{"product_id":"snowbird-moon-10th-anniversary-edition","title":"Snowbird - Moon (10th Anniversary Edition)","description":"Born from love, musical empathy, a baby grand piano discovered on Gumtree and an\nexpired visa, Snowbird duo, Stephanie Dosen and Simon Raymonde, crafted an album\nof exquisite melody and mood that radiates the uncanny mystery of the object it's\nnamed after: moon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nOriginally released February 4th, 2014 on Bella Union, \u003ci\u003eMoon\u003c\/i\u003e comprises 11 songs\ncomposed between two continents; Raymonde was in London while Dosen was in\nNorth Carolina after being based in the capital following her 2007 debut A Lily For The\nSpectre. Snowbird's album was subsequently crafted via the wonder of technology,\nand yet moon has one unifying and intimate sound and vision, from gently pulsating,\npop-centric trails to lingering, luminous ballads..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMoon\u003c\/i\u003e features a stellar castlist of guests lending their talents to proceedings:\nRadiohead's drummer, Philip Selway, and guitarist, Ed O'Brien, Midlake guitarist, Eric\nPulido, and drummer, McKenzie Smith , and two more gifted guitarists in Paul Gregory\n(Lanterns On The Lake) and Jonathan Wilson all contribute..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Having them add their magic to the record was a thrill, but really, I think this is very\nmuch Stephanie's record,\" Raymonde said at the time. \"She's a really special singer\nand I feel the simplicity of my music was the perfect backdrop for her stories and her\nincredible vocal arrangements.\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe pair's first connection was Raymonde's discovery of Dosen's music and\nsubsequently producing her debut album and releasing it on Bella Union. \"Stephanie\nwas the first singer I had worked with since Elizabeth [Fraser of Cocteau Twins] that I\nhad a real musical empathy with,\" he admits. \"She could do anything.\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nRaymonde no longer had instruments or microphones in his flat until he saw an offer\nof a baby grand piano that was free apart from transportation costs. Once it was\ninstalled, he slowly began to play again. \"I never intended Cocteau Twins to be my last\nband,\" he says, \"but frankly I wasn't just going to jump back on any old nag just for the\nsake of it.\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIt was fortuitous that he had the baby grand for company when Dosen had to return to\nthe US to reapply for a visa. Once there, she started receiving emails, \"short piano\npieces, every night for 12 days,\" Raymonde recalls. \"And each morning, I'd wake up to\nan email of my piano piece with these amazing vocals that she'd recorded in North\nCarolina. After two weeks, we had the basis for what now makes up \u003ci\u003eMoon\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\"I wrote every piece of music at night, in semi-darkness so that the space didn't feel\nlike my living room,\" says Raymonde. \"The moon was very important for the light it\nreflected.\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\"All the stories on the record are night-time stories, forest-y and moonlit,\" Dosen adds.\n\"The moon only shines because it is being seen by the sun - I like the idea of that sort\nof illumination of an object or a person. It's almost like being seen makes us shine.\"","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"\"Sage Colour\" LP + Bonus CD","offer_id":50717407215894,"sku":"RMX-58601","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/a75ddf28730ec2c19f68757028bdf634.png?v=1763376990","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/snowbird-moon-10th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}