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 September 15, 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. The Sirensound - Luna Sea (Lunatic Mix) 10:17
Written and played by M.Steinbacher.
Michael played Bass,Flute,Keyboards and some Percussion.
ALL PUBLISHING RIGHTS TO THE AUTHOR
This is a special Aquarian Loonies mix!
2. Jumble Hole Clough - Fairey Swordfish 05:25
Written by Colin Robinson, recorded in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England during December 2017 and March 2018.
All instruments and vocals by Colin Robinson
Lyrics: Nick-nack Skagerrak, Fairey Swordfish
jumbleholeclough.bandcamp.com
3. What's Next?! - Mushroom People 08:08
Kevin Urso : Lead guitar and vocals
Robert Franke : Bass
Kurt Vincent (RIP) : Drums
Recorded at What’s Next?! Studios in 2006
Remastered by Dave Pearson 2018
4. Gert Emmens - Outlands 13:11
Composed and played by Gert Emmens
Outlands is more or less connected to the album Outland(2014). Outlands was not released on the album, but composed exclusively for the concert in October 2014 at the E-live festival in Oirschot, NL. After the concert, I made a studio version of the track. No one has ever heard this studio version until now.
www.gertemmens.com
5. Kommander Kilwalski - Creature from the Shroom Lagoon 06:05
Kelrod Kilwalski: Church Organ- Treated Metal Lead- Mellotron- Weird Unstable Guitars- Air Raid Sirens- DigiTech Wailing & Divebombing Pedals- Original Manufactured Textures, Algorithms, Continuous Loops, VIA/MDRs & ATRAC3 Intelligent Bit Reallocation Algorithm + Wide Bit Stream Sampling Rate Converters- Drums & Excessive BrainCheese…
NOTE: No Computer Programming was used in this Recording...
6. Altocirrus - Road Trip (The Gypsy Mix) 25:58
All synths sequencing and programming by Sean and Clare McCarthy of Altocirrus.
www.facebook.com/altocirrus1/
altocirrus.bandcamp.com
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
