Roma di Luna: News

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

Here's a link to our visit on the MPR's Morning Show with Jim Ed and Dale!

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/09/06/20070906_roma_di_luna/?rsssource=1

Two years after Alexei and Channy Moon Casselle began weekly busking performances at the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market under the name Roma di Luna, they proudly celebrate the release of their second recording and their first full-length album entitled Find Your Way Home (self-released/2007).
The husband and wife duo’s debut The Face of My Friends EP (2006/self-released) received modest, yet notable praise, garnering a local buzz, steady local radio play and a spot on some top ten lists of the year’s best local albums (The Onion A.V. Club, Star Tribune). The disc featured seven original tracks of old-timey style minor key ballads that sounded like home recordings with bare minimum accompaniment. The duo’s voices along with Channy’s violin and Alexei’s guitar made up the foundation of the recording, which kept true to the couple’s live performances.
If Face of My Friends was a pleasant introduction to Roma di Luna’s sound then Find Your Way Home is an invitation to wander much further into the stories and scenery that were only hinted at in the previous collection of songs. The record features twelve new tracks, eleven originals and a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” which concludes the powerful and vibrant vision that has been created within this album.
Recorded and co-produced by Ben Durrant at Crazy Beast Studio (Andrew Bird, Dosh), the album features am assortment of instruments and musicians, but the songs still remain completely intimate, sparse and true to the essence of heart-wrenching song that Roma di Luna first captured its audience with.
Roma di Luna will be celebrating the release of their new album
entitled "Find Your Way Home" at the Cedar Cultural Center in
Minneapolis, MN. They will be joined by local singer/songwriter
JoAnna James, as the Cedar kicks off their season with this FREE,
All-Ages event!
7:00pm Doors
7:30 Music

For more info check www.thecedar.org or call (612) 338.2674
Check out the bands: www.romadiluna.com, www.joannajames.com
http://www.thecedar.org/roma_di_luna_cd_release_joanna_james_free_cedar_season_kick

Whew! We finally finished our new album "Find Your Way Home" and are going to be celebrating its release on September 6th, 2007 at the legendary Cedar Cultural Center on the west bank of Minneapolis. We will be joined by the delightfully talented local singer/song writer JoAnna James as this is also the seasonal kick off show for the Cedar. The show is absolutely Free and open to all ages. Doors open at 7pm followed by music at 7:30pm

Dear you, our debut EP entitled Face of my Friends is now available for sale on such online stores as iTunes, Rhapsody and Napster. We hope this will make it more convenient to get ahold of our music and that we can now stop writing apologies to people who want our record but do not live in Minneapolis.
Here's a link to download our EP:
http://free.napster.com/view/artist/index.html?id=12349954

We're gearing up for our departure tomorrow (1/24/07) for the Blue Gypsy Revue (featuring Roma di Luna & Eliza Blue). We're extremely excited to be hitting the road and will be doing our best to post tour happenings and updates along the way. To catch the Blue Gypsy Revue check out our calendar dates. Be easy.
Alexei Moon Casselle

Here is another cell phone movie of "Ice Cold Body" taken at the Kitty Cat Klub in Minneapolis on December 23rd, 2006, where we shared a bill with Ela's Bill Caperton and Jenny Dalton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy2FQBiSkH0

I tracked down this cell phone movie of one of our songs "Plenty" filmed at the 400 Bar in Minneapolis on December 1st, 2006. We opened for Red House new-comers The Pines.
http://alineauxusa.canalblog.com/archives/2006/12/01/3326833.html