A Star at Dawn

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Wouldn’t life be wonderful if human beings could wake up one morning and simply decide to stop fighting each other and start working together, for the benefit of everyone and the entire planet? Isn’t that what most of us want?

What’s stopping us? Haven’t we got more in common than the superficial things that continue to see us at each other’s throats? We’re pretty confident that we’re not alone in thinking like this, and reckon that anyone with a passing interest in current affairs must feel the same strange mixture of despair and longing.

As we pieced this song together, these were the thoughts that kept coming to the forefront of our minds. It started with a collection of percussive patterns that Kevin sent to Diane. She started to layer and loop, and found a sample of an oud, which she stretched, transposed, duplicated and added to the mix.

Next came brass and woodwind samples, to which Kevin immediately added some bodhran. Diane got out her MIDI keyboard and created some drones—drones are becoming something of a Lunar Paths signature!—and she also wrote a bright little riff to counterpoint the sonorous boom of Kevin’s foreboding arp.

We were blown away by how rousing and proud the chorus sections started to sound, and how they contrasted with the yearning lament of the verses. The song deserved lyrics that were equally rousing, equally yearning.

Then, late one night, in conversation on Messenger, Kevin used the phrase “a rising tide…” and everything fell into place: the lyrics had to complement the pan-global vibe of the music.

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A Star at Dawn:
A rising tide
Will lift us all
But only
When we are one.
A toxic state,
A trade in hate,
In othering,
In murdering,
In fear.
Divided, we fall.
Rise up up up, look over the wall!
Hand in hand we’re over the wall!
Forgotten sun,
Pervasive night.
Awake
And be the light.
A star at dawn,
A mind reborn,
Recovering,
Discovering,
When we’re together
We soar.
Rise up up up, look over the wall!
Hand in hand we’re over the wall!

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released March 23, 2024
Written, recorded, produced and engineered by Lunar Paths.
Lunar Paths are Diane Dubois and Kevin Hunter.

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Lunar Paths Chicago, Illinois

Veterans of the original UK northern goth scene, Lunar Paths are a transatlantic musical duo. With memorable hooks woven through intricate, powerful percussion, laced together with haunting vocals, their eclectic sound shares traits with goth & alternative indie artistes. Their music transcribes what they love, documents where they have been, and hints at where they are going. ... more

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