The cool cats from BEST Magazine (Florian specifically) came to ask us all sorts of questions in between the sound check and the release concert in Paris at Café de la Danse. So (spoiler alert) we decided to keep the current line-up!
The gig was great: flashing lights, temperatures rising, a lot of sound, enthusiastic audience. It was an exceptional night. LUX brought along some guests of our own starting with Jake El Tao, the guitarist from JESUS VOLT who joined us on Radio Static and Super 8, to another super guitarist, Michaal Benjelloun (for Winter in NY)…
THANK YOU ! Words are insufficient to describe how very grateful LUX is to all the people who contributed to our crowdfunding. Nearly 100 people participated on and off the kisskissbankbank website to help bear the costs of recording our first album. And here they all are, the believers and the dreamers,…
When it came time to bring out the second single, we realized that we needed to find the appropriate follow-up to “A Son of Sam”. It was winter and the idea of one of the slower and darker songs – our first consideration – suddenly seemed less like a good idea. “The Ballad of John”…
LUX is a new name for a project that began in 2009 when Sylvain Laforge found his way into my orbit in Paris. The songs came forth like water and still do and we began gigging in Paris a few months after our meeting. Perhaps we were so entranced by the writing and composing that…
It was intense, it was glorious, it was well-received. We played the entirety of GRAVITY and two other songs from Super 8 in front of a wonderful audience. The Café de la Danse is superb and they gave us a very kind welcome. Merci Paris and thank you to everyone who helped make GRAVITY fly….
photo LUX by Jehsong Baak “Super 8” is out! and wending its way towards journalists and a new audience. Here is some of what they have to say so far: Guitar Part “…what hits one right at the start is the sound of this album, ample and generous, which has the feel of warm wood,…