Arthur Moon Streams New EP Our Head on Noisey, Out Today

By: Mar. 31, 2016
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Lora-Faye Ashuvud, the mesmerizing composer and singer of the band Arthur Moon, has treated us to a newly released EP that has been described as both soothing and unnerving. The Brooklyn-raised artist, although decorated with multiple prestigious awards from outlets such as NPR's Mountain Stage-sponsored New Song contest, is self-taught (she still does not read music). The Arthur Moon project emerged out of Ashuvud's desire to lean into her lack of training, creating music that intentionally (and delightfully) incorrect.

The four songs on Our Head are the bold, giddying result, informed by Greil Marcus's Old, Weird America and Federico Garcia Lorca's In Search of Duende, and crafted through Ashuvud's peculiar, polymathic approach to composing (writing lyrics, for example, via cut-up poems in the style of William S. Burroughs).

While best described as electro-tinged rock music, the compositions and arrangements performed by the talented sextet give the listener a sense of pleasurable disorientation, joyfully upending listeners when the rules of formal composition or time signature are inverted.

Listen to the full EP here.


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