Erosion by Daymoon

– Erosion –
Music for Concerned Citizens with a Natural Instinct for Science

Arranged and mixed by Daymoon, except Pardon the Turkey, The Pyre and Melas Chasma, which were mixed by Vince Welch. Album mastered by Vince Welch.

The danger with a politically-tainted album is that it might become outdated quickly. In the case of this album, actually I hope it will become outdated soon. Alas, the world is quickly rolling its belly over to its darker and less charitable side.

But to begin with, the band wants to thank you from the bottom of the heart for you being charitable supporting non-commercial music, even if only by giving some of your time to it. You are a hero!

And now about EROSION:

EROSION starts off with the last track to have been written, The Forest Within Us, which in its turn picks up where the tune Thyme from our 2016 album Cruz Quebrada left off. That thyme, which my daughter and I planted on my first wife Inês’s grave back in early 2012, has long wilted away. Inês was a passionate socialist, antifascist, environmentalist, feminist, and she loved our little home town in the mountains by the sea. And anyone who knew her knows that she would have grown bitter in this new world: less than a year after her death and right up to the pandemic, our home town Sintra buckled under crushing waves of mass tourism, with all the noise and mess and cultural defacing and defecation that come with it. Fascists and populists like Trump, Salvigni, Putin and the lot have turned the world-clock back by 70 years. Dark-age beliefs and mental blindness are spreading like wildfire. Our planetary climate is becoming increasingly instable. Mass migration is changing the map and societies, and hatred and racism have become socially acceptable, while young women in Western societies are willingly forfeiting their status and rights. Humanity and Earth with it are eroding fast.

But if you have been following our albums, you will of course know that I have remote hopes for a better future and the dream that Mankind will get through all of this reasonably unscathed and continue to evolve inward, upward and outward. The album has a track about this too. Go fetch.

Musically, EROSION represents untrodden ground for Daymoon – for the first time, many parts of the album were not written by me, and re-, pro- or transgressive rock is no core concern any longer. The album features not only the plainest of music, but also tracks with extensive soundscapes that took us literally years to imagine, create and assemble. And as always of course, consistency was not important to us, and so inevitably, if you enjoy half of the album, you will probably dislike the other half. If you like all of it, you are Fred Lessing. So go and enjoy whatever you can.

Fred Lessing
Sintra, Portugal – February 2021

Portuguese transmusical non-dance combo Daymoon aims to delight the world at large with a wild concoction of musical styles from across humanity's past.

New album WEDNESDAY out soon on our new label OOB Records! Stay tuned.

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