And so I was doing a big brainstorm for album titles in my notebook, and the word "duality" came up.
If it had sad lyrics, there would be a happy melody, or if it was a happy song, there would still be some element of anxiety or uncertainty. The name Duality first came about when I was having a conversation with my producer, Braden, and he noted that a lot of the songs on my album really didn't just have one theme or emotion. Tell me how you came up with your first album's title Duality. So I dropped out after one semester and with the support of my parents, which was really amazing and my friends were supportive and that made a huge difference, and I moved back to Toronto to kind of just start my own project. I just really wanted to start making my own music. And around that time, I had also gotten more involved with the Toronto music scene and seeing my friends back home. And I just remember sitting there week after week and thinking, I don't want to do any of these jobs.
And I ended up going to McGill in Montreal for violin, and we had this one class that basically every week we had a guest speaker and they were each kind of in a different career path that you could take after doing the program. I knew I wanted it to be in music, but I didn't know exactly what that role was going to be. What finally pulled you away from that and more toward this dreamy pop sound?Īfter high school, I felt this pressure to go to university, even though I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do. I decided to kind of just make a song to cheer myself up, and "Alone But Not Lonely" became a mantra to me that I repeated to myself until it really became true.įor a while, you were on your way to play violin in an orchestra.
We were downtown Toronto and I was just feeling really lonely and sad, just sitting in the apartment with all the cockroaches. I had a couple of roommates and they were basically never home and we had so many cockroaches. I had just moved out of my parents' house for the very first time, and got my own apartment. One of your tracks, "Alone But Not Lonely," seems to speak to the pandemic experience, because so many of us had to find different ways to connect and maintain relationships. So it's a big span of the four years with the jams kind of sandwiched in the middle. So some of the album's songs are pre-jams, and some of them are post-jams, which were influenced by everything that I learned about production and arrangement when I created those jams. And the jams kind of came about halfway through that process, so they were kind of both happening simultaneously. Luna Li: Yeah, it's been kind of an interesting trajectory with that because I've been working on this album for four years, which feels like a very long time, especially in your early twenties. How did those influence this first album? This interview has been edited for length and clarity.ĭebbie Elliott, Weekend Edition : During the pandemic, you went viral with your jams - these lovely musical interludes that you posted on social media in which you were playing all of these instruments from your bedroom. Here, she speaks with Weekend Edition about diverging from her orchestral trajectory, the duality of her identity and finding freedom in a stage persona. Now, the Korean-Canadian artist's music teeters on the edge of rock, dreampop, and classical, - and her debut album Duality, which dropped last week, sounds like a welcome from another universe. Starting with classical piano, she later progressed to violin, and her sound eventually grew to include harp, electric guitar, bass and drums. Hannah Bussiere Kim, who performs as Luna Li, has had a diverse musical career. Luna Li's debut album, Duality, bridges her identity as a classical musician and dreampop singer.
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