Can, John Cage, Brian Eno, Glenn Branca, found photos, Velvet Underground, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Fluxus, Mulatu Astatke, Hawkwind, Electralane, William Burrows, Sonic Youth, Sunn0))), Iggy & the Stooges, Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart, John Cale, Devo, Leonard Cohen, Lydia Lunch, Throbbing Gristle, Kim Gordon, drawing, J.D. Sallinger, Manchester, Roxy Music, The Futurists, Billy Childish, The Slits, Nick Drake, Kraftwerk, Delia Derbyshire, Broadcast, Mogwai, Hackney, knitting, Hunter S. Thompson, Devo, Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Liquid Liquid, Surgeon, David Lynch, Sparks, Wu Tang Clan, Hovercraft, Dead Kennedys, Nam Juin Paik, Hair Police, Meya Deren, DJ Shadow, Graham Greene, Boris, Daniel Johnston, The Boredoms, Large Number, Liaisons Dangerous, Bob Dylan, Max Tundra, OOIOO, Berlin, Arthur Russell, Stereolab, The Raincoats, Terry Gilliam, Earth, Anne Shenton, Valerie, King Crimson, Ingmar Bergman, Jeff Mills, Mouse on Mars, Wayne Shorter, Jim Jarmusch, Fad Gadget, Pram, The Fall, Lee Scratch Perry, Neil Young, Jimi Tenor, Dada, Neu!, Optimo, William Blake, The Pop Group, Miles Davis, Yoko ono, Nirvana, Leigh Bowery, Woody Allen, Dabrye, Pixies, Aphex Twin, Fridge, Dizzee Rascal, Tom Waits, Bjork, Add N to (X), Thurston Moore, Gang of Four, T.S. Elliot, Beatles, Chicken Lips, John Coltrane, Pig Bag, Audion, Arab Strap, Wire, Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Dear, Fellini, Smog, Allen Ginsberg...
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"Possibly one of the most genuinely involving noise projects I've come across recently... Each piece sounds like they've laid their hands on the instruments for the very first time and are mightily pissed off about it... Blood Moon sound something like early King Crimson if they had been twenty years later and spent most of their time undergoing experiments with Electro Convulsive Shock Therapy... Sonic colour mixing through liquidisation." Honest Music for Dishonest Times fanzine, link.
"Out of chaos, they say, comes order, and there’s something of that truth to Blood Moon. There’s also a strange sense of beauty. On one level, the music makes no sense; on another, the swirling waves of distortion and endless anticipation present something labyrinthine and attractively hypnotic. It is art as music, music as art and as brilliantly leftfield as it comes." Chris Long, BBC.co.uk
"Although there’s little point in trying to describe their racket other than to say it’s wholly unneighbourly, the overall effect created by these Manny morons is similar to Israeli outfits such as Poochlatz and Barbara, though considerably more tuneful due to Blood Moon’s compassionate (though too occasional) use of sax and piano (albeit ring-modulated to fuck)." - Julian Cope, Head Heritage .co.uk
“...the vast majority of people would probably shake their heads at this (at the very least) and baulk at its being music at all; ever since Lou Reed unleashed "Metal Machine Music" (echoes of which are definitely present here) in 1975 - and probably before - what is and isn't music has been much debated.”
“It's a journey - not an easy one at times, but somehow by the end the title of this remarkable symphony (for that's what it is, in a sense, "album" doesn't really do it justice) makes some kind of sense. A quite stunning debut.” - Cath AubergineManchester Music .co.uk review of 'The Birth of Tragedy'
"If I were to make love to mannequins dressed as lions I'd probably be listening to Blood Moon." - Zradio
"Blood Moon are one of the most exciting bands currently operating in Manchester's "post"(whatever) underworld. Calling themselves, somewhat mysteriously, Magenta Ray & Analogue they start off slow, dark and almost atonal; she's dragging distortion from the pit of hell through a bass and he's doing something similar with a sequencer; it's like some wonderfully fucked up mutant Satanic take on ambient. And then it gets louder, more distorted; she's on guitar and he's on drums, twisting through sheets of blistering discord. It seems at least part improvised but not unstructured as they crash towards their final destination; a saxophone screams like a trapped animal as the bass is trampled underfoot until the whole room seems to be vibrating." - Cath Aubergine Manchester Music .co.uk
Transcript of live radio session for EOMS on All fm Kate: "You make a lot of noise for two people." Paddy: "I was very worried for that saxophone then. Don't know if you could hear that but it was getting battered on a drum."
"Do not fear mistakes. There are none." Miles Davis
Photo by Lucy Burrows
Downloads:
Various Artists - NORAVE (Little Rock Records) Free download MP3 Compilation; 18 tracks (LIL020)
NORAVE the album contains 18 tracks of far out dance-not-dance from Chorus of Gastornis, Tayside Mental Health, Blockhead,
Gay Against You, Fox Gut Daata, The Niallist, Hudson Mohawke, Blood Moon, mcjor, AHG, 8046 Collective, MONG, Abstrakt
Bastard, Line Idle, Drowned Denko, Megaforce VCR, Sycamore Drive and EYES - with music that ranges from uptempo and bonkers-
beat all the way to abstrakt and beat-free, with a liberal slathering of post-crunk, all held together by the nagging feeling
that something just isn't right...
Various Artists - Cleaning Science Fiction (compiled by Ogromno Utegnute) Free download MP3 Compilation; 31 tracks
International compilation of noise featuring To Live And Shave in L.A., Soma, F E E T, Jah Excretion, The Adjective Noun and many others.
The Every Other Monday Show: Blood Moon live session: July 2009 - (site) Nomad Radio 35: Blood Moon live at NoRave, Glasgow, April 2009 -
(site) - (listen) ICA The Experiment podcast: Feature on Blood Moon: October 2008 -
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(listen) Nomad Radio 19: Blood Moon DJ set: March 2008 -
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(listen) The Every Other Monday Show: Blood Moon live session: February 2008 - (site) Zradio Show 190: January 2008 -
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Releases:
Blood Moon and Janx: The Gathering Split EP (Womb Recordings) CDr Album
1. Blood Moon - Beam
2. Blood Moon - Current
3. Blood Moon - Nothingness
4. Blood Moon - Scream
5. Janx: The Gathering - I Spread the Spores
£3.00 plus postage (free to UK)
Tayside Mental Health and Blood Moon - Mental Side of the Moon (Frequent Sea Records) CD Album
1. Side One
2. Side Two
Available from Frequent Sea Records . (Cost varies depending on postage, from $7 - $10 USD) Please support this amazing DIY label!
Blood Moon - The Birth of Tragedy (Womb Recordings) CD Album 68'05'' (womb001)
1. Weakened by Nostalgia
2. Buried Alive
3. Distant Constellation
4. Return to the Wilderness
5. Speech in a Dead Language
6. The Sword Swallower
Blood Moon - Live at Galvanised Festival (Womb Recordings) CDR Album 32'49'' (womb003)
1. Crack Knuckles
2. untitled
3. untitled
4. 4'33'' (excerpt)
5. Death of a Sociopath
6. Haemorage
7. The Sword Swallower All tracks recorded live at Galvanised Festival, Cafe Oto, Dalston, London: 7th October 2008
***SOLD OUT***
Various Artists - Womb: 25th October 2008 (Womb Recordings) CDR Compilation 19'25''(womb002)
1. Wings & Claws - 03 2-2-21-7-08
2. Pnak - Grapple with the Mechanics
3. G. Fisher - Nervous System 3
4. Blood moon - Crack Knuckles
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
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Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
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