Happy New Year!
"Endless Air" - the second album from Additional Moog - is now mixed and being mastered for release in Spring 2009.
Work on the 11 song album started in summer 2007, shortly after the release of the debut "Thirty Three & A Third", and finished in December 2008. It's been quite a journey.
Six tracks are now up for you to listen to at the Additional Moog myspace page. You can also download "Radio Silence" from our download links on the left of this blogpage.
"Quietly Through The Canyon" : This opens the new album and shares a musical motif with another track from the Silence/Quiet mini-concept. Wanted to open with a song that had no acoustic guitars. This nearly went a stage further, the idea being not to have ANY guitars, but the Les Paul refused to die.
"Kicking Static" : one of the oldest songs in the Additional Moog catalogue. This was originally demoed on 4 track back in 1997! It has often been played live since Additional Moog's concert debut in 2004 but only recently came together in this definitive form.
"Made From Games" : written at the beginning of the sessions for "Endless Air", this track has been played live several times in the past 12 months and is one of the album's key tracks.
"I'm Not Safe In This World" : the most recent song and a favourite. This was written, largely, in a hotel room up a snowy mountain somewhere in Switzerland. Another song not to feature any acoustic guitar.
"Silver Diver" : Another "oldie" - well, it's an oldie where I come from. "Diver" first started out on a 4 track demo tape around the same songwriting era as "Kicking Static". Finally found a satisfying arrangement in time for this new album. Handclaps and doo-wop backing vocals courtesy of Betsy and Sheila.
"Radio Silence" : this is one of the closing tracks on the album. Clocking in at just over 7 minutes, this track is a bit of an epic made up of several different movements and at one stage is meant to be musically tied to the opening track "Quietly Through The Canyon". The ending rocks
