MOOCH > Inbolc (featuring Jez Creek aka Modulator ESP)
from the brand new (2CD) album "The Pagan Year" (release date: February 15th, 2010)
As before, the music is spacey, progressive, rock and electronic. Covering eight tracks over two disks, the album invites the listener to travel through a pagan year, starting with the ancient festival of Imbolc, passing through two equinoxes and the summer solstice, and the pagan festivals of Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain, then finishing at the midwinter solstice, Yule.
And as before there are some stellar guests: Bridget Wishart (Hawkwind), Alex Pym (Dream Machine), Chris Gill (Band Of Rain), Cyndee Lee Rule, Jez Creek, John Sherwood and Linda Harlow. Erich Z. Schlagzeug is the drummer.
Welcome to a space-progressive rock album for a new pagan future.
Welcome to a new Earth-centred way of experiencing the year...
from the brand new album "Train Klang" (release date: September 21st, 2010)
"Train Klang" is a single 71 minute track featuring Steve Palmer on keyboards, guitar and bass ably supported by Nick Toone (monochord, gliss guitar), Dave Dilliway (audio generator) and Erich Z. Schlagzeug (drums). The music is knitted together by the eerie sounds of Dave's audio generator, reminiscent in places of Hawkwind's DikMik, which run through most of the work. Various train and railway sounds augment this foundation, evoking a strange European landscape perhaps of the early 1970's. Nick Toone's cosmic gliss guitar and monochord expand the work, and there are mood-altering inserts from a drums/bass combination, primitive organ and mellotron, and a central section of multiply echoed electric guitars. It makes for a haunting trip that will find fans amongst those enamoured of the very early Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze albums, and those into the more abstract side of Mooch: a kind of new kosmische musik.