assistance from hired hands, Casting
the Bones is a full band collaboration at its finest with each
player adding just the right ingredient and nothing more.
Another evolutionary step for Roma di Luna was the recording
process itself, which supplied much more cohesive and organic
results with this newest release that was recorded almost entirely
in one intensive session and tracked live, as opposed to former
methods of patchwork recording in which every track was recorded
individually and sometimes weeks apart from each other.
Co-produced and engineered by Ben Durrant at Crazy Beast Studio
(Andrew Bird, Dosh), Durrant also played electric guitar along
with myriad instruments and manipulated sounds on the record
giving it a layer of unworldly and ethereal undertones, yet the
album remains anchored with Alexei and Channy's comforting vocal
narrative and passionate deliveries respectively.
Coming just nine months after their last album, this body of work
is urgent rather than rushed, brimming with inspiration from both
tragic and triumphant peaks within the group's personal lives.
Alexei and Channy also plan to release a limited pressing of home
recordings of traditional folk songs in the fall of 2008 entitled
Songbook Vol.1.