Louna group: history of creation, composition, style

Louna is a Russian rock band. Some journalists refer to it as a "side project" of another famous rock band called Tracktor Bowling. Musicians, however, deny this definition in an interview. They insist that the Louna group is an independent project. The collective received popularity in 2010, when the debut album "Make Loud!" Was released. Immediately the songs of this group were headed by popular "thematic" charts.

Group name

It happened, as it is not hard to guess, from the word Luna. The finishing touch was the letter "o", added to the name of guitarist Ruben.

Genre

The genre of this group can be defined as experimental alternative music. Some people think that this is an alternative metal. Creativity of the team is at the junction of a variety of style trends and genres of recent times. The Louna group is one of the most unusual projects on the Russian stage today. In her songs you can hear the echoes of an alternative line, which is the main one. At the same time, grungy notes also sound (post-grunge - in the official version). One can say with certainty that the genre to which the work of this group could be attributed does not yet exist. Therefore, it makes no sense to build analogies. The attribution to such a genre as an alternative metal is somewhat contrived. You can consider the creativity of this collective experiment, which has already proved its worth. The Louna group has thoughtful, vivid texts. They are aimed at combating various vices of our time, including social injustice and religious fanaticism.

Group members

Vocalist Louna is Lusine Gevorgyan. She currently participates in 2 teams at the same time, also performing in the Tracktor Bowling team. Today, a large number of people believe that it is the founder of the alternative vocals of our country.

The second participant is Vitaly Demidenko, who is known more as Wit. He's the bass player of the band. He also participates in Tracktor Bowling. Vitali has his own fan club.

The guitarist of the band is Ruben Kazaryan. In combination, he is the author of texts in English. Ruben played in bands such as Ens Cogitans and Southwake.

Another guitarist is Sergey Ponkratiev. He was also seen working with the two collectives mentioned above - Ens Cogitans and Southwake.

Drummer - Leonid "Pilot" Kinzburg. He is a talented drummer and a longtime fan of the Tracktor Bowling group.

Creating a group

Creation of the group belongs to September 2008. It was then that the participants of Tracktor Bowling, the Moscow alternative group, Vitaly Demidenko and Lusine Gevorgyan founded this team. Also they were joined by guitarists Sergey Ponkratiev, Ruben Kazaryan and drummer Leonid Kinzbursky.

In the creative work of the team, the bet was immediately made on a powerful sound, as well as on the intellectual content of the texts. The songs of the band Louna charge the listener with energy, make him think.

First performances, first awards

May 23, 2009 the first performance of the band took place. It is considered the date of his birth. The performance took place in the club "Point" of Moscow. A young and not very well-known team in 2009 became the owner of the RAMP prize, having received it in the nomination "Opening of the Year". Rock group Louna in the future has won in the music environment more famous. Louna was the headliner at various rock festivals. In 2009 - at the Extreme Girlzz Fest, in 2010 - at the Metal Summer Fest "and" Neighboring World ", in 2011 - on" Invasion "and Kubana, in 2012 - also on" Invasion "and Kubana, etc.

The debut album

The debut album of the group "Make it louder!", As we have already said, appeared in 2010, in the summer. Its release was made in the fall in the same year. In the history of the team, this event was a turning point. Strongly expressed uncompromising social position and non-standard music provoked the interest of the general public, as well as the media. Note that in the recording of the debut album Dmitry Spirin, leader of "Cockroaches!" Took part. (Russian punk band), as well as Ervin Khachikyan, keyboard player of the System Of A Down band.

Growing popularity

In February 2011 the collective presented the single "Who Do You Believe?", Made together with the singer of the band Lumen Rustem Bulatov. In the summer of the same year, at the invitation of the organizing committee of the "Invasion-2011" Louna performed on the main stage of this festival, along with such Russian rock stars as Alisa, Gleb Samoylov, DDT, Kipelov, Spleen, , "Pilot", "King and Jester", "Chaif", "Bravo", "Bi-2" and others.

The composition "Fight Club", included in the debut album, in January 2011 entered the rotation of "Our Radio". And a week later - and in the "Chart dozen" (rock charts). This song climbed to second place and managed to last 16 weeks on the chart. Later, in the summer of the same year, another song of the group - "Make it louder!" - for the month reached the top of the hit parade and within 2 weeks did not give up the position.

The Expert Council of Chartova Dozen, Top-13 (annual award), the Louna group was nominated for the final in 3 nominations - "Best Soloist", "Song of the Year" and "Breakthrough". In addition, the team was invited to speak at the award ceremony, which was held at Crocus City Hall on March 7, 2012. Louna won the award, having won the "Song of the Year" nomination ("Fight Club").

