Not gone. Perhaps only forgotten.

Its been some months again, sorry, as usual. Well let me do my best at proving that I have been actually doing stuff in the months since I last posted here. First of all, if you are here because I gave you a business card, thank you for coming by. I hope you come back and check in on this place from time to time.

Well, I suppose its high time I actually did some updating. I love where I live and it has been a great place to write and re-record alot of old music.

Uyu has an annoying habit of wanting to be in the center of anything that is happening. This was the aftermath of a several glasses of Lagavulin 16 and Ardbeg 10 and a good session of both guitar and vocals. Here is the proof. Here is the demo vocals for 'Striations'

Striations (demo Vocals) by Citizen Lusca

So along that vein, my comrade in arms for this finalizing process, Howon, came over and over a few beers we selected 9 songs from various eras of Citizen Lusca's past. I spent the next few weekends working on RE-RECORDING old material. Yes...thats right....re recording. So now there is going to be a real deal, no fucking joke, album. So we are shooting to have anything from 5-7 songs on this first official release and the B-Sides will be on a separate release that will feature some remixes from friends.

  Vindictive Pacifist (demo) by Citizen Lusca

What's the hold up? Well honestly things only really became a reality about a month ago. Since then Ive been working my butt off in whatever spare time I have to make this sound as consistent and appropriately good as possible. But I am actually waiting on the new amp, the DAR FBM-100H that is going to be on its way in a few short weeks so we can add some serious body to ALL the songs, old or new. In the meantime im working on vocals and demo-ing brand new stuff to get in on there. Hopefully things are gonna sound huge.

What else of value do I have to share? Hmmm, the custom guitar has taken on an interesting pull. Paul from DAR amps has switched hands and is now working with Strictly 7 guitars, so we are in talks about making my design a staple model for S7. Yknow who else has one of those? Ola Englund...and he is a way better guitarist than I am hahaha. Oh well. We'll see where this string follows us.

A friend of mine started shooting a short movie based around "Follow the blue tape back", I was involved with the creative and story boarding but I havent seen any result from it yet. Ill attach a few images from the story boarding process.

In the meantime I have been enjoying my lovely baritone with its newly added Distortion Parallel Axi Humbucker. Mouthful. Ive also been working on getting Citizen Lusca stuff to be officially launched with some proper apparel and artistic direction. My friend Misun was commissioned by me to do this piece for a T shirt design.

The shirts will most likely be this. The album cover is going to remain open until something really gets me. Ive been in talks with Dan Hellier about him doing a cover for me, hes both busy and expensive but god damn do I love his work.

Memory Alert:

Here is a pic of me and the old "I Am the Blade" gang for old times sake. Ahhh the old seven string. I still use it on recording, but it doesnt have the string tension like the baritone does. This picture was actually taken from a photo on Stuarts Bar's wall. We talked about finalizing the songs not to long ago actually

and us a few months ago celebrating the work we did on his bar.

Obligitory Mascot photos:

And since I missed Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving.

And just in case I forget. Have a happy holiday season.

Merry Christmas.

Cheers!

-Citizen Lusca

(yes I can bake)

Comments

[Sunnie @Online Flyer Printing]

Breathtaking! I love the shot of the forest. I get an eerie feel every time I browse up.

[Citizen L]

I love that picture too. Very inspiring to me.