January 18, 2010

Kaza Metal Night!

Hey guys, this Saturday Jan. 23rd, we'll be at Muralhas Underground in Newark NJ - a new venue for us! We're playing with industrial metal band, Methodical, and thrash metal band, Order of Destruction.

You won't want to miss this show as we'll be playing our very first original song. We got a great response about it at our show last weekend. So come on out and bring all your friends. Weather should be nice so no excuses. Haha!

[18 to enter, 21 to drink]

January 2, 2010

Radio Interview

On Wednesday, January 6, 2010, Tara of Luminis will be interviewed on Nightmares with Malice Cooper's radio show in Canada. The interview will take place around 7pm EST and will be live in Canada. After the show, you'll be able to hear it as a podcast here: Malice Cooper Podcast

December 26, 2009

New Year, New Shows, New Songs

In a few days, 2009 will be over and 2010 will be upon us. We have some upcoming shows to announce...

1. January 9 @ 10pm - we will be performing at the 'Dead of Winter Carnival' for the Gothic Art and Music Festival in Phillipsburg, NJ at the Riverview Arts Center. [see the flyer below for $2 off admission].

2. January 23 @ 10pm - we will be playing at Muralhas Underground in Newark, NJ with Methodical in association with Kaza Rock Productions.

We'll be booking more shows as the year proceeds.

In addition to these exciting shows, we're happy to announce that we will debut our very first original song at the January 9 show!!! So for those of you who have enjoyed our tributes to the wonderful bands such as Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Epica and others, and have wondered what our 'own' sound would be like, here's your chance to get a sneak peak at the Original Luminis!

In the meantime, we have started recording for a 4 song demo which we will post to MySpace and other sites once it's finished. Right now the drums are done. Look out for the release of that in the early part of 2010!!!

See you at the shows!

Tara, Izzy, Ant, Steve

October 23, 2009

Tara to give solo performance

Hey friends. Tomorrow (Saturday, October 24th) from 4-5pm, Tara will be giving a solo performance at the First Church of Hanover in East Hanover, NJ for a fundraiser event. Stop by if you're in the area.

Tara will be performing some selections from Within Temptation, Epica, Nightwish, Tarja, Evanescence, Leaves' Eyes, and more.

October 19, 2009

Our next show at The Cup!

Our next show is this Saturday, October 24th, at The Cup in Linden, NJ. We're calling it our "Semi-Halloween Show"!!!

October 13, 2009

Show Announcements & Our Photo Shoot

We are really excited to announce two upcoming show dates:

Friday, October 16 - The Clash Bar (Clifton, NJ)
Saturday, October 24 - The Cup (Linden, NJ)

We hope you'll come out to support local music and see us in action. Both nights, we'll be performing with some great bands and we have added a couple new songs to our set list, which we think you'll enjoy. A guest singer will accompany us with one of these new songs. We're really looking forward to having him join us!

...And...if you haven't seen us perform our rendition of "The Phantom of the Opera" yet, now is the perfect time! With Halloween just around the corner, this is our way of saying "Happy Halloween!!"

This past weekend, we did a photo shoot and have uploaded the awesome pics to our MySpace and Facebook sites. Please check them out and let us know what you think by leaving comments!

Hope to see you all at a show!

August 20, 2009

News and Upcoming Show Announcements

We have some news and show dates to announce! Luminis has reformed after a sudden disruption of its lineup. Although, this was done so quickly, you may not even have noticed. But check out our newest members, Steve on drums, and Anthony on bass guitar at our website: www.luminisband.com or our MySpace page: www.myspace.com/luminis.

We have also uploaded 2 new song demos, which you can find on our MySpace page as well: 'Nemo' - a Nightwish cover and 'Never Enough' - an Epica cover.

While we were in the process of reforming the full band, Islam and I [Tara] continued to work on the 'softer side' of Luminis, adding songs to our acoustic setlist. We played one acoustic show this summer at The Cup in Linden, in which we received many good compliments! We'll be playing one more acoustic show tonight and then we'll be gearing up for a string of full-band shows starting August 28th. This will be our first show as a whole band with the new lineup.

We hope you can make it out to one or some of these shows. We've added some songs you'll love and will rock harder than ever before!

Till then -
Thanks for reading :)

May 24, 2009

Axis Lounge show

Our show at Axis Lounge this past Friday night went smoothly. It was our first time using programming for keys and synths and it worked out very well. We really enjoyed playing this show with the other great bands (Prime Prophecy, Powervalve, & Bleed the Fifth).

We’d like to thank everyone who came out for this show and Axis Lounge for having us. Hope to be back again soon!

Our next show is this coming Friday, May 29th at The Cup in Linden, supporting Mr. Shickadance. Hope to see you there!

<3 Tara

May 18, 2009

Programming Completed – Upcoming Shows

Hello friends, the programming for our next two shows has been completed! And you will not believe how great it is until you see it/hear it!

What a process it has been. But a very enjoyable and educational one at that!

Luminis is all geared up and ready to go. Come see us this Friday, May 22nd at Axis Lounge in Carlstadt, NJ and again on Friday, May 29th at the Cup in Linden, NJ. Hope to see you and meet you there!

May 6, 2009

Recreating Epica!

Hello all, this is Tara from Luminis. We’ll be posting our ’stuff’ here for anyone interested in our adventures in the process of recreating the best femme metal bands.

Right now, we are in the process of creating keyboard/synth programming tracks for live usage. I’ve been working with my vocal coach (also producer) Perry Montauredes [perrymontauredes.com], to recreate the sounds needed for our live performances of Epica, Nightwish, Within Temptation and others. It has been so much fun and the progress is coming along so nicely. In the process, I have learned a great deal on programming with Cubase. What an amazing piece of software!

Luminis will have its next show in a couple weeks using pre-programmed keys for the very first time! It’s going to be spectacular — you won’t want to miss it!

Until next post -
Tara