AMAZING REVIEW OF "PRECARIOUS KARMA"
"Precarious Karma ( studies of the absolute ) is more than just an album. It’s a genre-defying showcase of heart, skill, and fearless creativity. Every track explores new terrain, but the journey feels cohesive emotionally rich and structurally sound. It’s music made by a mind that won’t quit, even if the body sometimes must.
Seek it out, play it loud, and raise a glass to the mad genius who made it happen. "
REVIEW OF "POSTCARDS FROM THE ABSOLUTE "
A fantastic review of the latest Heretic Savant EP from the consistently excellent " Our mind on music "
NEW EP FROM "HERETIC SAVANT"
A new EP of Ambient/Dub/Noise from Luminous's alter ego "Heretic Savant" has just been released "Postcards from the Horizontal" all produced and performed on a limited selection of machines.
https://luminous1.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-the-horizontal
VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH LUMINOUS
An excellent and insightful interview discussing all manner of creative and musical topics, have a watch and follow the channel, there's a lot there to love.
https://youtu.be/U7QfSbNYmpQ?si=zWDcYxHnwdpz4uxI
GLOWING ALBUM REVIEW
Blog and youtube channel " Our mind on music " has given Precarious Karma a stunning review,
"It exemplifies the transformative power of music and stands as a beacon of resilience and creativity in modern art."
I'm totally grateful and honoured that my work is having such an affect on people, Full review here.....
PRECARIOUS KARMA RECEIVES NHC ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Absolutely honoured and humbled to be awarded album of the year from the NHC organisation, and a huge thanks also to all the folks on social media who gave Luminous top album of 2024 or put it on their favourite albums list.
More details here....
New release
Luminous has released a companion EP to " Hounds of Shiva " called " Organism 46b " also under the alternate alias of " Heretic Savant " , You can listen to and purchase it here...
https://luminous1.bandcamp.com/album/organism-46b
New release
Luminous has released a new EP under his alternate nome de plume " Heretic savant " called
"Hounds of Shiva " , you can listen to it and purchase here...
https://luminous1.bandcamp.com/album/hounds-of-shiva
Luminous video interview
You can watch an interview with Luminous discussing music, recording, the universe, life ,everything with the excellent NHC podcast here....
Luminous on unsung podcast
I had the very great pleasure of appearing on the rather excellent Unsung podcast to discuss one of my favourite albums, you can listen to it here.
https://www.facebook.com/unsungpod/videos/868303021840513
or
https://www.unsungpod.net/episodes/baader-meinhof-by-baader-meinhof-w/-luminous-329
Precarious Karma shortlisted for Scottish album of the year
It's a great honour to be included on this esteemed list , There will be a public vote soon .......
Five star review in Outside left magazine
" I doubt that with the advent of AI musicians, it will be very long now before it is rendered unnecessary to study and graft to learn to play every instrument in order to create an album like this, but the knowledge that Luminous overcame such personal adversity to do so lends this album a very special quality that you just can’t synthesise into an algorithm. And amen for that! "
I'm totally blown away and humbled by this stunning review in the excellent online magazine Outside left. Here's the link to read it.
https://outsideleft.com/main.php?updateID=3120
Vestibule suite
I have finally finished my classical suite, it's in five movements for various instruments and was composed sporadically over a 2-3 year period.
It's entitled "Vestibule suite " and is my attempt to document the hopes , frustrations and multitude of other emotions I go through being chronically ill, lots and lots of waiting ( hence it's title ), it was mostly composed in bed with the occasional parts written in hospital waiting rooms. I used Staffpad on an iPad pro with Apple pencil and the sounds are Spitfire, Berlin and stock libraries.
I've created a video with some artwork from my friend Bobby Deans ( whose work expresses similar ideas ) and I'm very pleased with it, some of the music is difficult , some is beautiful ( I think ) and it's been a lot of work to get it to completion .
Anyway here's the video of the whole piece , many thanks for liking, sharing, subscribing and commenting
Bobby Deans can be found here
