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Lunatic Soul
Lunatic Soul is a progressive rock side-project founded by Riverside vocalist and bass guitarist Mariusz Duda in 2008. Originally conceived to allow him to explore genres outside of rock, the project was described by Duda in 2014 as progressive, ambient, oriental, and electronic. Lunatic Soul has released eight albums to date. The most recent, The World Under Unsun, came out in October 2025.
Lunatic Soul's debut, self-titled studio album was released on 13 October 2008 on Kscope. Guest appearances included then-UnSun and Indukti drummer Wawrzyniec Dramowicz as well as Riverside keyboardist Michał Łapaj.
The record reached No. 23 on the Polish OLiS chart and was voted Best Album of the Year by listeners of the Noc Muzycznych Pejzaży radio program.
Reviewers described it as "forty-five minutes of moving, meticulously thought-out music", noting the oriental-ambient sound of the project as distinctive from the music of Duda's primary band, Riverside. The German magazine Eclipsed rated the album 9/10 and described the music as "trip rock".
The projects's second album, titled Lunatic Soul II, was released on 25 October 2010 by both Mystic Production and Kscope, debuting at No. 13 on the OLiS chart in Poland. Reviewers compared the music to such artists as Dead Can Dance and Peter Gabriel.
Music critics pointed out that Lunatic Soul II is more musically accessible than the debut and includes more melodic content. They placed emphasis on Duda's continued experimentation, expressed through the use of unconventional instruments, such as the Chinese guzheng, tubular bells, the cajón, and the kalimba.
On 17 October 2011, Kscope released Lunatic Soul's third album, titled Impressions, the project's first entirely instrumental record. The tracks were created during the recording sessions for the previous two albums and were initially intended to be an addition to the reissues of those albums. Duda ultimately felt that the compositions were strong enough to stand as a separate record.
When asked why the album was instrumental, Duda explained: "I grew up mainly on instrumental music. I had to have such an album in my discography". The tracks on Impressions include a range of non-musical sounds, such as an electrocardiogram, falling water droplets, and steel being forged. Duda's voice is rarely present and functions more as an additional instrument than as traditional vocals.
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Lunatic Soul
Lunatic Soul is a progressive rock side-project founded by Riverside vocalist and bass guitarist Mariusz Duda in 2008. Originally conceived to allow him to explore genres outside of rock, the project was described by Duda in 2014 as progressive, ambient, oriental, and electronic. Lunatic Soul has released eight albums to date. The most recent, The World Under Unsun, came out in October 2025.
Lunatic Soul's debut, self-titled studio album was released on 13 October 2008 on Kscope. Guest appearances included then-UnSun and Indukti drummer Wawrzyniec Dramowicz as well as Riverside keyboardist Michał Łapaj.
The record reached No. 23 on the Polish OLiS chart and was voted Best Album of the Year by listeners of the Noc Muzycznych Pejzaży radio program.
Reviewers described it as "forty-five minutes of moving, meticulously thought-out music", noting the oriental-ambient sound of the project as distinctive from the music of Duda's primary band, Riverside. The German magazine Eclipsed rated the album 9/10 and described the music as "trip rock".
The projects's second album, titled Lunatic Soul II, was released on 25 October 2010 by both Mystic Production and Kscope, debuting at No. 13 on the OLiS chart in Poland. Reviewers compared the music to such artists as Dead Can Dance and Peter Gabriel.
Music critics pointed out that Lunatic Soul II is more musically accessible than the debut and includes more melodic content. They placed emphasis on Duda's continued experimentation, expressed through the use of unconventional instruments, such as the Chinese guzheng, tubular bells, the cajón, and the kalimba.
On 17 October 2011, Kscope released Lunatic Soul's third album, titled Impressions, the project's first entirely instrumental record. The tracks were created during the recording sessions for the previous two albums and were initially intended to be an addition to the reissues of those albums. Duda ultimately felt that the compositions were strong enough to stand as a separate record.
When asked why the album was instrumental, Duda explained: "I grew up mainly on instrumental music. I had to have such an album in my discography". The tracks on Impressions include a range of non-musical sounds, such as an electrocardiogram, falling water droplets, and steel being forged. Duda's voice is rarely present and functions more as an additional instrument than as traditional vocals.