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Good luck for this new week everybody! #staysafe ❤️Those two little beauties love their mom & dad so much, that we couldn’t resist to offer them these cute clothes.
We love you too, our little angels!
Mommy and daddy 👩🏻🤝👨🏼
📷 Eleftheria Zavalis
#LALUDoggies #Perla #Luna #MiniaturePinscher
❤️ When people send you a picture of your albums they have bought ❤️
Just received an encouraging message. Not getting rich or paying my rent thanks to those progressive/metal records, as I’ve always said: the reward is the kind words we receive from supportive fans—this music is supposed to be heard, and (if possible) appreciated. The fact that people are listening to my crap means the world to me, please keep those messages coming! Write to your favorite musicians, bands, artists etc. You have no idea how motivating this can be, especially in such times. 🙏
The music for the last song of the new LALU record is in the box as I am writing this statement.
100% complete.
I want to take the time to thanks Jelly Cardarelli and Joop Wolters for their incredible work, support, and true friendship over the years. And of course, my wife Eleftheria Zavalis without who I would have probably not been here anymore to write these lines
I met an incredible drummer and producer some years ago, going by the artist name of Jelly (Jelly Cardarelli). Jelly understood right away what I wanted to do with this album—our musical minds connect in an unprecedented way (outside of Joop, but everybody know this by now).
Jelly is not only drumming, he's also co-producing the album with me and respects my vision at 100%. I am hereby happy to announce the title of the new LALU record:
"PAINT THE SKY".
The attached art is not the album's artwork, it is a present from Joop after we finished the guitar recordings. I am speechless that he painted this as a personal gift to me—the love I receive from my brothers in arms is humbling.
The next and final recordings, and mixing sessions, are planned for April-May-June.
This record is gonna be a 'HATE IT' or 'LOVE IT' kind of experience for some of my long time fans, and followers. It is a (well, not so radical actually) departure from metal music. Being the son of two musicians from the 70's, after growing up surrounded by progressive music, I've always felt the itch to craft a true, passionately written ART ROCK record. Now I believe the time was right for me. This is who I am deep inside. I put what I felt on "paper", this album is as sincere as it gets. I couldn't force myself to do anything else right now.
This also means a change of vocalist specifically for this progressive, lighter record. I cannot wait to announce him, I've been a fan of his voice since forever, so it's a dream come true to have the chance to work together to bring those songs to a new level thanks to his unique voice, and lyrics. He is one of the most respected, and established voices in the scene. But not only. Enough talk, already saying too much!
I need some days of rest as this week been pretty intense musically, on every front. Skipped some nights (to make it short).I don't want to hurt my health so I'll take a short break while you guys continue to love each-other.
Love you, may the sun shine its light on you all, and talk soon = )
Viv
Work in progress—Busy composing original music for Roweyna, the fantasy series by Michael Rouge. Wish you all a great week-end ahead! 🎵
Vivien Lalu - Composing Roweyna (work in progress)
I'm pretty busy these days. Have a quick look at my Cubase session as I am composing original music for the Roweyna series by Michael Rouge. This is complete...Continuing to discover the Roland Fantom. I’m back on YouTube for another episode of “Ambient/Cinematic Scenes“. Until next time :))
Roland Fantom - Ambient/Cinematic Scenes: The Second Episode
Welcome back for a second episode of Ambient/Cinematic Scenes! It was AMBIENTUESDAY again yesterday—Fun day of writing atmospheric material, and noodling aro...Discovering my Fantom 7, and toying around with a bunch of Ambient/Cinematic scenes, abusing the Motional Pad, and cutoff/resonance filters.
Soundtrack composers are going to love this new Fantom! It doesn't matter if you're Vangelis, or Hans Zimmer. Roland got you covered!
Roland Fantom - Ambient/Cinematic Scenes: The soundtrack composer's best ally!
Discovering my Fantom 7, and toying around with a bunch of Ambient/Cinematic scenes, abusing the Motional Pad, and cutoff/resonance filters. Soundtrack compo...Hello my friends!
Head over to my YouTube channel right now for a special video: Roland Fantom 7 unboxing, featuring instrumental music from the new record. Filming/editing: Eleftheria Zavalis
Full video on YouTube (direct link):
youtu.be/3-hR3ilvyPw
I am so proud of my wife; she is an amazing music composer, and sound designer!
This is the final video from her university project (a re-imagining of I, Robot’ soundtrack, and SFX).
I sincerely don’t know anybody her age who could pull this off. Check it out—don’t hesitate to support her, and like her page. Also don’t hesitate to hire her for any music work of yours—she’s not just a composer, she’s also making transcriptions of music scores, lyrical vocals etc. for a living. Don’t be shy! ❤️
MSt in Musicology Thesis Project
Music composition and sound design by graduate student Eleftheria Zavalis, over a short part of I, Robot (2004 movie by Alex Proyas) ABSTRACT: From 1960 onwards,…Drums recordings, part deux—Another preview of my upcoming album; Joop Wolters on guitar as always. Hope you guys enjoy it! 😉 🤘
#workinprogression
Tracking live 🥁 for my next production (🎸 already recorded by Joop Wolters)...but who is this mysterious & monstrous drummer?
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Happy birthday, Roland! 🎹 🎂
All my albums have been recorded with Roland keyboards exclusively! There is no better way to unleash my creativity ❤️
Viv
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