The album’s style aims to be more empowered and more rock than ever before. It reaches into the past, present and the future to bring out an ageless and unencumbered sound, which can be described as CRIS LUNA’s sound.
CRIS LUNA, whose real name is Christopher Schoepp, was drawn to music at an early age and soon was rocked by the Anglo-Saxon Rock of the 60’s /70’s.
At the age of 12 year, CRIS joins the orchestra of his college and began playing the guitar and practicing his singing.
CRIS found himself strongly influenced by the New-Wave, Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music from the United Kingdom and the USA, which were sweeping thru Europe during the "Eighties".
His college years presented CRIS with the opportunity to form his first musical band. He did so with the help of his childhood friend, a keyboard player by the name of Mathieu Gambs. The band MFO (The Other Face of Music) was born. The group, whose style was influenced by Rock and New-Wave, routinely performed live and recorded several demos throughout the 80’s.
The band abruptly found itself in a stalemate in the early 90s with the disappearance of ... Mathieu. MFO would never recover from this tragic event. As a result, it left CRIS immensely sad, frustrated, and with an enormous sense of unfinished business.
Shortly after, CRIS made the decision to distance himself from the music scene, but not without secretly continuing to cultivate his musical creative garden
2010 marks the beginning of an intensive songwriting endeavor that will lead to CRIS’s first LP, that he will auto-produce and release in 2012. The album is called "Babylon Child”. It offers a multifaceted style ranging from Rock, Progressive Rock and Post Rock.
CRIS will have to wait until May 2014 and the release of the 2nd LP "Maëlstrohm"(produced in collaboration with Laurent Lepagneau (Ange)), before being recognized and greeted by rock critics in France and Belgium.
Indeed, this second album is a true success. This loud and “in-your-face” acoustic storm that makes-up the album, blends Punk Rock, Heavy Progressive Rock and Garage music. "Rock & Folk" magazine quickly recognizes the album as one of the best self-produced Rock album in the hexagon that year.
Today, CRIS LUNA(guitar / vocals) is surrounded on stage by Benoit Cazzulini (Ange) on drums, Florent Latarche on guitar, and Nicolas Fageot on bass. The trio will hit the road in late 2016. Catch them live to experience the rebirth of the "Phoenix" on stage.
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