Open Space

'Songs We Like to Listen to While Traveling Through Open Space' was recorded as though you were sitting around a table with The Moonband, in order to predominantly maintain the pure sound. If you listen very closely, you can hear the ever so faint creaking of the wooden floorboards in the 150 year old house in Bohemian-Switzerland (Czech Republic), which served as the recording studio. Set deep in the countryside in a dark forest, hardly any different than that of outer space. The perfect surroundings to create such an intimate album. Some of the songs on 'Open Space' are older than two years, over the course of time that have changed, condensed, and grown together with the band. Other songs arose, as it were, in one take during a session in the kitchen. The kitchen is still, in spite of the expanding instrumentation, a consistently favorite space for The Moonband to work in. In an extreme case. Three years in a tiny spaceship. Many may wonder why the lead vocals alternate throughout the album. The Moonband don't. Why should they? The two songwriters, Houston and Mondbasis, handle the majority of singing duties while being backed by Katerina Kirkov. Meanwhile, Andy Armstrong plucks his large bass and Elena Rakete merrily slaps her old cardboard box, which once contained James Joyce's old diaries. 'Open Space' is not an album made to take the charts by storm. Instead it's more of a message in a bottle, being sent into space, hoping to encounter like-minded friends in the abyss.