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Sometime Never

by Lunar Paths

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The start of it all!

November 15th, 2023 is the second birthday of Lunar Paths. To celebrate, we have decided to remix, remaster and re-release our first ever song, Sometime Never.

In the summer of 2021, Diane took a walk up the hill to the cemetery in the Cretan village where she has a little house. It was Dekapentavgoustos, or August 15, a Greek festival marking the ‘falling asleep’ of the Virgin Mary. Candles had been lit in the lanterns on the graves, the cicadas were screaming, and the wind roared in from the sea, making the doors of the lanterns dance and rattle. Fascinated by the soundscape, Diane recorded it on her phone and sent the result to Kevin in Chicago.

One day, a month or two later, Diane, now back in the UK, sat down at her computer and decided that she was going to teach herself how to make music using a DAW (digital audio workstation). She took some drum patterns that Kevin had sent to her, stuck them into her DAW, played around with them and started to learn all about looping and warping sounds, using sampled recordings of spinning coins and windchimes and triggering virtual instruments with a little MIDI keyboard. She remembered the recording from Crete and added it to the mix. The result was Lunar Paths’ first track, Sometime Never, which was completed on November 15th, 2021.

A meditation on mortality, the song features Diane counting in Greek the number of seconds that she has been alive, and asking what we have done with our lives to date. The sung vocal is in English, but quite a lot of it is reversed. The success of this experimental piece prompted Kevin and Diane to make a second track, and then a third, and a fourth—until finally they decided that they should probably share their work with the world and see what happens…

First available on March 13th, 2022 on SoundCloud, this extended, remixed and remastered version was released on November 15th, 2023.

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released November 15, 2023
Written, performed, 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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