AP Track Review
Lukas Ionesco is a multi genre artist from Paris. As actor, composer, singer and guitarist and model. This all makes for a long string on a business card. The Official Video for Japanese Cowboy as directed by Zack Spiger sees Ionesco quite feral (literally) stalking Japanese streets and trains like a primordial version of himself finally making his way to the rural countryside, naked, fierce and free. There is more going on too, all shot in a sort of 16 mm beautifully jagged way. Ionesco is totally watchable. His facial expressions alone warrant a wide eyed gaze even as he smokes a cig and seemingly gets very loving with a fan (not as a person fan mind you but an electric fan), and hangs with comely friends in the city. Ionesco's debut album "Magic Stone" was produced with his girlfriend and co-collaborator Clara Benador in his parents house in a more rough and DIY way and offers new reflections compared to his earlier musical works. I look forward to delving into it.
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Robb Donker
Sidenotes: Likely not an original thought but Lukas sure reminds me of a young Michael Beck (you know Swan from Walter Hill's 1979 cult classic The Warriors.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Lukas Ionesco is a French multi-cap artist from Paris : actor, composer, singer, guitariste.
He is the son of Eva Ionesco, sulfurous Parisian family, and son in law of French poet Simon Liberati.
He played in the Larry Clark movie "The Smell of Us".
After a first EP recorded in NYC, Lukas changes is creation process and decided to produce his new album with his girlfriend Clara Benador in his parents' house far away from the light of the cities.
The music of "Magic Stone" is more rough and DIY.
This first album is an echo of precious magical stone, a talisman protecting himself.
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