Roma di Luna’s third studio recording ‘Casting the Bones’ is as much an exploration into the group’s sound as it is a total reinvention of the aesthetics and boundaries their previous records have established. ‘Casting the Bones’ refers to fortune telling methods of old, gambling games, and can also be interpreted as a common technique for healing a broken bone- All of these definitions fit comfortably with this collection of songs that are at once familiar, intriguing, ambitious, and posses a healing quality for both listener and songwriter alike.
Singer/songwriter husband/wife team Alexei and Channy Moon Casselle keep their feet rooted in the traditional folk song idiom with Bones while their hands seem to reach freely for whatever nuance or shape they wish to apply to their creations.
Where last year’s release of ‘Find Your Way Home felt more like the duo’s project with some assistance from hired hands, Casting the Bones is a full band collaboration at its finest with each player adding just the right ingredient and nothing more.
Another evolutionary step for Roma di Luna was the recording process itself, which supplied much more cohesive and organic results with this newest release that was recorded almost entirely in one intensive session and tracked live, as opposed to former methods of patchwork recording in which every track was recorded individually and sometimes weeks apart from each other.
Co-produced and engineered by Ben Durrant at Crazy Beast Studio (Andrew Bird, Dosh), Durrant also played electric guitar along with myriad instruments and manipulated sounds on the record giving it a layer of unworldly and ethereal undertones, yet the album remains anchored with Alexei and Channy’s comforting vocal narrative and passionate deliveries respectively.
Coming just nine months after their last album, this body of work is urgent rather than rushed, brimming with inspiration from both tragic and triumphant peaks within the group’s personal lives.
Alexei and Channy also plan to release a limited pressing of home recordings of traditional folk songs in the fall of 2008 entitled Songbook Vol.1.
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Hello, thank you very much. Yesterday was my lucky day. First I discovered a live concert on the archive and then I saw you an myspace. Your songs and the way you play and sing them made my day. Channy, your voice is a blessing. Alexei, lucky you! Best wishes, LB
We are proud to say that it is just in one short week that Pocahontas County, Justin, Jake, Jackson, and Colin, will be reunited in music again!
On Saturday August 23rd we will be playing a show at the 331 club in NE MPLS. The show starts at 9pm with Eliza Blue and other special guests.
Then, on Sunday August 24th, we, Pocahontas County, and Eliza Blue will join forces with LOUDRAY to storm the stage of the New Acadia on Cedar Ave, in the West Bank neighborhood of MPLS. This show starts at 8pm and has a $5 cover.
Both shows will be completely different sets.
So there you have it, 2 days, 2+ hours of Live Pocahontas County!!
Hope you all can clear your schedules and come on out and get supe, supe, snizzled with the band!!!
p.s. Travis and I just happened to be moving (hopefully) into a loft directly across from Mears Park on Sept 1 and were stoked to see that you're playing basically at our front door on the 5th. It'll be like one grand house-warming soiree that entire weekend!
Great show at Lees last night. I want to thank you guys for covering Summertime by Janis Joplin. I was suprised by that nobody covers Janis. You guys did that song your own way and it was great.
Thanks for the add. I agree with everyone else. Your voice sends shivers...can't wait to see you live. Have you heard of Chicken Town? You should check it out! They are on Myspace! Great for live music (a small local festival in SE Minnesota).
Thanks for the add, I am planning to see you at Lee's LQ Lounge. I don't know what it is about your music but it touches my soul. Stay positive Roma di Luna.
Remember when I said that you make us happy, and you make us cry? Well, you did both last night at Mill City Museum! Thanks again for a great show, and for shouting out, and singing out, my love for Jane.
free tonight!? i love free, and i love yous guys, what a fabulous combo. well i love your music anyway, i might potentially love you guys i suppose, but we've never met. although i did see you at pizza luce one night and kept staring awkwardly trying to place where id seen you before. remember that guy? haha! see yall tonight if i can help it. and sure i love you guys, why not eh?
halloo! thinking of you in these hot times of metamorphosis. hope the belly and the hearts involved are faring beautifully. love, light, and verse. yes.
Jim & I went to Isles Buns and Coffee on 28th & Hennepin this morning. They have AMAZING cinnamon buns the size of your head. Anyways, we walked in and "Plenty" was playing. It made me very happy :)
Alexei- regarding an original J. Hendrix poster circa 1969. was bartered for a brownie and a pint of home made tambucha at a certain "reggae by the river" back in 2004. found my self needing a place to stay after I got separated from my caravan, old Yoda looking fellow said i could secure my travel back home if I gave him J. Hendrix poster. don't know where it went... hi channy
amazing vocals!! really enjoying the new album! thanks again for performing the in-store at electric fetus! and congratulations on the mini you in womb! LO<3~PE@CE~100%
very nice at the cedar. amazing singing while with child. i could hardly breath, let alone sing during my pregnancies well done and good luck with the birth!
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