Roma di Luna: News

Hello Earthlings,


We are very, very excited to announce that our new album, Then The Morning Came, is finally finished and will be released in the Fall! We are also very excited to announce our CD Release Show at The First Avenue Mainroom on Saturday Oct 2! Tickets go on sale this Saturday, July 31 at noon and are $10 in advance, available online or at any First Avenue ticket location.

For more info www.first-avenue.com
We want to thank all of you who have supported us along the way- we couldn't have done it without you!

Also this week, Alexei & Channy head to France to perform as a duo at some music festivals, before returning home for our last shows of the summer, at The MN Zoo and State Fair's Heritage Square Stage. Both are great outdoor family-friendly events that will feature our full band.

TOUR VAN!!

Lastly, with the release of our new album, we will be touring around the region and now find ourselves in need of a van to go on tour - we're looking for a large mini van or a cargo van with seating for 6 people as well as all our music gear.

Anybody selling a van? If anyone you know has something that runs well and is interested in donating or selling it, please let us know at romadiluna@gmail.com

Last weekend we had a "focus group" of a group of fellow musicians and critical ears to help us wrap up the final touches on our upcoming full-length release. It looks like it will be "unveiled" in the fall. Local artist, Jason Jaglo, is busy working on album art while the band gets ready for a summer of great-great shows.


The duo (Channy & Alexei) will be heading to France for a couple different festivals. We were introduced to the French audience by the wonderful people at the Sur Siene Festival in Minnesota. We are eternally grateful as it has always been my dream to perform in France. This will be our second time performing in France as a duo and we hope we can bring the full band next time.

Alexei and I saw the Carolina Chocolate Drops 4 or 5 years ago when the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers (wildgoosechasecloggers.org) opened up for them at the Cedar. That performance is embedded deep in my "amazing performance" section of my memory. We are way more than excited to open for them at the MN Zoo on August 27th, 2010 and to hear them again.

A great line-up at the State Fair this year. So many stages and so many choices...we'll be at the Heritage Stage on September 5 & 6 for the "After Sundown" series. We would love to serenade your Sate Fair experience!

Also wanted to thank the great people in Duluth and The Sound Unseen Festival! We had a real good time playing for you and dancing the night away at soul night.

That's right, our new Christmas EP is now available at iTunes and other digital download websites. If you already have the EP, be sure to tell a friend who might be interested. Thank you for your support!

We have finally set up our PayPal account so that you can order our catalog directly from us via PayPal (our first title is still out of print). Just go to the 'Buy' page on this website and select PayPal as the method of transaction. This is best for us as we get more of the money that you are paying for your CD instead of a 'middle man' and we guarantee that we'll get your order to you in a quick and convenient manner. Thanks for all your support!

Hey there,

Roma di Luna's latest recording is a seven-track EP simply entitled 'Christmas.' It features refreshing takes on traditional and even contemporary 'holiday' songs and also includes two original songs.
To purchase the Christmas Ep you have a few options:
1. You can buy it at the Minneapolis record store location of The Electric Fetus (http://www.electricfetus.com/). ;
2. You can send a check for $12 to Roma di Luna P.O. Box 18262, Minneapolis, MN 55418. Make checks payable to Roma di Luna (only U.S. orders) and be sure to include a shipping address in the envelope in case the return address becomes altered or illegible in some way. If you are ordering from outside the U.S. please contact us via romadiluna@gmail.com and we will figure out an appropriate rate and shipment method.
3. You can order the album via PayPal here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=10735226



Happy Holidays!

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It's been a busy one but 2009 is slowly coming to a close. Channy and I played back to back house concerts last weekend that went really well, so keep an eye out for more of these. Also, we're in the thick of recording our new full length album due sometime in late spring/early summer of 2010. We're also planning on having a Christmas EP available at our annual Holiday Show at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis. This will definitely be a limited print and if we don't run out of copies to sell at the Cedar then we'll take some over to the Electric Fetus record store and have them available there as well while they last.
Gotta run, stay tuned!
Love,

Roma

Howdy, we've received requests to post chord charts to some of our songs. Ideally, we wouldn't have to do that in the News/Journal section but this'll have to do for now. Enjoy!

The Devil Walks
Roma di Luna, 2006.

The (Am)reel (E7)writes me another (Am)story
about the (Am)bullets that (E7)fly through the north (Am)country

(Dm)the mamas cry their (Am)lullabies
of (E7)another black son dead tonight

the (Am)streets are (E7)mourning this (Am)morning
the (Am)sewers flood with(E7) papa's (Am)blood
(Dm)And nobodies child is safe in this (Am)place
Where the (E7)devil kills just for the (Am)chase

Chorus:
(Dm)Bad news, I'm the bearer of (Am)bad news
(E7)Oh Lord tell me what we can I (Am)do

(Dm)Bad News, always bringing such (Am)bad news
Oh (E7)Lord, tell me what can I (Am)do

The (Am)devil walks, the (E7)devil is real to (Am)me
Even (Am)as I sing I can (E7)hear him gnashing his (Am)teeth
(Dm)I feel your hand I see your (Am)wall
You’ve (E7)locked him away and you will not let me (Am)fall

Chorus

I (Am)must admit love (E7)I am (Am)afraid
I (Am)cling to you but you (E7)often go (Am)away
(Dm)You are my sword, you are my (Am)shield
(E7)Dig us a well so I can be (Am)healed

Chorus

Just click on this link below (or copy and paste in your browser)...

