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Luna is an American rock band formed in 1991 by singer and guitarist Dean Wareham after the breakup of Galaxie 500.Described by Rolling Stone as "the best band you’ve never heard of," Luna combine intricate guitar work, traditional rock rhythms, and poetic lyrics.
Sandman's art and photographs were showcased on the official Morphine website and later featured in a DVD released with the Sandbox box set. Colley, Treat Her Right and Morphine drummer Billy Conway , and singer Laurie Sargent would later adopt the Twinemen moniker for their own band as an homage to Sandman.
Lunapark is the debut album by the American band Luna. [1] [2] It was released in 1992 on Elektra Records. It was the first musical outing of Dean Wareham since the disbanding of Galaxie 500. Luna did not add guitarist Sean Eden to the lineup until 1993's Slide EP.
Sandman died of a heart attack while onstage with Morphine in Italy in 1999. In 2004, Sandbox: The Mark Sandman Box Set was released. The 2-CD/1-DVD compilation was culled from Sandman's personal archive. It included several Treat Her Right songs, although for some unknown reason, Jim Fitting's name did not appear in the credits.
Dean & Britta is a musical duo consisting of Wareham and Britta Phillips, former Luna bassist. After Luna broke up in 2005, the pair spent the following year working on film scores, including one for Noah Baumbach's movie The Squid and the Whale, and promoting the documentary film of Luna's farewell tour Tell Me Do You Miss Me.
Morphine's instrumentation was unusual for a rock band: Sandman's primary instrument was a two-string bass guitar (with the strings usually tuned to a 5th or octave interval) played with a slide; however, on the group's records he added touches of guitar, piano, electronic organ, and other self-invented guitar instruments such as the tritar ...
It contains 31 mostly previously unreleased songs [2] recorded by Sandman and his various bands and side projects: Sandman, Treat Her Right, Hipnosonics, Pale Brothers, Supergroup, Candy Bar, Treat Her Orange, and Morphine. None of the tracks on the two CDs are credited to a particular band.
Hi-N-Dry was a Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA-based independent record label and recording studio. Founded by Morphine singer and bassist Mark Sandman, the studio and label became managed by former Morphine bandmates Dana Colley and Billy Conway along with Laurie Sargent and Andrew Mazzone (now deceased).