#moon hooch

[zjofierose]

ways i am currently distracting myself from listening to news updates: Moon Hooch.

you’re welcome.

[spk0thdvl]

YALL I FORGOT MOON HOOCH WAS ON THIS SONG EVEN MORE REASON TO ENJOY IT

[phdeeznutz]

What if we locked eyes and played saxophone at each other bro...

[ifmf-just-cuz-i-wanna]

Plastic fantastic

[nikkisticki]

BOMB MUSIC

I do a lot of digging for new music (as I'm something of a crazy person and live in constant anxiety of hidden gems being lost to time) so I've got a pretty good list of things you've probably not heard before. I'm going to do a weekly post with 5 tracks, take a listen and reblog/follow/HIT THAT LIKE BUTTON/SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE/SACRIFICE YOUR YOUNG IN MY NAME!

unFun fact I'm not aware of what happened to this artist, such a shame.

Gen Hoshino isn't obscure in his own country, but I bet most people aren't aware of him. Speaking of Japanese artists...

Have some metal

One of my favorite artists, cursed to obscurity. They've been making solid bangers with all their own stuff in recent years and I LOVE it all

Who needs vocals when you've got your instruments doing all of the singing for you?

[dolichomorph]

its getting late, so a few last highlights from my library before i sleep!

BUSY, thunderous piano, suddenly interrupted by slow lurching chords. super fun

"mouse on the keys" is a very good jazz band name!!

the bari sax in this band has a traffic cone jammed in the bell. look it up!

CRUSH!

[pb-dot]

Music Talk: Moon Hooch

It's always interesting to me what people expect when I say that I like listening to Jazz, or that I listen to a lot of jazz. Some, no doubt, expect jazz standards, big band jazz, or if, I'm really unlucky some crooner shit, others still may expect the kind of unbearable screechy improvisational free jazz stuff that is seemingly designed for people who know too much music theory to say "regular people just don't get it." If I'm real real lucky, and this is rare, they'll think about something like today's band, Moon Hooch

So, the basics. Moon Hooch is saxophone duo Wenzl McGowen and Michael Wilbur, along with a rotating cast of drummers and their considerable collection of different interpretations of the concept of saxophone. They're most famous for their dance music-inspired rhytm jams and shenanigans with using traffic cones to aplify and change the nature of the saxophone sound, but they're also known to do the occasional cover.

The most impressive thing about Moon Hooch to me is the sheer breadth of their musical output. Considering how riotously fun I, and many others, find their flaring sax-and-percussion thrill rides like Red Sky, they could easily have made only songs like this and probably still been a pretty cool band. The hyperactive woodwindists are not ones to rest on their laurels, partially I suspect, because they can't.

This has led them many interesting places. In the album This Is Cave Music they experimented with a more digital sound and some use of actual vocals like in St Louis or aping an entirely different genre entirely in Contrabass Dubstep. Meanwhile on Red Sky, we hear a more domineering Wall Of Saxophone-style of sound like in Psychotubes as well as some lighter, more playfull blasts of saxophone noises such as in Low 5.

I could go on but I shan't for the sake of brevity. I will, however, shoutout the perhaps wubbiest and most improvisational-sounding of their jams This Is Water that also works as a mission statement of sorts.

In closing, I would like to implore anyone reading this to, if the opportunity should present itself, to see these guys live. While I find the album versions of their songs very well-produced and -recorded, there is no doubt these lads are an absolute force of nature on a live stage. On the one Moon Hooch concert I've had the pleasure of experiencing, I was assailed with wave after wave of just plain excellent saxophone music, and our rowdy woodwind boys paused only long enough to switch instrument when the setlist called for it. How anyone can have and maintain that level of energy for a full concert I am sure I don't know, but it was intense, dancy fun all the same.

[performing-personhood]

And nobody tagged Moon Hooch, really??

Gotta do everything my damn self around here huh

Qué satisfaction!!

[thenextcelestialchapter]

THE SHOW WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING WE GOT THERE EARLY SO WE COULD GET AS CLOSE TO FRONT AS POSSIBLE AAAH I MIGHTA LOST A WEE BIT OF HEARING BUT WORTH IT LMAO THESE DUDES WERE SO IN SHAPE DANCING WHILE PLAYING W THOSE HEAVY SAXES IT WAS SO FREAKING RAD X3 *_* :D <3

[kakugori]

Another band in the same genre, Moon Hooch. Yes, traffic cone and caution tape

Now put them together:

[mathpumamusic]

16-2-2024

[Moon Tooth] "Violent Grief Sessions" : Love these guys, because I can share them with my non-metal friends. [Vulfpeck] "Mit Peck" : Fascinating to see how these guys have developed, and what aspects of their sound has stayed with them since the beginning.

"Fugue State" : Wow, these boys sure can funk! [Deastro] "Keepers" : The sounds of this album are super nostalgic for me, and I think this does a great job of preserving the sound of that cluttered comfy aesthetic the late oughts and early tens had. [Justice] "✝" : Very nearly all bangers. [Brian Eno] "After the Heat" : Super nice textures make me want to listen to more from this artist, even though I hadn't given the first project I heard from him as much attention. [De La Soul] "De La Soul is Dead" : I don't know anything about rap, but this kicks ass catastrophically. [Moon Hooch] "My Head & My Heart" : I hope that the artists are pursuing what they want to and find a lot of success, but I found this album to be a devastating departure from everything I like about Moon Hooch. [Squarepusher] "Ultravisitor" : Currently my favorite Squarepusher album, the bass solos melting out of noise are divinely inspired.

[burlveneer-music]

Too Many Zooz x Moon Hooch - "Nowhere Else to Go" - the O-happy horn buskers together

New Too Many Zooz album RETAIL THERAPY out 3/8