Zeros

Description

Originally, the music of Soft Moon was not intended for an audience. Luis Vasquez (a native of Oakland) began this project with the sole aim of getting to know himself better. He holed up in his apartment and recorded continuously, letting himself be guided by his instinct and his memory, two false twins that led him toward darkness, claustrophobia, and fear: a musical desert driven by Motorik, worn down by post-punk and seeping with the gloom of darkwave. This second album is sharper, more incisive, more lively. Because unlike the first self-titled album, recorded solo and in isolation, Zeros was born on the road, as Soft Moon became a live band and also experimented with visual treatments. After 6 months of solo work, Vasquez teamed up with producer and sound engineer Monte Vallier in his San-Fransisco studio where he was able to refine his desire for primitive sound and post-apocalyptic atmospheres. The result is total immersion, a hypnotic trance, under the pale light of a moon not so soft.