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Legends of Nantucket Island

by Lunar Cape

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Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it– a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background. There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper. Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering as to the backs of sea turtles.
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The format of the album is untrivial. On the one hand, it’s a conceptual album traditional for the progressive rock genre. Instrumental compositions with a piercing solo flute are in line with the main theme - a trip on a sailing whaleship that started on its metaphysical journey from the Nantucket Island.

On the other hand, it’s an audiobook where the legends of Nantucket Island from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, or the White Whale are read to the accompaniment of music and the sounds of the ocean. By the way, these ocean sounds are not an imitation – they are the actual, real field recordings from the northeast coast of North America.

“If you think about it, the Earth is a tiny island on the edge of the Universe. As we look at it from the far side of the Moon, we’re inviting everyone to join us, the adherents of the moon-centric concept of the universe, Homo Lunaticus,” - says Andrey Shashkov, a band member.

This album format, the synthesis of music and fairy tales, as well as the “moon-centric” concept itself, are not new for the band. In 2019, the Lunar Folk Tales album was released. True, according to the musicians, in Folk Tales it was the words that were born after the music and began to describe it, and not vice versa.

The Golden Age, a painting by Alexander Korotich, graces the album cover. The artist has also designed several dozen vinyl records and CDs of musicians from the Sverdlovsk rock club (Nautilus Pompilius, Chaif, Gleb Samoilov, Nastya, etc.)

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released November 15, 2022

Olga Scotland – flute, alto recorder, melodica, tin whistle, bells, glockenspiel, ocarina
Andrey Shashkov – bass guitar, bass recorder, voice (9)
Roman Smirnov – guitar, voice (7, 9)
Alexey Sulyaev – drums

Guest musicians
Maria Gorodetskaya – piano (3, 7)
Paul Bulak – Hammond organ emulation (1), djembe (5)
Paul Ekholm – vocals (3, 9)
tim.kahn (2, 9), SergeQuadrado (8) – sound effects, noises

Narrators: Toyah Willcox (2), Incognito (4)
Text: Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick, or The Whale”
Recording: Nikolay Vengrzhanovich, Olga Scotland, Paul Bulak
Mixing and mastering: Nikolay Vengrzhanovich
Executive producer: Nikolay “Bignick” Bogaychuk
Design: Alexander Korotich “360°”The design of the album uses the graphic work of A. Korotich "Golden Age" (1992)
© 2022, Lunar Cape / ArtBeat Music

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Lunar Cape | Мыс Луны Moscow, Russia

"Lunar Cape" exports instrumental music to Earth, clear (as the moon dwellers thought) to a broad earthling audience. Music that could be a soundtrack to a film, cartoon, video game, or a certain performance.The best way to describe the heart of the matter is the term “Filmusic”.
Release “Lunar Folk Tales” (2019) earned high praise from music media, including PROG MAGAZINE.
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