For one year, musician Rhoneil Eurchuk immersed herself in tandem with the Luna cycle. Eurchuk’s goal was simple — write one song every cycle (about 29 days).
Starting around the summer solstice in June 2015, at each new moon Eurchuk would go out and record sound and visuals. Throughout that month she would then guide them into a song at her home and studio in Winlaw, north of Nelson.
As Eurchuk explains, the movement of nature surrounding us is a constant yet we generally live separate to it in our daily movements.
“Prior to this project I had been living in a way that was quite disconnected from nature and my body and I got quite ill,” Eurchuk says. “This wasn’t just a creative process but a healing process reconnecting to a pace of working and living that was actually good for my body and made sense for me as a biological creature.”
The result was the 12-track album Nature Cosmos. While Eurchuk says she enjoys fun styles of music like pop, her work is more ethereal and has been described as contemporary medicine songs.
“I see music as being healing on a cellular level, a way to access parts of your brain you can’t access through talking,” Eurchuk says.
Eurchuk will present this album at Monashee Spirits Craft Distillery for Revelstoke’s upcoming LUNA Art Festival. It will be a multi-media experience with a projectionist showing video loops of Kootenay landscapes, captured by nature cinematographer Jason Mannings, which correlate with each song and season.
Expect lyrics with tingling harmonies and skillful compositions of melody and beat telling the story of birth, growth, decay, death, and resurrection. An obvious fan of anything Luna related, Eurchuk says the LUNA Art Festival is a great event for the local community and a nice antidote to capitalism.
“I feel like people are really rushed and focused on making money and everything is usually done for quite practical reasons,” she says. “It can be nice to get the perspective of someone that has stepped out of that world and into one of ideas and inspiration and taking the time to distill something.”
Catch Nature//Cosmos by Rhoneil Eurchuk and Jason Mannings at Monashee Spirits Craft Distillery on Sept. 30 as part of the Revelstoke LUNA Art Festival’s opening night. Music at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., and 9 p.m. LUNA Art festival runs from Sept. 30–Oct. 7.
This article first appeared in September print edition of Revelstoke Mountaineer Magazine.
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