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The First Moon

by Lunari

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1.
Spiritual Apperception 05:43
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2.
The First Moon 07:57
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3.
Boon Thoughts 09:24
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4.
Namah Shivaya 12:05
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5.
Sedate The Moon 11:04
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Oxalic Acid 07:21
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Knekt 06:12
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Dried Cactus 10:00
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about

Unreleased Goa Records proudly presents ‘The First Moon’, an amazing album by Lunari, another well-known Swedish project of the tracker scene. Jonas Loman started to produce Goa Trance music in 1999. The first track that got him into this music was the famous hit ‘Jungle Trax’ by Pleiadians. It inspired him to dig deeper and to explore mostly compilations, much easier to find in local stores, compared to individual artists’ albums or EPs. Jonas's first experiments were high tempo ‘goaesque’ Hardcore tracks, a genre he was heavily into at the time. After going to Arvika for the first time in 2000, Jonas decisively switched his focus on Goa Trance, to which he infused elements of other favorite genres such as Rock, Grunge, Punk, Chiptunes and Oldschool video game soundtracks, in order to shape his unique style and approach of psychedelic music.

The sounds of the tracker scene played also a major role. Jonas founded the tracker group ‘Radical Motion Records’ and published a number of tracks on it during the years it was active (1998-2001), connecting with many artists who produced Goa Trance music at the time. He originally named his Goa Trance project ‘Lunarian’ for a couple of tracks, but used it interchangeably with ‘Lunary’ and ‘Lunari’ over the course of the project. He eventually stuck with the latter after a guest appearance on Cadra’s netlabel Sublogic Corporation in 2001.

Lunari, the plural form of the Italian adjective ‘luna’, corresponds to multiple moons. Hence Jonas decided to name one of his tracks ‘The First Moon’ and, subsequently, the album as a whole, as the name implies retrospectively the ‘first phase’ of his musical evolution in the psychedelic realm. The eight tracks featured here were all written over a specific period of time, between 2000 and 2002, using Impulse Tracker 2 and a bunch of low-resolution samples. In 2006, Jonas started ‘Reunion’ as a follow-up of Radical Motion, in an effort to ‘reunite’ all artists of the 1990’s tracker music scene he used to interact with. At that time he was already focusing on another project called 'Platonist', which is more Video Game Music oriented, yet still relatively danceable.

Over the past few years, for the purpose of this album, Jonas spent considerable time and energy to rework and optimize the original versions of his Lunari tracks, which were previously published in MP3 format only on his own site between 2000 and 2002. Their final form is indeed a vast improvement. They are all released here in full audio quality for the first time.

Exclusively available on Bandcamp is a bonus EP containing five Lunari tracks written between 1999 and 2001, considered lost for good and miraculously found after ‘The First Moon’ album was reworked. They are offered for free, with the permission of the artist, only to the supporters who purchase the album on said platform.

Tracklist:

01. Spiritual Apperception
02. The First Moon
03. Boon Thoughts
04. Namah Shivaya
05. Sedate The Moon
06. Oxalic Acid
07. Knekt
08. Dried Cactus

Bonus EP: The Forgotten Tracks (1999-2001)

01. Tropical Sun
02. The Forgotten City (Short Edit)
03. Communication (Cut)
04. Solar Flare
05. Midlight

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released May 16, 2022

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Jonas Loman
Mastered by: Kobi Harosh
Artwork [hand drawn] by: Kim Ove Pettersson
Executive producers: Vas Cosmogenesis, Federico Draeke
Catalogue number: UGR 032

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