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1.	Fedora Moon 04:03	buy track
2.	Peas & Carrots & Grass 06:50	buy track
3.	Coeur de Boeuf 04:42	buy track
4.	The Dark Side of the Moon is Dark for a Reason 04:42	buy track
5.	And With Stars At Her Feet 02:36	buy track
6.	Nurse Ratched 05:49	buy track
7.	The Mutt Stars and Cat Planets 04:17	buy track
8.	Ennio Bopped Me 07:20	buy track

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Moon Men “3” Review by Jerry Kranitz

"Moon Men is the quartet of EC community member Bret Hart, Bill Jungwirth, Jerry King, and Dave Newhouse. I’ve been following Bret’s music for nearly 20 years and have written about him extensively. And Newhouse was a founding member of Washington, DC based prog-jazz-Canterbury legends The Muffins.

I’ll confess that I only buy CDs anymore if they are by an artist I follow closely. Other than that, I’ll opt for digital if only CD is available. But Bret is not one to be hindered by the physical limitations of the format, which is no surprise because he came from the 1980's CASSETTE world!!

I sprung for the special limited edition. Check this out… The CD is housed in a gatefold jacket, but also comes with a postcard signed by the band members, a poster, and a bonus 3” CDR with accompanying 14 page handmade, PERSONALIZED art booklet. Isn’t it lovely? View the video for a detailed look.

This is the third Moon Men album and, like the others, it’s a crazy but totally seamless blend of avant-jazz-progressive rock… Prog-jazz with an adventurous experimental edge. I like how jazzy horns trip along on ‘Peas & Carrots & Grass’ to a steady jazz-rock rhythmic pulse. After a few minutes the guitar challenges them and the musicians bull and matador circle each other, slowly jamming and finding their way as noise and effects color the proceedings. I love the contrast between the chaotic jamming groove, sweetly swooning horns, and brief punked-out vocals on ‘Coeur de Boeuf’. Lusciously clunky!

Other highlights include ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon Is Dark For A Reason’, which has a dreamy melodic vibe that recalls the Canterbury sound of 1980's Muffins. But it’s amped-up an experimental notch with scratching effects, clatter percussion and cascading electronics. Dig that lazy, lysergic jazz-blues on ‘Nurse Ratched’. Moon Men get nicely spacey on ‘The Mutt Stars And Cat Planets’, rocking HARD in alien prog-jazz land, but later make a gradual descent into a beautifully melodic Canterbury finale.

Progheads with a taste for the creatively strange will dig this!"

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released September 1, 2019

Bret Hart: electric & acoustic guitars, Ebow, field recordings, Casio SK5, devices and electronics
Bill Jungwirth: drumming & percussion
Jerry King: basses, guitars, trombones
Dave Newhouse: reeds and keyboards

Cover photograph: Fernando Sanabria
Cover image manipulation: B. Hart

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Bret Hart is a musician, artist, and child of God living in North Carolina.
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