Intergalactic Moonloonies Invade Mushroom Hill – a 6 volume compilation fundraiser featuring the very best in Krautrock, Ambient, Psychedelic Rock and Berlin School
AQUARIAN MOONS is a Spreaker live podcast which broadcasts every Saturday (20:00GMT, 21:00CET for Europe, 12:00PST in the US) and can best be summed up as an eclectic blend of new and old recordings from the very loose genres of Spacerock, Krautrock, Ambient, Psychedelic Rock and Berlin School – and pretty much everything in between.
Together with an always vibrant chatroom, the regular DJ, Paul Higgins, manages to cram more music in three hours than most other playlists manage in a week. Always different, always exploring both the familiar and unfamiliar equally well, with an emphasis always on quality.
It was into this background that I discovered the show on the internet just over a year ago. I was instantly hooked by the styles of music, exactly the sorts of things I liked listening to; but this station was playing stuff I had never heard before. The more I got into the show, the more intrigued I became. Paul & Anita Higgins, the brains behind the show, make a point of buying everything they play from their own pockets. Now, that's quite a rarity in this day and age, and it got me thinking. As a musician myself, I felt that I could be doing something to help them buy more music – and in doing so, to help musicians get more airplay in return.
While online chatting to Kelrod (one of the regular listeners and sometimes contributor to the show) we came up with an insane idea, after just finishing up a collaboration for a track we had made exclusively for the show – "Hawk Spirit Flies over Mushroom Hill". The idea was this – could we help the show out by coming up with a fundraiser, an album dedicated to the station with contributions from many of those getting airplay? To put icing on top of the cake – could we come up with one where contributions were themed around Paul & Anita's new residence – Mushroom Hill, or something to do with Aquarian Moons?
We decided, after talking it through with Anita, to make this a complete surprise for Paul. And floated the idea out to the regulars on the show, expecting maybe five or six replies.
And here we are, three months later, with forty-two tracks, spread over six CD-length volumes! A truly mind-blowing response, from some of the best artists in their respective fields, and most took up our offer to create something especially for this fundraiser to boot. Many of these tracks will not be found anywhere else.
I'd like to thank all of those who have contributed their time and energy to contributing and allowing all the profits to go back into Aquarian Moons. Not just the music, but also the art and graphics design (Kelrod “Kommander” Kilwalski) and the two faithful minions (Anita “The Goddess” and Sean “The FAQ Sheriff”) who both helped tremendously in tracking artists down and offering an incredible amount of moral support to see this gigantic undertaking through to completion.
I truly hope you enjoy listening to this music as much as I enjoyed compiling it!
And we all hope to see you on the chatrooms every Saturday – the website address for the show is
www.spreaker.com/show/aquarian-moons
Dave Pearson
Szekesfehervar, Hungary
7th June, 2018
released June 1, 2018
Intergalactic Moonloonies Invade Mushroom Hill is an ongoing series of compilation volumes dedicated to the “Aquarian Moons” spreaker broadcasts and contains over 70 minutes of Spacerock, Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock, Ambient and Berlin School music from some of the best artists in their respective fields. Many of the tracks on this album were written especially for this compilation and will not be heard anywhere else. BYOB, sit back, plug in and listen to the very best in alternate music available today.
1. Greg Segal - Blacklight Mushroom Bash 03:18
All instruments/song by Greg Segal. Special for this album- not on any other release!
Website:
www.gregsegal.com Bandcamp page:
gregsegal.bandcamp.com
2. Rob Gould - Fungi Amongi (on Mushroom Hill) 26:12
Written and recorded in March 2018 by Rob Gould
Rob Gould – tenori-on, keyboards, bass guitar and vocal
Maddy Gould – backing vocal
www.robgould.co.uk
3. Trancient Dreams - Twisting the Toadstool 04:53
This track was created By Trancient Dreams Martin Hall-Davis & Spira Saxe for our forthcoming Radio Sonic Album due for release on our own label Sonic Pulse later this year
trancientdreams.bandcamp.com
4. Etherfysh - Low Tide on Mushroom Hill 10:28
Composed, Performed, Mixed by Chris Christou
Lead Guitar by Dave Pearson
Mastered by Barry Gardner
www.etherfysh.com
©etherfysh/C.A. Christou. All Rights Reserved
5. Elf Troll - Neutronstar Part 1 10:46
The Troll: Sitar, Synths, Guitar, Piano, Geyer-Leyer, Efx
The Elf: Guitar, synths, Efx, Gliss
Dave Pearson: Klangentwicklung
This Version is taken from "Neutrons" and made very different to the album version. we had a lot of fun producing this crazee sounds, hope ya like it! This song won't be on any album in this version; this is for Paul's compilation only :) We love you Paul & Anita <3 <3 <3 !!! Have fun and please spread the word and make this tiny good old globe a bit better :)
www.facebook.com/PYRAAL/
planet-yraal.bandcamp.com
6. Altocirrus & Computerchemist - Morcellas Dance 14:24
Sean & Clare McCarthy: Sequencers, Drum Programming
Dave Pearson: Electric Piano, PPG, Guitar, arrangement
Collaboration # 1 between Computerchemist & Altocirrus especially for this compilation
All tracks are © and (p) by their respective writers and artists, and are used with kind permission on this compilation. Unless specified otherwise, writing credits are by the artist(s) performing the work.
All proceeds from this compilation will be going to fund the Aquarian Moons spreaker podcast.
Compiled by Dave Pearson.
Layout design by Dave Pearson.
Cover Art by Kelrod Kilwalski.
Special thanks to Sean & Anita for their help.
Dedicated to Paul Higgins, "The Electric Gypsy" and your host and DJ for Aquarian Moons. We made this entire production as a top secret project in three months and boy was he surprised when we presented it to him!
www.spreaker.com/show/aquarian-moons
aquarianmoons.bandcamp.com
