MARIA SOMERVILLE - Luster sep13 compiling genre-defying tracks released between

compiling genre-defying tracks released between 1977 and 1999 to explore the intersection of Japanese ambient and pop music

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it's a sound that connects us all with our history

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MARIA SOMERVILLE - Luster sep13 compiling genre-defying tracks released betweenCD By the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown up amongst the wild, mountainous terrain of Galways rural west coast, she later relocated to Dublin, where she patiently developed an atmospheric dream pop signature inspired by the landscape of her youth a spellbinding soundworld of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal