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Both Robert and Bertrand provide artistic renderings of the highest taste and quality for monsteraday.com
Bertrand has a few other, rather lower-brow, etchings displayed at his own zantoandnina.com
Previous long-forgotten bands members of Lunasam once belonged to before espousing eternal oblivion, such as the Modernes Pickles or Carnivore, are featured in-depth at satanbelanger.net
Band members
The project is both a return to form and a labor of love by three eternally damned souls of the city's underground rock scene.
The youngest member, Robert, plays rhythm guitar and is the genius behind the unearthly keyboard solos that spiral into the ether. He's also the one who is rumored to sing certain tracks as Count Downe, a melancholic 400 year-old vampire who hungers to do Cream covers.
The hefty guitar, lap steel and balalaika solos throughout the CD are by Denis, who brings his demented sensibilities to a decidedly apocalyptic sound.
Bertrand plans, arranges, and executes the recordings, yet no corpse has ever been found.
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In that case, Robert suggests you visit the following hyperlinks for a full and complete mental obliteration:
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Lunasam welcomes you to its netherworld
Within these pages you will enjoy frightening music, odd music and perhaps even uplifting music by Lunasam, a rock band from Quebec City. The uplifting being performed, of course, by ghostly demons bent on vengeful reckoning.
Your ultimate and only hope is to purchase the CD
Morbide sem phasellus lugosi nisu! The secret truth is within the pages of our first CD's booklet. Now only ten measly dollars post paid for supernatural immortality!
Produced entirely by the band and two years in the making, this debut has appeared like a specter with 17 songs and over 75 minutes of hymns recanting such topics such as car accidents, by and for vampyres, among other delights. Lyrics are ironic and pernicious, yet hopeful and upbeat. Three poems from early French surrealists Robert Desnos, Benjamin Péret and Pierre Gripari were put into music. The CD booklet provides lyrics and illustrations by cult leader and producer Robert along with photography by our very own Igor, the faithful Daniel Pelletier.
But for those who are without means, and yet can somehow shamelessly surf the Internet in broadband fashion despite repeated vows of poverty, we have indeed MP3 songs! In fact a new one every week! Gargantua miraculis!
This week's featured song, complete, not on any CD and appearing here only, is:
"Buzzed"
Music and lyrics : Robert and Bertrand, solo guitar by Denis
Please return here next week for a new song!
...and now, let us dwell longer on Lunasam's latest CD!
Nullam elementum sem nec urna! Closely adhering to our own scriptures, here are brief song-by-song revelations:
Constantly segueing from one meaning of the French word "diable" to the other, the song "Diable Depot ®" therefore alternately translates to "Devil Depot" or "Trolley Depot", an infinitely vast warehouse store selling both useful transport tools and eternal damnation. There's a never-ending fire sale, a 200 square mile parking lot with six free spaces left and long lines like you wouldn't believe leading to the cash registers of the Beast.
Listen to "Diable Depot ®" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
"World of pain", a standard off the Cream album "Disraeli Gears", was in fact written by Mountain bassist Felix Papalardi and his wife, who (accidentally, she claims) murdered him by gunfire some time later: this bit of trivia was unknown to the band members until after the CD was completed. In Lunasam's version of the song, Count Downe, like a modern-day serial killer, happily contemplates his contribution to crime in the city as he stalks his next prey. (Hopefully that will not chill your blood too much).
Listen to "World of pain" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
"Cosmo maman insiste toujours" (Cosmo Mama always insists), where singer Marianne Legendre is a mother helping her young offspring to learn how to cross the road by looking both sides first. Unfortunately children learn by example, and Cosmo Mama's demonstration here is quite catastrophic.
Listen to "Cosmo maman insiste toujours" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
"Guantanamo Bay", is the sobering tale of a travel agency selling an alluring Caribbean Island package deal to its Middle Eastern clientele. Denis and Sabrina sing in French: "Guantanamo Bay, mourir à (dying in) Guantanamo Bay". Sound familiar?
