Luna Honey - Peace Lives

Luna Honey finds the sonic connection spanning the decades. The seven tracks on Peace Lives cover so much ground, it is difficult to place this composition into any particular genre. The best way to describe these sounds would be the feelings they bestow. There is a heaviness in the sense of time worn hardship. The years of struggle have a duality, producing beautiful mournful tones in conjunction with the difficult experiences survived to deliver this emotion so genuinely. The question surfaces, is it worth the sorrowful life to become so well versed? As end listeners, developing an appreciation for somber qualities is made fluid with compositions like Peace Lives. Hopefully the artists can maintain tranquil spirits, after going so deeply in.

Peace Lives clocks in at just over forty minutes. Maura Pond's voice is continually mystical and haunting. Luna Honey has many facets throughout, yet fixes itself in the emotional twilight. Rock, punk, goth, modern folk... everything lurks within these tracks. Thoughts of the artist Nico surfaced from her mid eighties offerings like the record Camera Obscura. Another comparison holding ground from the mid eighties, only in pure feeling is S.P.K.'s Zamia Lehmanni - Songs Of Byzantine Flowers. Something about the grandiose effects of a world beyond light, an embellishment from within the sanctuary finally escaping it's sacred restraints. The addition of baritone saxophonist Madeline Billhimer for this record pushed back to another mid eighties band, Treat Her Right. A version of this was mentioned in notes read about Peace Lives. Comparisons are only that, used to pin sounds and their feelings for a brief moment of inspection.

This late September cassette was released on BLIGHT. Records in an edition of one hundred. Tapes are currently available from the label. Both Luna Honey and BLIGHT are from Washington D.C., showing again how much talent resides in our capital. Luna Honey has a show coming up on November 11th at the DC9 Nightclub. Be sure to check them out, should be really special,





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