Stardust Rituals

Six years after The Doomsday Machine, Electric Moon released their fifth studio album Stardust Rituals in 2017, taking an unusually long time to mature just four tracks. The oldest track, Stardust (The Picture), was already recorded in 2014 and previously released in instrumental form on two live albums, before finally receiving its definitive studio treatment with vocals and additional overdubs.

The eight-minute opener The Loop shows the band surprisingly structured and song-oriented, before Stardust (The Picture) transitions into a pulsing two-note trance with ghostly, heavily distorted vocals by Komet Lulu. With the sustained, sitar-laden Astral Hitch Hike and the over twenty-two-minute epic (You Will) Live Forever Now, an almost classic 70s atmosphere unfolds at the end, somewhere between Hawkwind's Mellotron era and dark, Eastern-tinged Krautrock.

Stardust Rituals tells of the journey through the inner cosmos and the realization that nothing and no one is ever truly lost. After all, we are all made of stardust. An album that combines improvisation and songwriting more organically than almost any other Electric Moon album.

LP on 180 gram clear vinyl made in Germany and limited to 500 copies!

Electric Moon are
Komet Lulu – bass, vocals, effects
Marcus Schnitzler – drums
Sula Bassana – guitar, e-sitar, organ, mellotron, e-piano, effects