The Moonlandingz are Lias Soudi, Adrian Flanagan and Dean Honer. All three have a rich history of music in other projects including Decius and Fat White Family for Lias, Acid Klaus for Adrian, and I Monster for Dean but currently The Moonlandingz is where it's at for them- their second album, No Rocket Required, is lined up for release later this month. Ahead of it, released yesterday, is It's Where I'm From, a single with Iggy Pop singing on it (released a day after Iggy's 78th birthday).
It's Where I'm At is a beautiful, heartfelt, melancholic number, a ballad for the 21st century, a jazzy lullaby with Iggy at his most rueful, 78 years of hard won wisdom, staring down the barrel of the gun of mortality. Adrian wrote the song fifteen years ago, sitting at home whacked up on morphine following a bike accident that left him with two broken arms and sticking two metaphorical fingers up at the doctor who told him he might never regain the full use of his arms- home studio, one finger and a thumb on the Mellotron and a drum machine. Filled out with live drums and some Gallic sax, Adrian approached Iggy for vox and thankfully, he said yes.
Iggy likes to dip out of rock and into chanson and jazz from time to time. In 2019 he recorded Free, a sombre, contemplative album of ambient jazz with nods to Lou Reed and Dylan Thomas. In 1999 he recorded Avenue B, a reflective, post- divorce album with several acoustic, jazz inflected, spoken word songs, including the title track...
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Iggy's vocals reminding slightly of Leonard Cohen in his later years. Nice tune.
Great tune. Iggy gets better from time to time, even though he only speaks. But his collaboration with Underworld cannot be surpassed.
That Underworld EP was really good, I should revisit that.
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