The Lunatic Sun

Written in 1993 / Recorded in 1993 and 1994

For about two and a half years before I wrote this tune, I had been focusing on writing Pop stuff for my band called Culotte. Therefore, this was the first tune over six minutes and longer I have written since a theme tune I wrote for my former band called Elegance in early 1991. This change of course for more Prog-oriented direction was rather welcomed by my band mates at that time but, with hindsight, it resulted in to only accelerate the break-up of the band.

As the title of the track indicates, the main theme of this tune was to create a piece of music that unifies a couple of opposite elements. I didn’t specify which represents which, loon/moon or sun, but I prepared a couple of short riffs of 12/8 and 14/8 to be combined in tune towards the end of the composition. The original recordings, especially Culotte’s version, was way too long so that I had to cut short to make this concise edition combined with the initial demo version recorded at home by myself.