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HAPPY #MOONMONDAY! NEW ALBUM!

Thanks to all you Moonies who filled out the survey from last year. Especially the "What kinds of Heavy Moon tracks do you like best?" question.

The biggest responses were "Spacey and trippy", "Relaxed and smoky", "Longer Tracks" and "Prog-rock". I tried to honour all these requests, which wasn't hard because this was the direction I wanted to go anyway. Glad we're on the same page. "More guitars" and "More synths" came in about equal so there's more of both!(?).

Sadly numbers didn't work-out for a vinyl release at this time. But that doesn't mean it's off the table.

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Heavy Moon's twelfth journey into the cosmos. Hitching a ride on the astral drift, Heavy Moon once again leaves the stratosphere in a trail of smoke. Acid guitars orbit over kosmische synths and motorik rhythms while waves of fuzz crash upon alien shores.

XII ⓬ XII ⑫ XII ⓬ XII ⑫ XII ⓬ XII ⑫ XII ⓬ XII ⑫ XII ⓬ XII ⑫ XII ⓬

YouTube comments from the Bong Druid of Weed Mountain upload of the album:

"This is damn good, and I'm listening on a cell phone. If I use speakers, I fear I may open a portal to another dimension, full of blue bunnies and giant butterflies."

"Trippy cover , but amazing music very mellow yet rhythmic at the same time it keeps moving you forward into a dreamy pleasant world 🌎"

"Nice!! Imagine tripping on shrooms with your spouse, and then making sloppy, exquisite love with this playing in the background. Oh, yum!"

"Psychedelic Masterpiece"

"...another great HEAVY MOON release"

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From Dayz of Purple and Orange:

"...a genuine trippy affair that transports you to the heady days of classic kosmische and psychedelia....it is a bona fide gem! .... and starts in the best way possible...rich washes of kosmische synths that come across like the love child off Pink Floyd circa 'Dark Side...' and Tangerine Dream. Over this lays a guitar tuned to the key of 'cosmic'...trippier guitar you will not hear. It all comes together to form something that is deeply, deeply psychedelic and supremely blissful. It is utterly beguiling, dragging you in and holding you. As it progresses it changes in infinitesimal steps....an elongated chord or an extra electronic effect.... but the overall vibe remains one of kosmische zen .... things become a tad heavier, more rooted in psychedelic prog but still retains a stellar quality. The layers seem to be deeper and denser at this point but such is the mastery of Rehlinger and such is his lightness of touch that one still remains suspended in his web of psychedelic wonderment .... more sublime kosmische synths and acid guitar interplaying with each other to weave a tapestry of such a deep psychedelic hue that you genuinely think you are listening to some long lost krautrock gem...authentic and sympathetic to both the sound and the ethos of the time .... This is a simply superb tape... that Rehlinger is a fantastic musician is a given (well, to anyone who has heard any Moonwood/previous Heavy Moon material) but the atmosphere and the sheer psychedelic nature of this particular outing is mind-blowing...quite literally! From start to finish it holds the listener in a trippy rapture that entrances and exhilarates."


From Recyclable Sounds:

"Эксперименты по скрещиванию синтезаторного спэйс-эйджа и жесткого гитарного хэви-риффажа остались, похоже, в прошлом. Последние работы Jakob Rehlinger в рамках HEAVY MOON – это преимущественно мечтательно-романтическая, красивая и даже танцевабельная гибридная музыка. В ассортименте: программированный размеренный моторик-ритм-бит, «фар-аут» эхо-гитара, ведущая несложную основную мелодическую тему, и многочисленные синт-пространственные эмбиент-текстуры – что-то между ранней немецко-краутовой «электронише-музик» и британским «пост-флойдовским» спэйс-роком – по сути разновидность «продвинутой сай-файешной» лаунж-музыки. Гипнотическо-трансовый характер альбома “Heavy Moon 12” очевиден буквально с первой же композиции (“Pink Eclipse”). Любопытно, что продолжительность композиций по мере развёртывания альбома сокращается: от 13 с половиной до без малого 6 минут (на заключительном и самом подвижном номере программы “Rockwind”).

А вообще, программа очень ровная: треки плавно возникают один из другого, и слушатель буквально скользит по мягким аудио-волнам. Никаких резких порывов, препятствий и каверз – путешествие абсолютно спокойное, расслабляющее и убаюкивающее. Особо отметить и нечего. Эдакая «терапевтическая» музыка, которую можно включить фоном, дабы оформить интим, вздремнуть, помечтать или что-то помастерить. Попробуйте…"

HEAVY MOON is the studio project of Canadian multi-instrumentalist Jakob Rehlinger. Fueled by his kosmische synths and psychedelic guitar work, Rehlinger has uses Heavy Moon as an astral bridge to take listeners to the outer reaches of space.

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