Moon Duo Indierock | Alternative 11 Items

LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (Sacred Bones)

Stars Are The Light

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stars Are the Light, the luminous seventh album by the American psych explorers Moon Duo, marks a progression into significantly new territory. From a preoccupation with the transcendental and occult that informed Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada's guitar-driven psych rock, and reached its apotheosis in the acclaimed Occult Architecture diptych, Stars Are the Light sees the band synthesize the abstract and metaphysical with the embodied and terrestrial.ÿ Branching out from Occult Architecture Vol. 2, the album has a sonic physicality that is at once propulsive and undulating; it puts dance at the heart of an expansive nexus that connects the body to the stars. Taking disco as its groove-oriented departure point, Stars Are the Light shimmers with elements of '70s funk and '90s rave. Johnson's signature guitar sound is at its most languid and refined, while Yamada's synths and oneiric vocals are foregrounded to create a spacious percussiveness that invites the body to move with its mesmeric rhythms. With Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, Spectrum) at the mixing desk in Portugal's Serra de Sintra, the area's lush landscape and powerful lunar energies exerted a strong influence on the vibe and sonic texture of the album.

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Occult Architecture Volume 2 Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Sacred Bones)

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Offering a cosmic glimpse into the hidden patterning embedded in everything, Occult Architecture reflects the harmonious duality of these light and dark energies through the Chinese theory of Yin and Yang. Following the Yin (feminine, darkness, night, earth) represented on Occult Architecture Vol. 1, Vol. 2 presents the Yang. Yang means "the bright side of the hill" and is associated with the male, sun, light and the spirit of heaven, and as such Vol. 2 explores the light and airy elements of Moon Duo's complex psyche. "In production we referred to Vol. 1 as the fuzz dungeon, and Vol. 2 as the crystal palace," guitarist Ripley Johnson explains. "The darkness of Vol. 1 gave birth to the light of Vol. 2. We had to have both elements in order to complete the cycle. We're releasing them separately to allow them their own space, and to ensure clarity of vision. To that end we also mixed Vol. 2 separately, in the height of Portland summer, focusing on its sonic qualities of lightness, air, and sun. Listeners can ultimately use the two volumes individually or together, depending on circumstance or the desired effect."

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Circles Green Vinyl Edition

LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Souterrain Transmissions)

25,99 €*

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Very excited to present a limited repress of the first two albums by Moon DUO. The critically acclaimed debut album Mazes (2011) and follow up Circles (2012) by the psychedelic rock band founded by Wooden Shjips’ Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada are finally back in print on limited edition Colored Vinyl.

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (The Reverberation Appreciation)

Live At Levitation

27,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Escape: Expanded Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Sacred Bones)

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Reissue of the original album in its entirety, plus three additional rare tracks taken from Moon Duo's wild early days. Reflecting on the album in March 2020, the band shared the following statement: "We made this record in a rehearsal space in San Francisco in late 2009. It was kind of a classic band space, shared by a rangy assortment of musicians over months and years, behind one of several similar doors in a dark red hall. A windowless room lit by string lights and an odd assortment of lamps, the walls a palimpsest of posters and gig fliers. There was a grimy, burn-pocked rug, cluttered gear in various stages of use and abandonment, and the air seemed to hang in a permanent film of smoke residue and stale beer. We recorded to a 4-track tape machine over the course of a few nights - we'd just start the beats, hit 'record' and let fly. We had a vague sense of coalescence, or fomentation, like a glimpse of a thing in outline which you can't yet see, but neither of us knew at the time that this was the record that would mark the beginning of our life as a touring band and would initiate our connections to so many (now long-time) friends, familiars and collaborators. Ten years feels like both a lifetime and the blink of an eye - measurable but impossible to quantify. These four tracks, and the others that join them here, are a snapshot of our earliest incarnation: flying blind, but high on the freedom of experimentation and filled with hope for things to come. 'Escape' was originally released on Woodsist in 2010. 'A Little Way Different' taken from the Welcome Home: Diggin' the Universe comp on Woodsist. 'Catch As Catch Can' and 'Set It On Fire' taken from a 2010 7-inch on Agitated Records.

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LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Souterrain Transmissions)

Circles

17,99 €*

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shadow Of The Sun Blue And White Galaxy Vinyl Edition

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Sacred Bones)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shadow of the Sun is the result of a few months of Moon Duo wrangling with a new and unsettling way of being. Working both in a dark basement in Portland, and above ground in sunny San Francisco, these new sounds and songs veered dramatically from groove to groove, revealing sonic textures the duo had not previously explored. The song "Night Beat", with it's woozy dance rhythm, is an attempt at finding joy and acceptance on this new, shifting ground, while "Wilding" plays off the familiar Moon Duo sound, taking refuge in a repetitive, grounding riff-scape. Elsewhere the band gives itself entirely up to the trip, cruising along on the fuzzed rhythms of "Slow Down Low" and "Free the Skull", crashing into the clenched-teeth herky-jerk of Zero, and floating down, down, down, on the narcotic mist of "In a Cloud".

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Occult Architecture Volume 1 Grey Vinyl Edition

LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Sacred Bones)

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Meaning all things magick and supernatural, the root of the word occult is that which is hidden, concealed, beyond the limits of our minds. If this is occult, then the Occult Architecture of Moon Duo's fourth album - a psychedelic opus in two separate volumes released in 2017 - is an intricately woven hymn to the invisible structures found in the cycle of seasons and the journey of day into night, dark into light.ÿ Offering a cosmic glimpse into the hidden patterning embedded in everything, Occult Architecture reflects the harmonious duality of these light and dark energies through the Chinese theory of Yin and Yang. In Chinese, Yin means "the shady side of the hill" and is associated with the feminine, darkness, night, earth. Following this logic, Vol. 1 embraces and embodies Moon Duo's darker qualities _ released appropriately on February 3, in the heart of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Mazes Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Souterrain Transmissions)

25,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | EU | Original (Souterrain Transmissions)

Circles

17,99 €*

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Circles is the product of a long winter’s isolation in the Rocky Mountains, though the road to its fruition stretched over six months and several locations. The groundwork for the album was laid at the band’s home in Blue River, Colorado in the early months of 2012, where all songs were written, and the preliminary tracks recorded. For two weeks in early April, Moon Duo moved into a small apartment above Lucky Cat Recordings in San Francisco for an additional recording session with engineer Phil Manley (Trans Am, Life Coach). Like it’s predecessor, the album was mixed and tweaked at Kaiku Studios in Berlin.

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LP | 2011 | DE | Original (Souterrain Transmissions)

Mazes

19,99 €*