HIDDEN GEM by THE ZENMENN AND JOHN MOODS

SKU125045
ArtistTHE ZENMENN AND JOHN MOODS
TitleHIDDEN GEM
LabelMUSIC FROM MEMORY
Catalog #MFM060
Tag
ReleaseW 49 - 2022
FormatVinyl - EULP
EAN Barcode0731628580703
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Tracks

  1. Out Of My Mind
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/m/mfm060_hidden_gem/01_-_out_of_my_mind_6-31.mp3
  2. Into The Heart Of The Matter
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/m/mfm060_hidden_gem/02_-_into_the_heart_of_the_matter_6-06.mp3
  3. The Invisible Landscape
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/m/mfm060_hidden_gem/03_-_the_invisible_landscape_10-09.mp3
  4. Fantasy Again
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/m/mfm060_hidden_gem/04_-_fantasy_again_6-52.mp3
  5. Ordinary Time
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/m/mfm060_hidden_gem/05_-_ordinary_time_5-45.mp3
  6. Everytime
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/m/mfm060_hidden_gem/06_-_everytime_8-03.mp3

Description

'Hidden Gem' is the Zenmenn's first full album produced together with songwriter and vocalist John Moods and follows their much-loved debut record, 'Enter The Zenmenn'. Named after a country song that didn't quite make it to the final selection, 'Hidden Gem' is the result of an extended jam session at a friend’s studio, in a field of mystical meadows somewhere south of Hamburg, in which the band would experience a series of inexplicable phenomena.

It was their earlier collaboration on the future classic, 'Homage To A Friend' that kickstarted their idea to team up with John Moods again, and in the late summer of 2021 the band set to work on a full album of material together. Using The Zenmenn's trusted drum kit, good old DX7, an unusual Ukrainian bass and an almost discarded pedal steel guitar, combined with Moods’ uniquely fragile voice, the outcome resulted in six timeless songs. The resulting harmonic sound is, as the band put it, “something like Adult Oriented Rock with a teaspoon of Celtic sentimentalism, a pinch of big city Country wrapped in a late night '70s style jam”.

'Hidden Gem’, much like their previous LP, was recorded without pre-arranged songs or any fixed musical concept. Instead, it captures fleeting moments of creativity and reflects the joint musical sentiments of the band members at the time. “Some artists are amazing at vision and curating, our work-flow is opposite to that. We are pretty messy and all over the place in our creation, as in life. It has its advantages and disadvantages, but hopefully it comes out all right in the end.”

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