![]() For a song based on acoustic guitars, this actually really rather rocks! The Passage carries on in a similar manner with folk driven acoustic guitar power (or it may be piccolo bass?) with an epic, resonant sound as Duda repeatedly chants: “Need to find the passage to the light, to revive…” The sense of entering a mysterious, mystical world is enhanced by Duda’s wordless shamanistic chants – one could easily imagine druidic dancing as it sweeps along to a sudden conclusion. Navvie immediately plunges us into an insistent wave of furiously strummed acoustic guitars with a hypnotic beat and occasional accordion sounds. Therefore, it seems Lunatic Soul are taking us deep into the musical woods with far more of a folk influence, the emphasis on organic sounds rather than electronica and rock. I always wanted to play that kind of music… I just wanted to finally do something which has this Folk flavour from the beginning to the end, especially as it was connected with the forest.” Lunatic Soul was formed mostly because of the influence of those artists. I wanted to focus more on my own folk backgrounds which are more Slavic or Slavonic. So everywhere there is this folk background. “Right from the beginning I was inspired by bands like Dead Can Dance, early Mike Oldfield albums, Passion by Peter Gabriel and Clannad. As he has recently shared in an interview with The Progressive Aspect: Typically, Mariusz Duda has decided to go in a completely different direction for Through Shaded Woods. Lunatic Soul’s preceding album, the excellent Under a Fragmented Sky, was an innovative album of vocal experiments and subtle electronica imbued with emotion. ![]() Anyone expecting the expansive progressive rock landscapes of Riverside will have been surprised by the sonic styles of the previous six Lunatic Soul projects, and even within the Lunatic Soul universe there is great variation between albums. Lunatic Soul albums are in a totally different world to Riverside, allowing Duda to explore areas of music and themes not usually covered by his main band. Twelve years later he is releasing the latest Lunatic Soul album, Through Shaded Woods, taking the project deep into the proverbial forests in a change in direction. In 2008, Mariusz Duda of the outstanding Polish progressive rock band Riverside released the first Lunatic Soul album, and this remarkable side project has taken on a life of its own.
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