A little away from the classic club floors, the Leipzig band Flying Moon In Space explores a highly danceable energy with minimalist arrangements. Time for a quick introduction and a look at their new album.
A collective idea and hours of improvisation resulted in Flying Moon In Space a good ten years ago in Leipzig. They played anywhere there was a bit of space, in house projects, snack bars or bars – often non-stop for half the night until hardly anyone could stand anymore. Motorically pulsating drums and minimalist guitar patterns merged with effects pedals to create exhilarating, extremely danceable music that intuitively transformed with the moment.
To this day, the music of the now six-piece band is created from free improvisation. For their third album “Immer Für Immer”, which was released on March 13th on the London label Fuzz Club, they spent ten days in the Kinett, a former cinema in the small town of Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate. There they condensed nine songs from their playing together – almost all of them shorter than four minutes, but so condensed, energetic and sometimes fragmented that it seems as if they could stretch for hours if they were only allowed to.
Flying Moon In Space have described the album as a “ritual against the feeling of being lost” and thus locate themselves in the ruptures of the present. “Immer Für Immer” also explores boundaries musically: the first track “Barbarian” rolls in quickly with bright, distorted synth arpeggios, which are soon torn away by tight, dull pounding drums. The reverb makes the singing sound like a call from a distance, the melody is incredibly catchy and familiar. As soon as the pull of the tempo has spread, the single abruptly flows into a flat area, only to rush away from the calm again ecstatically. The mood remains melancholic. In “Where Are You” stumbling patterns and minimalist guitar patterns overlap before the chorus with a bright choir and lots of space merges into one of the album's euphoric, overwhelming moments.
Krautrock is one of the obvious categories, and not just because of the common way of writing pieces. The principle of “increase through repetition” runs through all tracks and also ensures technoid passages, including distorted metallic, electronic sounds. Densely intertwined surfaces of guitar effects and synths build bridges to shoegaze and ambient – the song “Zx473-A,” for example, is a single, moving, coolly pulsating surface.
Live on tour in Europe
Flying Moon In Space has long since left the small gaps in their hometown. Her current tour takes her across Europe in April and May. On April 8th they brought “Immer Für Immer” to the stage in Leipzig at the UT Connewitz, which they shared with the post-punk luminaries A Place To Bury Strangers.
Flying Moon In Space are: Atom Parks (vocals), Valentin Bringmann (guitar), Henrik Rohde (guitar), Sebastian Derksen (guitar/synthesizer), Sascha Neubert (bass) and Timo Lexau (drums)
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Source: https://www.frohfroh.de/45805/fuer-immer-flying-moon-in-space
