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New Luthorian bands revive sexuality in RF
Kalistanis can't escape guitars, Luthorians keep the sex alive
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
October 15, 5681


New groups arrive daily to record New Wave of RF albums in Kaliburg, constituting something of a Luthorian Invasion

Historically, Kalistan's current borders represent the farthest the Empire of Luthori ever reached in their ultimately unsuccessful attempt to plant their flag in every nation of the world. But the new Wave of RF in Kalistan has unwittingly opened the door to a new Luthorian invasion, as numerous bands from Artania have come to Kalistan in recent years to record electronic music for Kalistani pop music listeners. More than a dozen new albums will be released within the next six months from Luthorian artists, added to the already very successful Luthorian bands who are recording currently, and are on their second or third album.

"The Luthorian Music Scene, such as it is, has suffered from a genuine lack of infrastructure," said Michael Delaney, of the RF band Fredrick goes to Sulari, which has just released its debut album "Take it Easy" in Kaliburg, and has grown to be an overnight sensation based on the title track. "We wanted to make sure we got here, where someone could record our music before the scene here became, shall we say saturated." The title track of the Fredrick Goes to Sulari "Take it Easy" album has hit number 4 this week on the Radio 1 poll and the band has gone from being an unknown commodity in Kalistan to selling out 2 and 3 thousand person venues almost over night.

The RF bands from Luthori often bring either explicitly sexual lyrics, or sexual fluidity with them, making their music a bit more akin to classic Kalistani RF than the newer wave tracks. "I think the discussion of sexualized topics in RF is a lot of the, shall we say, attraction of RF," said Cathy Smith of the Luthorian band Kitten. "Luthori, I think I would describe them as more, I believe buttoned up would be a good descriptive word... they are a bit less sexually liberal than Kalistan is, and this is really an opportunity for Luthorian artists to fully express themselves and share our art with a lot of people who really really want to hear it."

Smith is not wrong: Kalistani listeners are buying specifically Luthorian albums and tickets to shows featuring Luthorian acts like crazy. "I think we have always loved music from Luthori," said Gina Rodriguez of Yoshimi who was purchasing the new album from the Luthorian band More Society. "They speak our language but their music sounds just foreign enough that it is different, and I think at least I like that difference, that flavor. They have more keyboards and fewer guitars in their bands, and I think even the ones they have are modified to sound synthesized, so it really is a lot of that sound that I think a lot of kids my age are looking for. We still listen to local acts, but this is exciting now. This is what I want."

New arrivals include the above mentioned Fredrick Goes to Sulari, who was mobbed on screen during the filming of their debut video for "Take it Easy" the footage of which was left in the video, rather than reshot; The More Society, which focuses more on romantic music and incorporates a lot of reggae and dub influences in their music; singer Keeley Zepphier, who recently debuted her song "Kids in Kalistan" on M7's afternoon pop show "Call in Live"; and singer and fashion forward musician Aaron Diamond and his band the Adamants, who blends glam and gender fluidity with RF in his music. These musicians are pictured above.

Luthorians tend to represent a more sexualized RF than the first part of the New Wave who veered away from sex starting with Addisjah. "That was a choice Kalistani musicians made, to make their music broader in terms of the topics they sang about," said Smith. "I think Luthorians who are here in the Kalistani Empire making music right now are getting the opportunity to spread our creative wings for the first time, and we want to experience what we've been missing. Drugs, fame, sexuality, androgen, whatever you want to do: it all goes to an excessive lifestyle that many of us are experiencing for the first time, and the Kalistanis we have met have been so welcoming to us, and supportive of us, and open to what we are doing. Speaking for me, I will return to Luthori some day, but for right now, I am staying put and doing this music thing."

Sales show that there is still room in the market for new acts, but Kalsitani musicians are already starting to experience the burn out. "You know, there is a point, I think, I believe I mean, where you can finally do enough cocaine," said Addisjah's lead singer Dianne Randal. "I think I'm getting close. I think its starting to affect you know, like what kind of music we are making. Staying up for 10 days, either going to the studio or going to a club or to a show... You run out of steam after a while, and no amount of coke is gonna pick you back up again: it'll just give you a heart attack. I love these new Luthorian bands, but I think for myself, I might want to do something else. Maybe get clean and write pop songs, who knows..."

For now, the Luthorians are happy to fill whatever voids the older Kalistani bands leave open. As the New Wave of RF becomes an international movement, it is likely that Kalistan will become at least the temporary home of more Luthorian musicians, and as long as Kalistanis keep spending their money to buy RF albums and clubs keep spinning the tracks, there will always be a spot in the music industry for them, and for other Kalistanis who want to launch their own music careers with more keyboards than guitars.

Here are a couple of the new Luthorian Arrivals: Fredrick Goes to Sulari, with "Take it Easy" and Keeley Zepphier, with "Kids in Kalistan". Both artists were recorded by KMI in Kaliburg. Both are heavily synthesized New Wave of RF tracks, and both are representative of the genre as done by Luthorians in Kalistan.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwqoce0Ruso]
Fredrick Goes to Sulari's "Take it Easy," a song about conscientious lovemaking

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BYKpQ_6GbM]
Keeley's "Kids in Kalistan", her ode to youth culture in the Empire of Ananto and Kalistan

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