Mother nature - Tortoise - Gustav Mahler - Sigur Ros - Philipp Glass - Leonard Cohen - Tori Amos - Kate Bush - Moondog - Björk - Goldfrapp - Pierre Schaeffer - Múm - King Crimson - The Beatles - Tom Waits - Portishead - The Notwist - Joe Jackson - Claude Debussy - dogs, cats & life!
Patty Moon are beguiling and irritating sounds full of profundity, sometimes sad, sometimes spiced with a bit of irony and of perfection. Patty Moon's style is spontaneously associated with established artists from Iceland, Chicago or London. But the sound cosmos of Patty Moon has deep rural roots. For years the band haslived and worked in a small village near the Kaiserstuhl in the southwest of Germany.Patty Moon are sophisticated sounds created during endless night sessions by puzzling noises, rhythms and loops.
It is mainly the voice of Patty which adds colour and magic to the songs. Her voice is warm and of melancholic fragility and she s enthralling and enchanting from the very first note. The sound fanatics around Tobias Schwab tirelessly work on the master pieces, until musical density and lyrical intensity match to represent the perfect Patty Moon song. Especially Daniel Hansmann's sometimes thrilling and hypnotic beats display the perfect background. Patty Moon s lyrics are as intensive as the music. They content sensitive themes like security, transience and moments caught in songs, always on search for truth. The suitable musical background is often provided by a band plus violoncello and sometimes even by a complete orchestra. If you like the eccentricity of Björk s voice, if Portishead and Goldfrapp are among your favourites and if you don't recoil from the strange sound of Tom Waits and nevertheless are searching for something very unique, then Patty Moon and their current CD Clouds inside are a worthwhile challenge for you. Who will listen to the album will experience a band in constant search for the perfect song and a new sound. Driven by this intention, Patty Moon will always make music that fits no ordinary pigeon hole.
