Keeper or Coaster?
Allow me to wax nostalgic for a wee moment, if you will...
Back in the days before Amoeba put every other record store in town out of business, L.A. was the place for cheapo parking lot sales. Aron's Records, Rhino, Rockaway, Record Surplus... hell, you could go at least once a month and feast on $1 CDs like Kirstie Alley at a Vegas buffet. It was beautiful, I tells ya... in part because you could just buy shit because it had a cool name/cover art, and if it sucked, big deal... it made a handsome drink coaster. Of course, sometimes you'd get lucky and pick up something like this Moon Orchestra record. Cool name? Check... I'm a sucker for any "orchestra". Cool cover art? Check. (Actually I found you could tell a lot about an unknown CD from the font used. I'm not even making that up.) The music? Nu-Jazz chillz from a solo Norwegian dude that wouldn't sound out of place on Sonar Kollektiv...
... but! That's it in the Moon Orchestra oeuvre... except for like, a production credit on a Princess Superstar song. Therefore I can only conclude that, since Mr. Moon was from Norway, that he was most likely trampled by an Elk. Pity, that... the boy had potential...
Back in the days before Amoeba put every other record store in town out of business, L.A. was the place for cheapo parking lot sales. Aron's Records, Rhino, Rockaway, Record Surplus... hell, you could go at least once a month and feast on $1 CDs like Kirstie Alley at a Vegas buffet. It was beautiful, I tells ya... in part because you could just buy shit because it had a cool name/cover art, and if it sucked, big deal... it made a handsome drink coaster. Of course, sometimes you'd get lucky and pick up something like this Moon Orchestra record. Cool name? Check... I'm a sucker for any "orchestra". Cool cover art? Check. (Actually I found you could tell a lot about an unknown CD from the font used. I'm not even making that up.) The music? Nu-Jazz chillz from a solo Norwegian dude that wouldn't sound out of place on Sonar Kollektiv...
Moon Orchestra - Midnight Movies (ysi)
... but! That's it in the Moon Orchestra oeuvre... except for like, a production credit on a Princess Superstar song. Therefore I can only conclude that, since Mr. Moon was from Norway, that he was most likely trampled by an Elk. Pity, that... the boy had potential...
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