http://www.thecedar.org/roma_di_luna_eliza_blue_holiday_special

Hey there,

This fall season Roma di Luna will be taking a break from performing in order to focus on our next studio recording and just taking it as easy as possible in general.
All the families of Roma di Luna band members will be happy to spend more quality time with their estranged musical partners (especially their babies) and I can now finally take up stick-widdling, the great American past-time.
Before we break, however, we have some exciting info to pass along:
1. Channy and Alexei Moon Casselle have been invited to take part in the ongoing Making Music series that is basically like an Inside the Actors Studio for musicians. We will be revealing our deepest, darkest secrets as well as displaying embarrassing childhood photos. Should be fun! For more info check out our Calendar).
2.We've already confirmed our X-Mas Eve Eve show again this year at our beloved Cedar Cultural Center so we hope you can make it to that special event as it will be our first performance in over three months.
3. Last but not least, in addition to working on our next full length album, we are hoping to also have a Christmas EP available at our holiday show and Channy and I are planning to collaborate with one of our dear friends and talented singer/songwriter for a stripped down home recording to appear at a time yet to be determined.

Well, that doesn't sound like too much of a break to me but it'll have to do for now.

All our best,

Roma di Luna

...is a compilation that is currently in the works with the help of Vega Productions and McNally Smith College of Music featuring Beatles songs covered by Minnesotan-born or based musicians to help raise money for music and arts education funding in the Minnesota public school system.
We were asked to participate in the this wonderful project and will be covering a tune called 'I Will' which can be found near the end of the first side of the White Album.

Roma di Luna is honored to be featured on the same compilation with such wonderful acts as
Romantica, Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles, Jeremy Messersmith & Zak Coulter (Solid Gold), The Hold Steady, Suicide Commandos, and many, many more special guest to be announced.
This album should be available around the Holiday season via Best Buy and Target so be sure to help support this project!


Peace,

Alexei Moon Casselle

Hey there, some friends of ours who have been recording some of our concerts over the last several months have made these recordings accessible to all via the internet. Just check out this site: http://www.archive.org/details/RomadiLuna
Download 'em, pass 'em along, enjoy!

I am helping to throw a benefit for a friend of my family who was recently diagnosed with acute Leukemia. Her name is Andromeda Alexander and she just gave birth to twins and has no health insurance.
Roma di Luna will NOT be performing at this event, but I will be hosting for the evening and curating the musical acts. On the bill are:
A Night in the Box
Martin Devaney
Eliza Blue
and Mary Everest

This show is Saturday, November 22nd at the 331 Club (Nord East Minneapolis)
9pm, 21+
There is no cover but donations are GREATLY appreciated
There will also be a raffle for such prizes as top-shelf massage and body work by the masseuses and estheticians of SPOT salon and boutique, cool art and craft pieces and more...
Come out and party for a good cause!
331club.com

Alexei

Roma di Luna's song 'Ghost Dance' is featured in local film 'Je Ne' Se Quoi'. For info on how to catch the movie at the Ritz theater now through July 3rd go here http://cinemarevolution.com/production.html

Alexei Casselle is featured in the July/2008 edition of METRO (Twin Cities Metropolitan) in the 'Artists We Love' section (pg. 67). Check it out!

You can watch a clip of Roma di Luna on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television)'s own program 'Almanac'. Just go to tpt.org/almanac and type roma di luna in the search engine. yeah.

Yep, our new full length album is available for download at iTunes, eMusic, Napster and many other digital download sources. Give us feedback, spread the word, hug a baby.

Grazie mille!

Our new album, Casting the Bones will be available exclusively at the Electric Fetus starting Tuesday, June 10th (after our CD release show 6/14 it will be available elsewhere, too).

We will be doing an in-store performance at the Electric Fetus on Thursday, June 12th as part of their 40th Anniversary celebration, at 7pm which will be free and open to the public.

You can also purchase tickets to our CD release show (6/14 @ Cedar Cultural Center) at the Fetus.

See you then,

Alexei

We've posted some tunes from the forthcoming album Casting the Bones at myspace.com/romadiluna. They have a better media player than our website so you can listen to full songs without them being downloaded (yay for us, boo for you).

That's right, folks! The celebration for our latest album entitled Casting the Bones will be held at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis on Saturday,June 14th. Featuring a performance by Spaghetti Western String Co. and more...
For more information you can visit www.thecedar.org. Hope to see you there!

We'll be heading back to Crazy Beast Studio in NE Minneapolis next weekend with the band to record our latest compositions. We have a whole new batch of tunes to lay down so wish us luck and hopefully we'll have a new album for you this summer. Blessings, Alexei and Channy.

I noticed in the guestbook somebody mentioned wanting the chords to our songs. If anybody actually would like me to post some of the chord charts to our tunes I'd be happy to do so. I just want to have this request confirmed so I don't spend a bunch of time putting it on here for nothin'!

I'm out.

Alexei

#6- Roma di Luna, Find Your Way Home

Husband-and-Wife duo Alexei and Channy Moon Casselle understand the value of simplicity. Though the sound is a little fuller and richer on Find Your Way Home than last year's debut EP Face of My Friends, it's just enough to accentuate the spare, haunting beauty of their music, a slightly modernized spin on traditional early-20th-century folk- the darker, more doom-laden side of that canon. Each of the Casselles writes and sings, and their talents complement each other well: Alexei, who performs with hip-hop-noir duo Kill the Vultures, brings an earnest growl of Roma, while Channy's beautiful, frail-sounding warble cuts through the songs like a winter wind.

-Christopher Bahn
Dec. 13th, 2007
Volume 43 Issue 50

Here's a link to some footage of us playing the 331 Club in NordEast Minneapolis.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sUFU6KHhyVU

Here's a link to some footage of us at our CD release show this past September.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uFZQw4AM9FQ