Moon And Sixoence

To The Moon And The Sun is the name of the reggae captain's 2019 longplayer around Captain Tom Lugo, who have been traveling to new galaxies in the reggae universe for two decades with their Spaceship Jamaram. In contrast to the previous habit of the colorful mix of styles from everything that goes into the leg on the previous albums, Jamaram have put their musical focus on reggae on the long player »To The Moon And The Sun«, the varieties of Bassheavy Modern Roots, Oldschool Ska, 80s Dancehall about Spacig-Dubbige Tunes to songwriting centered material rich. The result is a multi-faceted but stylistically nonetheless stringent album that once again underlines the uniqueness of the Jamaram phenomenon.

We’re going back to the moon. This episode explores how we did it in the past and how and why we will do it again.

When Sacred Bones first began their Mort Garson reissue project in 2019 with a proper reissue of Plantasia, the Garson-naissance began in earnest. Soon after, you could hear Mort Garson and his Moogs bubbling up on TV shows, documentaries, podcasts, hip-hop tracks, or anywhere else, the man a cultural phenomenon once more. Like a perennial that returns with each new spring, the Mort Garson archives have brought to bear yet another awe-inspiring bloom.

On 23rd August, almost forty years after it was initially released, The Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.