MARIUSZ DUDA (RIVERSIDE / LUNATIC SOUL) – INTERIOR DRAWINGS PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON VINYL.

In 2020, Polish multi-instrumentalist Mariusz Duda (Riverside, Lunatic Soul) decided to conduct an experiment. He set out to create a third music world, independent of his band ‘Riverside’ & project Lunatic Soul. A world which would differ stylistically from the previous two & underline his first steps in music.

30 years ago, a certain shy boy fascinated by the works of Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, or Tangerine Dream, locked himself up in his room & started to think up his original music stories. He recorded them on cassette tapes, created covers for them & arranged them on the shelf next to those of his masters. 30 years later, when the world was taken over by a pandemic & an international lockdown, Mariusz was beamed back to his childhood bedroom, reading & drawing comic books, playing games, listening to lots of music from cassette tapes… & recording his own electronic sounds. “Why not do it again?” He thought to himself, feeling inspired. “Why not create a new project where I will play only the keyboards? And why not sing it just like I used to when I was a kid ? Simply ‘Mariusz Duda'”. And that’s exactly what he did. Between 2020 & 2021, he recorded & released online three electronic albums that make up the so called “Lockdown Trilogy”.

The final of the three albums, ‘Interior Drawings’, is the first to get the vinyl treatment. The album comes packaged in a gatefold sleeve & pressed on 140g black vinyl.