Second album

The band's second album, "Time X", was released in February 2012. Several tracks of protest themes were included in the CD. In addition, the composition of the album included several lyrical compositions. In the same year, in March, solo concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow were held, dedicated to the release of the second album. 14 new songs entered it. The recording was attended by Sergey Mikhalkov, the leader of the famous group "Lyapis Trubetskoy", as well as Alexander Ivanov, the leader of the group "NAIV" (disbanded in 2009) and the current project "Radio Chacha".

In an interview with S. Mikhalok said that he likes to work with musicians from Louna. He noted that most of the duets in rock and roll and on the stage are created when producers want to take advantage of it. However, Louna is not a commercially oriented project.

A new assault on the "Chart Dozen"

The song "Everyone has the right" was in the rotation of "Our Radio" from February 2012. She stayed in the "Chart Dozen" for more than two months, reaching the third place. The composition "Mama" in August 2012 for three weeks in a row headed the hit parade. In total, it lasted more than three months.

By June 12, 2012, the group's performance on the "Milestone March" refers. Along with the main studio activity, an English-language album is also being prepared. The band, according to the musicians, has plans to perform at the biggest rock festivals, including world-class events.

"People are looking up" is a song that started on the air of "Our Radio" on November 16, 2012. It was also filmed a clip by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, who previously made clips of this group for the songs "Mom" and "Make Loud".

Louna conquers America

In 2013, on January 25, it became known that the first English-language album of the band will be released under the title Behind a Mask. In its publication will participate label Red Decade Records. The song Mama on March 22 first sounded on the Chicago radio 95FM WIIL On the air after that, 138 Americans phoned. About 75% of them said that they liked the song. One even confused the vocalist Louna with the soloist In This Moment. Single Business was released on March 26, and then a high-budget clip with the same title was presented, which was presented to Western audiences. Also in 2013, on February 24, the English language site of the group began to operate. Then the track list of the future debut album appeared.

On the basis of the popular vote on February 24 of the same year, L. Gevorkyan was recognized as the best rock vocalist of Russia. She went around Helavis, Diana Arbenin, Zemfira and Olga Kormuhina. Vocalist of the group Louna won the "Best Soloist" award, which she received from the hands of Nikita Vysotsky, a famous actor.

The first English-language album of the band was released on April 30, 2013 (Behind a Mask). In various online publications in the US, he received positive reviews.

A tour of the US cities took place in the fall of 2013. Louna played concerts in 26 American cities together with The Pretty Reckless, a band from the US, and Heaven's Basement, an English band. For 44 days Louna passed 13 states. As part of the tour, in addition to live performances, the group gave numerous interviews, performed at a Chicago radio station with an acoustic set and was received with great interest by American radio listeners. The songs of the band were in the rotation of the seven largest radio stations in America, and the song called Up There in the hit parade WIIL FM took the 13th place. At the American concerts, all albums and paraphernalia were sold, which indicates a high interest in the work of the collective.

The album "We are Louna"

The albums of the group Louna joined the list on December 1, 2013 with the appearance of a new one - "We are Louna". It was recorded using crowbanding, that is, with the money of listeners. Fundraising was recognized as one of the most successful in the history of musical croweding in our country. In autumn 2013, a large-scale tour of the United States took place.

2014 in the history of the group

In 2014, there was work on a video for the song "With You". He left on June 30th. In May of the same year the band played two anniversary concerts for their fifth anniversary in the capital, and one - in St. Petersburg. During the fifth anniversary, her friends made speeches with the group. Among them, Ilya Cherta, Rustem Bulatov, "Cockroaches!", "Elysium", "Brigade Contract", "Prince", "Stigmata", "Fantasy", etc. Also there was a documentary film titled "We are Louna" .

2015

In 2015, the premiere of the song "The Road of a Fighter" took place in the "Chart Dozen". The song immediately hit the sixth place, and a month later headed the hit parade.

In February the group returned to concert activity. Also the interest to it from the mass media increased: the collective was more actively invited to the airs of various radio stations. From January to May this year, the group visited 40 Russian cities, covering almost all regions. This tour, which got the name "Even louder!", Is at the moment the largest in the history of the collective. Virtually all the cities of this tour had sold out. According to the unanimous opinion of the capital and regional promoters, Louna is at the moment one of the most popular rock bands in Russia.

May 30, 2015 the discography of the group Louna replenished with the collection The Best of, which included the best songs. Bonus tracks - "The Way to Yourself" and "Freedom" (in acoustic arrangement). "In me" is a song that entered the album in the version recorded together with D. Rishko.