Pat Moonchy is a unique singer/musician whose work is well worth
exploring for any listener seriously interested in experimental
music as well as underground music.
In 1994 she opened The Moonshine Pub, an alternative-artsy place run
until 2015. There she tried to help find visuality for underground
creativity: Moonchy s interest in art is an integral part of her
persona and a necessary corollary of her commitment to
unconventional music culture promotion.Operating as dj resident was
mixing with a style of her own 60- 70 psych, UK IDM, and kraut-rock
becoming a kind of lighthouse for the enthusiastic listener.
Since 2010 Pat Moonchy is performing solo live sets with electronic
equipment, some designed or modified at her request. It s
unconventional analog synthesis, though oscillators are present the
sound generation is not linear and a great deal of it is created
by sensitive manipulation of the knobs.
Sound art, always articulated with an intuitive, organic approach,
has become a major area of her development: learning the Theremin
technique from Barbara Buchholz and purchasing a Persephone (a
ribbon controlled synthesizer) were the first steps, followed by the
inclusion in her array of electroacoustic devices.
In 2015 after twenty one years The Moonshine closed but Moonchy didn
t stop and moved to Berlin, where founded the current project
Sothiac. The band scored the release of two album, touring EU, Japan
with 16 gigs and across China by train from north to Hong Kong,
including a performance in the Manchurian capital Harbin, the first
exhibition there of an European act.
Moonchy is exploring new trajectories in her intertwined use of
voice as instrument and of the electronics, successfully integrating
noisicianism into her language.
The solo efforts and collaborations of Pat Moonchy are rising in
number, eclecticism and importance. Among them, a consolidated
association with U.S. musician/producer Todd Tobias as Moonchy &
Tobias duo.
The music of Pat Moonchy is what is beyond Alice s door, a sonic
world where avant-garde and underground are amalgamated and a sense
of surprise mushrooms everywhere the ears stretch out.
30/04/2020
Fabio LimidoO