Moon Hooch FREE LIVESTREAM @ Asheville Music Hall 2-13-2020
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- I‘m realizing more and more every day that you can make anything happen for yourself if you really want to,” says Moon Hooch horn player Mike Wilbur. “You can change your existence by just going out and doing it, by taking simple actions every day.”
If any band is a poster child for turning the power of positive thoughts and intention into reality, it’s the explosive horn-and-percussion trio Moon Hooch. In just a few short years, the group-Wilbur, fellow horn player Wenzl McGowen, and drummer James Muschler-has gone from playing on New York City subway platforms to touring with the likes of Beats Antique, They Might Be Giants, and Lotus, as well as selling out their own headline shows in major venues around the country. On ‘Red Sky,’ their third and most adventurous album to date, the band uses everything they’ve learned from their whirlwind journey to push their sound to new heights, bringing together the raw, transcendent energy of their live performances and the sleek sophistication of their studio work into a singular, intoxicating brew that blends elements of virtuosic jazz, groovy funk, and pulse-pounding electronic dance music.
“I think ‘Red Sky’ is more focused than any of our past albums,” reflects McGowen. “We practice meditation and yoga, and I think that we’re more evolved as people than we’ve ever been right now. That evolution expresses itself as focus, and through focus comes our energy.”
It was two years ago that the band released ‘This Is Cave Music,’ an exhilarating thrill ride that earned rave reviews from critics and fans alike. NPR hailed it as “unhinged” and “irresistible,” praising each musician’s “remarkable abilities” and naming their Tiny Desk Concert one of the best in the prestigious series’ history. The album followed their 2013 debut, which had Relix swooning for their “deep bass lines, catchy melodies and pounding rhythms,” while the Wall Street Journal celebrated their “electronic house music mixed with brawny saxophone riffs.” Though the band-whose members initially met as students at the New School-turned heads in the music industry as relative unknowns with a charismatic, unconventional sound (they play with unique tonguing techniques and utilize found objects like traffic cones attached to the bells of their horns to manipulate tone, for instance), they were already a familiar and beloved sight to straphangers in New York, who would react with such joy and fervor to their impromptu subway platform sets that the NYPD had to ban them from locations that couldn’t handle the crowds. NY Mag once referred to their sound as “Jay Gatsby on ecstasy,” while the NY Post fell for their “catchy melodic hooks and funky rhythms,” saying they had “the power to make you secretly wish that the short [subway] wait becomes an indefinite delay.”
paris_monster
Beat-driven. Employing heavy elements of funk and soul, paris_monster closes the gaps between synth-pop & garage; between modern detail and old-school grit. Solid earth. Soaring soundscapes. A mass of noise. Volatility. Vocal singularity.
The Deli NYC calls paris_monster “a precise, complex and sophisticated mechanism” with “a monstrous instrumental technique”, delivering a sound that “could be the new face of American roots rock”.
In fall of 2017 paris_monster began recording their first full-length LP, set to be released in 2018. The album will solidify their dirty, glitchy, lyric-centered, groove-based sound, and will be a milepost in their search for a focused and flexible musical approach. The elements of funk and soul join with lyrical themes of bygone eras in rural settings, characters lost, and mortality confronted. Love achieved, and denied. Americana. Themes in stark contrast to the pounding grooves and electronic mayhem, creating depths and dimensions that could have been otherwise achieved only by dropping a modular synth in the corn fields of central New York or the woods of Connecticut. And maybe that’s exactly what happened.
Lesley Keller of Pancakes & Whiskey said, “Each time I see them perform I’m dumbfounded at just how great they are”. paris_monster’s live show is something to behold. The challenge when seeing them live is getting past the fact that there are only two people creating all that sound. Two people. A drum set. A bass. A keyboard. A eurorack modular synth. One microphone. And all that sound. Beyond this visual impossibility is a careful and deliberate balance of sounds, colors, and textures. Melodies to serve a story. Chaos to destroy preciousness. The Deli NYC observed, “infallible superior forces: as we all know now, ‘with great power comes great responsibilities,’ and the duo never abuses of it - that’s what good musicianship is.”
1:51 - Nonphysical
6:12 - Keep It Moving
11:28 - Something Else
15:51 - Milk & Waffles
18:52 - Bronst
21:01 - Contra
24:43 - Alien Invasion
28:24 - Techno Section
34:46 - St. Louis
39:58 - Growing Up
43:03 - Light It Up
47:10 - Tubes
51:40 - They're Already Here
56:08 - EWI
1:01:17 - Health Bar
1:04:45 - Old Frenchman
1:09:30 - Candlelight
1:14:08 - Today's the Day (good shit)
1:17:28 - Need Your Love
1:20:18 - Red Sky
1:24:20 - This is Water
1:28:08 - pretend encore
1:29:04 - the rest of This is Water
1:30:21 - improv
1:33:12 - #9 intro
1:35:06 - Number 9
Quinn Kiser 101:17 is health bar, unreleased so far but they’ve been playing it on this tour
@@liamisafireplace wicked, how did you find that out?
Quinn Kiser moon hooch did an in studio on my family’s radio show, and played this song. That episode is here, and the in studio is just a little ways in sparetherock.com/wordpress/2020-02-16-playlist-stream/
Thanks for that Quinn
Cool
I discovered these guys only a few weeks ago but have been obsessed ever since, amazing talent
I found them years ago and have been obsessed ever since
Just wait until you see them live!!
@@chrisperren5048 seen em 2014 and 2015 :)
i spose im probably one of the few lucky ones to see them live in 2020
I just discovered them 2 days ago. Looked and found out they were in my town 4 days ago 😥
Great work.
I didn’t know it was Wenzl on #4 Solo. Hot.
Same haha!
Def one of the bands I wanna see live after all this covid mess!! Freestyle woohooo! Be safe, be well, be musical (; thx Iam AVL!
I listen as I paint.
I tortured a sax for twenty years, I might just have been able to jam with these guys.
1:01:18
For real. What a track. One of the better ones they've put out in a while. All of their recent stuff is great, but this is a gem.
It's a masterpiece:) I hope people get it one day !
I really like the electric voice of the girl singing Contra.
Pretty sure that's Elena Shirin.
1:14:09
Badass tune
dope !!!
these guys are fucking incredible. so unique.so much talent
27:25 alternate ending to Alien Invasion
38:41 extra vocals on St Louis
47:10 Tubes Intro
Anyone here from nelsonville music festival? 2015
30:21 #4 Solo
Wenzlの新しい曲かっこよき。
EA SPORTS ITS INA GAME
E A SPORTS RESORT. PLAY DELICIOUS
???
EA SPORTS. ITS ALL THE SAME
Bass Sax hits way too different at 1:01
It reminds me of that one collab they had with TMZ
6:13
Interesting to see and hear instruments that are rarely seen…. I found the ‘music’ to be EXTREMELY repetitive and, frankly, boring after the first 30 minutes!
This type of longform is made for live in-person experience
The repetition only works when you’re there. Their actual studio recordings aren’t as much like that.
I only watch/listen to their live recordings. Their studio versions are too simple to me. I discovered them on tiny desk and love their energy and enthusiasm when performing live. I listen to them at least 4 hours/day lol. Am just obsessed with them haha
I found your comment EXTREMELY boring, so there's that. Music is repetition, and these guys do music.
1:25:17
1:09:30