Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, The soft boys, XTC, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Kevin Ayres, Bevis Frond, Half man half biscuit, Cracker, Love, Captain Beefheart, Marc Bolan, The bonzo dog do dah band, Television personalities, Ivor Cutler, Monty python, Captain sensible, Spike Milligan, Ted Hughes, The monkees, The Incredible String Band, The small faces, The Divine Comedy, insects, crows, Roy Harper, The Byrds, Julian Cope, Spike Milligan, Rolf Harris, ABBA, Wine, hills and the Sea....
Sounds Like
Like all of the above, mixed in a cake and filtered through me and myself several times.......
Reefus Moons is a one-man band/ singer-songwriter with a band from the Ghost-infested, apathy-driven, gothic village-that-thinks-it’s-a-City of York in England who inhabits a strange world of creatures, some human some half-human, insects, birds and surreal landscapes. (Actually the same world we all live in, just looked at from a different angle). A very English whimsical eccentric in a similar vein to Syd Barrett and Robyn Hitchcock. Having started life on Acid Tapes in the 80’s with albums such as ‘The art of slow travelling’, ‘Moondust’ and ‘World in a droplet’. He later went on to create the rare and hard to find LP: ‘Reach for the Sundial and kiss for the hits’ on his own label, Insect Eye Records followed by ‘The Word raven’, an album held in such high esteem by the radio broadcaster Mark Radcliffe he had to stand on a chair.
Two solo CD’s followed: ‘Uptight Sound From The Message Tree’ (1993) and ‘Roar’ (1995) including songs such as: ‘Mystic Man’, ‘Acid House Sergeant’, ‘The Skyscraper Song’, ‘Solar Face’ and ‘I Like Myself and I Want To Fly’.
The next venture was a collaboration with the Suicidal Flowers and members of Gods Little Monkeys and Mostly Autumn with the CD ‘Marmalade Sun’ (2000) on Delerium Records recreating older classics such as ‘Love Bomb’ and ‘Groovin With The Vicar’ and new ones such as ‘Trojan Horses’ and ‘Dinosaurs Toe’.
Reefus Moons would like to point out he is an admirer of Crows, Salvador Dali, tea, Marmite and old VW Campervans etc..............................................................................................................
The entire back catalogue is now available on CD and MP3 including the new retrospective compilation of the 'Acid Tape years and other oddities:' Sing Damp Songs with a Pirate'.....
These are they and you can get them all cheaply if you like from: WWW.REEFUSMOONS.COM
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************************************************************** Reefus Moons is currently making a new solo acoustic album called 'The Ghost in the Glass'.
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‘Reefus Moons specialises in delivering poignant visions of contemporary life filtered through distorted gossamer veils of paranormal pictures.’ Phil McMullen, ‘Ptolemaic Terrascope’ magazine.
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‘A potent blend of poignancy and quintessentially English surrealism, coming from a severely undervalued pen. York's finest export.’ Simon Lewis. Terrascope Online.
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‘I have no idea what this man is going on about….’ Matt Seymour, Radio York.
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‘I can’t praise this record highly enough so I’ll have to stand on a chair’ Marc Radcliffe. Radio One.
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‘Reefus has put out another set of quality, classic Reefus Moons material. How can you not like this stuff, so happy and uplifting and cheerful!' Scott Heller. Lowcut Magazine. Denmark.
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‘He writes highly enjoyably hooky hallucinatory whimsical pop songs; the only mystery to me is why he's not much better known.' George Parsons. Dream Magazine no.8. California.
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Heartily recommended if there is a corner of your mind that is forever England.' Phil McMullen - 'Ptolemaic Terrascope' Magazine.
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‘Gives us a long dream an hour with an incredible sequence of memorable topics.' Enrico Ramunni. Rockerilla Magazine. Italy. 8/10. Translated by Babelfish.
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'Waiting for my Albatross'. 2006. (On CDbaby too, just click on it)
Greetings My Space Friend. Hope all is well. Just posted a song from my new release Photon Shift on my player. Just in time for your psychedelic party ! Really diggin your sounds here.
actually..found you on a live 365 station called "turn me on dead man"..oddly enough, played right after a robyn hitchcock tune. and, as they say, i was hooked.
Hi Reefus, Hope all is fine with you. You were right to be jealous :) Had a super time despite the schizo weather. Saw hundreds of Gannets, magnificent birds. Also saw my first Raven!!! And one evening two badgers visited my garden, awesome! Now I have to sort out about a thousand pictures (sigh), here is one of them, a little preview :) Cheers, Jenny
- I really enjoyed listening and am looking forward to picking up some of your albums - cheers
Have a groovy weekend!
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