{"id":20689,"date":"2016-03-08T11:15:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2016-03-06T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:59:03","slug":"arthur-moon-releases-new-track-wind-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=20689","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Moon releases new track ‘Wind Up’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Moon crafts an electro-tinged rock music that evokes the experimental spirit of Radiohead and the idiosyncratic Americana one might expect from a musician raised on both The Dirty Projectors and Jeff Buckley.\u00a0They have just released a new track\u00a0Wind Up<\/em>\u00a0via\u00a0Stereogum<\/a>, which is lifted from their upcoming ‘Our Head\u00a0EP’ that will be out on March 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of throwing all of the versatility the band\u2019s six pieces have to offer at the listener at the same time, they choose to minimally complement each other, resulting in wonderfully spaces, open arrangements for Lora-Faye Ashuvud\u2019s delicate vocals to occupy.\u201d – Stereogum<\/em><\/p>\n

\"2d0bcff9-5abc-45cf-a9f1-5c627418eafe\"The debut release – an EP called ‘Our Head’ – is a four-song foray into the dark, playful terrain of Arthur Moon\u2019s world, where lush vocals pull listeners into compositions that feel both soothing and unnerving.<\/p>\n

Arthur Moon is the moniker of composer\/singer Lora-Faye Ashuvud. A Swede raised in Brooklyn, Ashuvud studied contemporary art at Smith College and moved back to New York shortly after graduating to begin her career in music. Despite being self-taught (she still does not read music), her songwriting and singing quickly earned her several prestigious awards, including the Grand Prize from NPR\u2019s Mountain Stage-sponsored NewSong contest at Lincoln Center. With the Arthur Moon project, Ashuvud turns towards her self-taught perspective, embracing a way of making music that\u2019s decidedly (and intentionally) incorrect.<\/p>\n

Ashuvud experiences a rare form of migraine that causes aphasia. During these migraines, Ashuvud is lucid but unable to speak properly: \u201cI\u2019m having a migraine\u201d might come out \u201cPony, Christmas tree, elbow!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was tickled by having the ground pulled out from under me like that,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>says Ashuvud.\u201cAnd I realized, it was a version of what I\u2019d always been looking for from music \u2013 that feeling of being turned on your head, not knowing up from down, wrong note from right note, one from two. Of being outside, disoriented,\u00a0queered.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Arthur Moon emerged out of Ashuvud\u2019s attempt to embrace this pleasurable \u201cincorrectness\u201d in music. Our Head is the bold, giddying result, informed by Greil Marcus\u2019s Old, Weird America and Federico Garcia Lorca\u2019s In Search of Duende, and crafted through Ashuvud\u2019s peculiar, polymathic approach to composing (writing lyrics, for example, via cut-up poems in the style of William S. Burroughs). Some tracks experiment with how music can joyfully upend a listener when the rules of formal composition or time signature are inverted (Boxing<\/em> and Bold Affair<\/em>), while others explore the way disorientation inflects our relationships (Room<\/em>) and political systems (Wind-Up<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The Arthur Moon band includes bassist Marty Fowler (a composer for This American Life and Limetown), vocalist and keyboard player Rachel Brotman (plays with Autre Ne Veut), guitarist Nick Lerman, drummer Dave Palazola, and vocalist Aviva Jaye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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