Trust your ears...
LUNABEE and SWAN don't sound like anyone else...
The following random selection of names are not conscious influences but we like them:~)
~ Nino Rota ~ David Lynch ~ John Barry ~ Francoise Hardy ~ Holgar Czukay ~ Björk ~ Elvis Presley ~ Radiohead ~ Scott Walker ~ Kurt Weill ~ Vaughn Williams ~ Gershwin ~ 70's Bowie ~ Portishead ~ Ravel ~ Poulenc ~ Air ~ Bach ~ Edith Piaf ~ Miles Davis ~ John Lee Hooker ~ Motown ~ The Beatles ~ Ella Fitzgerald ~ Tim Burton ~ Danny Elfman ~ Ennio Morricone ~
Tod Browning's Freaks ~ and bells, lots and lots of bells ~ ding, dong, ding, dong!
Lunabee and Swan met over MySpace.
It was the Spring of 2006 and Jo Swan had just made an ILYA page and was getting to grips with meeting new people in this strange new territory of self promotion.
Whilst randomly circumnavigating her way around, Jo stumbled across Lunabee's page and found that she was unable to tear herself away. In fact she wanted to move in. It was a case of 'love at first listen' and so she sent Lunabee a message saying ...''I worship the altar of Lunabee....and by the way I would love to sing on one of the songs for your next album''. A week later an entire albums worth of fabulous tracks crying out for vocals landed in the in-box of the Ilya studio computer and a beautiful relationship was born.
Lunabee and Jo would like to send Tom a great big MySpace kiss as without him they most certainly wouldn't have found eachother X : )
Some of the fruits of the Lunabee and Swan collaboration can be heard above.
Thanks for the add! I listed their music and I liked it, I think that it has a good combination of soft voices and modern rhythm. I liked the voice of smoke rings because is as blues. Congratulations, your music is very great.