Listen to "Guantanamo Bay" by Lunasam in MP3 (complete song) by clicking here
"Pay attention with love" manages to trip up on confusing verb tenses, but its message of peaceful vigilance remains as sharp and clear as its razor-like guitar solos.
Listen to "Pay attention with love" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
For "Nada dinero al banco (where did the money go?)", Lunasam has two guest vocalists: first Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, along with an anonymous conspirator of the Illuminati, a conspiratorial organization which acts as a shadowy power behind the throne, controlling world affairs through present day governments and corporations in order to bring about the New World Order. Partisans of both sides happily shout slogans.
Listen to "Nada dinero al banco (where did the money go?)" by Lunasam in MP3 (complete song) by clicking here
"Boucane sur le fleuve" is a French-Canadian adaptation of Deep Purple's classic "Smoke on the water", where the body of water referred to is now the St-Lawrence River (Fleuve St-Laurent) with the song recounting the sinking of a ferry between Matane and Godbout: the wildly inspired guitar and keyboard solo section of this track is one of the highlights of the CD.
Listen to "Boucane sur le fleuve" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
"Butterfly" by Robert is a piece that was originally written for children. Biomechanical perfection, butterfly effects and summer loving: Sabrina partners here to provide vocals and to add that pastoral touch.
Listen to "Butterfly" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
"Méphistophélès dit non" (Mephistopheles says no) where Denis, affecting an old time Italian crooner charm, embodies Mephisto himself, constantly complaining about the blinding light of reason, lamenting that it was much better back in the time when beings were not born yet. Creation is just not his bag.
Listen to "Méphistophélès dit non" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
"Dark" -- Under a soft and moist earth, shielded from dawn, the Darker brothers do not fear the sun as their caskets are opaque.
Listen to "Dark" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
Who would blame a landlord ("Propriétaire") from keeping his nose to the grindstone and his eye on the bottom line? Only an annoying and unworthy tenant, that's who. Denis does a lap steel guitar solo to peel paint off the walls and unclog a toilet in the middle of this a 180 beat per second dash.
Listen to "Propriétaire" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
An indecisive metrosexual now has to choose between two ladies : Amber or Claire ("Il faut que je choisisse entre mes deux blondes: Amber ou Claire"), two ladies with no hidden vices whatsoever (i.e., those vices are all out in the open). French mezzo-soprano Claire Croiza (1882-1947) plays the role of crazed religious looney Claire.
Listen to "Il faut que je choisisse entre mes deux blondes: Amber ou Claire" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
"Rrose Sélavy" was in fact French surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp who wandered the streets of Paris in an elegant evening gown, back in the age of oranges. A poem by Robert Desnos...
Listen to "Rrose Sélavy" by Lunasam in MP3 (complete song) by clicking here
"Moonshine" for "Moonshine of your blood", is another Cream cover by Count Downe, this one of "Sunshine of your love". The wolves howl along with Elsa as the Count suavely seduces his beloved. Their love will be enjoyed to the last drop.
Listen to "Moonshine of your blood" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
"Raven's way": beyond Alfred Hitchcock or Edgar Allan Poe's wildest imaginings, here intelligent birds are allowed by the government immigration board to invade us, stealing our jobs and our women. The ravens, living off profits we unwittingly helped them acquire, buy eveything in sight, including big oil companies. Are we the road-kill on the side of the road to progress?
Listen to "Raven's way" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
The last moments before that long-promised tunnel of light is the theme of "Théâtre de la fin d'une vie" (End-of-life theater), a one-act play. Denis interprets all the roles over music by Robert, including all the voices in the Greek chorus.
Listen to "Théâtre de la fin d'une vie" by Lunasam in MP3 (excerpt) by clicking here
Elsa sings a text by Benjamin Péret from the 1920s, "Odeurs de l'amour' (Odors of Love), explaining that wild passion is held together by mere strings and must be consummated before the sun explodes like a ripe fruit.
Listen to "Odeurs de l'amour" by Lunasam in MP3 (complete song) by clicking here
