Buddha on the Moon

Buddha within the Moon may be the nom de plume four-track of H.K. Kahng. Certainly inspired by performers on seminal English indie brands like 4AD and Sarah, this citizen of Houston, TX, produces one-man-band recordings combining shoegazer atmospherics, twee pop melodies, periodic dabs of space rock and roll hypnotism, and a creation style that’s even more low-key than lo-fi. Kahng debuted Buddha within the Moon in the first ’90s, liberating the EP Alles Ist Gut! by himself Farrago label in 1993. The “Broke” solitary arrived in early 1994, accompanied by the 10″ EP Translucence later on the same yr. Buddha in the Moon also started seeking a sideline profession around this period, carrying out trippy space rock and roll/trip-hop remixes of singles by fellow indiepoppers just like the Electrosonics. Two even more singles made an appearance in 1996, “Lawn Sale” and “ON CHRISTMAS.” In 1997, Kahng briefly matched up with Warren Defever of His Name Is certainly Alive and various other assorted tasks; Defever co-produced and remixed the 1997 EP Crepe Paper Aircraft, offering it a suitably psychedelic audio lacking from Buddha in the Moon’s various other produces. Kahng finally released his initial full-length record, Stratospheric, afterwards in 1997. A masterful mixture of all the affects exhibited on the sooner EPs and singles, Stratospheric is most likely Buddha in the Moon’s finest hour (or 38 a few minutes, in any case). Kahng implemented it up with 1998’s THE FINAL Autumn Time, a similarly top quality album mixing brand-new materials with remixed and rerecorded monitors in the four many years of EPs and compilation performances that acquired preceded Stratospheric, and therefore features as both an excellent album alone and a helpful background lesson. Kahng place Buddha in the Moon on keep at least briefly in 1999, developing a fresh duo along with his wife Nancy known as the Imaginary Friend. Their initial EP, Whimsy, recalls the ironic synth-pop jump of early Magnetic Areas and includes a cover of the Magick Heads one. The dreamier Words Home followed another year.