Pi: Outtakes, Outbreaks, and Half-Baked Mistakes

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1.	Apollo 19 03:45		buy track
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5.	Duke Glitterball / Thin White Dwarf 08:15		buy track
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14.	Astrodrive (original 2014 version) (free) 10:39		download
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Apollo 19 (2020) - An outtake from Heavy Moon 18. The first track I began working on when the album was still intended to be in a heavy proto-metal style. And then Heavy Moon 19 was going to be entirely in an almost ambient space-rock style, similar to the opening and closing tracks but more so and perhaps as only one hour-long piece. Instead I recorded a de facto double album that didn't necessarily follow either approach.

Christian Death Cult (2020) - Another Heavy Moon 18 reject with a bit of an acid/prog feel. Rejected twice actually. First for not being heavy enough and then again for being too heavy.

Doom Consumer (2020) - The final "heavy" track I tried to write for Heavy Moon 18. After this I ran out of ideas for heavy riffs and I wasn't convinced these were ideas I hadn't trotted out a few times already. This track and "Apollo 19" remained in the playing order for quite some time until the other material made them seem more and more like red-headed stepchildren. Not cut for lack of quality (to my ears) but lack of aesthetic cohesion.

Fuck Cancer (2017) - This is a track I recorded for a compilation psych-lord Alan Busby put together aiding cancer research or treatment or care. I don't remember exactly what but it was a charity release with proceeds going towards fucking cancer to hell. This is a 2020 remix/remaster of the track, the original can be found on the compilation.
(dayzofpurpleandorange.bandcamp.com/album/dayz-of-purple-and-more-hope)

Duke Glitterball / Thin White Dwarf (2020) - An outtake from Heavy Moon XX, specifically from "Cosmodrome" I believe. If not, then obviously from "Floating Cities" — whichever one was in the key of Em. I decided I didn't want any funk/space-disco on that album as I often feel like I'm pushing my luck with Heavy Moon fans in that regard. Though the reasonably funky Heavy Moon 18 was quite popular. So what do I know?

Seven Sided Cube Of The Sonic Soul (2020) - The second in-progress version of the track that became "Christian Death Cult" with much more of a hippie/prog feel than the completed track. In fact, only the drum track is the same. It was either written before or after "Doom Consumer" as either an attempt to expand on the section of that track with a similar feel or was was an attempt to do more of the same. The second half—actually a collage of discarded takes from the first in-progress version—is a not very cleverly disguised love letter to Peter "Sonic Boom" Kember.

10th and Morrison (2020) - From the Heavy Moon 18/19 sessions. This is an actual intersection in my neighbourhood and every time I see it I think it sounds like the name of a Doors live bootleg. Anyhow, it's another track where I borrow liberally from the "Riders on the Storm" groove, so it's a fitting title for my own Doors bootleg of sorts. I like the groove (obviously) but I felt like I'd ridden this storm too many times already, time to move on.

Astral Dragstrip (2020) - Another outtake from the Heavy Moon 18/19 sessions. This one was cut for being, more or less, a rehash of the riff from the Moonwood song "The Girl Who Waited". Not a bad riff but time to move on.

Fred's Nocturne (2020) - This track was built around an alternate take of the guitar solo from the middle section of "A Groove For Chairman Fred" off Heavy Moon 19. I was playing around with using this as a bridge between that track and "Astral Plague" before, apparently, abandoning that idea. Obviously a classic example of me trying to channel Dave Gilmour.

Moldy Onions (2020) - The only track from the Heavy Moon 17 sessions that didn't make it on the album. Also one of the first recorded. Like many Moon albums, I have a concept in mind that often gets abandoned early on or midway through the recording process. That album was going to be a raw, heavy, fuzzed-out, psychedelic blues album. I felt his was too "jazz/rock fusion" to fit the bill so quicly back-burnered it. But then the entire album took on a different, more eclectic feel anyhow. The title is, of course, a play on "Green Onions" by Booker T. and The MG's as the vamp reminds me of jamming to that song in middle school with one of my first garage bands.

Got Dem Ol' Astral Blues Again, Mama (2020) - This is an embellished outtake from Heavy Moon XX. It's very much the sort of raw psychedelic blues I'd envisioned for Heavy Moon 17—and then for a time also what I wanted Heavy Moon 18 to be—so it's a little odd I'd have cut it. Though at the time of cutting it wasn't as developed as it is here (and only about a minute and half in length) so I think I simply felt if I needed to make a cut to keep the album side at 20 minutes, this interlude was a bit too much of a jarring shift in feel.

Iteration 74 (2020) - This is an altered version of a one-off track I released in January 2020 titled "Iteration 73". The title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to this being approximately the 73rd iteration of various Heavy Moon riffs and grooves. As well, for some reason it made me think of 1973 musically, though I couldn't tell you why. Perhaps it reminded me a bit of what Hawkwind were doing around that year. The point of the track at the time wasn't originality though, it was simply to test out using pre-recorded drum loops (from a studio CD-rom I have of profession session drummers) for a more polished, professional drum sound. I found the results sounded perfectly lifeless to my ears. Partially, I think, because since I'm not a terribly proficient drummer that without sloppy as fuck playing it just doesn't sound like Heavy Moon! Anyhow, this version—"Iteration 74"—replaces those pre-recorded session drummer loops with my own playing. You can compare for yourself at YouTube where "Iteration 73" is still up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Hwh3aypOs

Autobahn Deathtrip (2007) - Originally released on the CDr album Welcome To The New Atlantis under the project name BABEL. Probably this was the first sort of motorik / krautrock track I'd ever recorded and certainly fits within the Heavy Moon oeuvre. This could be considered "Iteration 1". Fun fact: the first two Heavy Moon albums were also originally released as BABEL (babelmusik.bandcamp.com) albums before I decided I needed a new project name specifically for this type of Heavy Moonish stuff.

Astrodrive (original 2014 version) - This is the original recording of the lead track on Heavy Moon 6. It has since been replaced by a 2020 re-recording. I do prefer this rawer, more inspired version but (in my opinion) it sonically didn’t fit with the more polished sound of the rest of the Heavy Moon 6 material.

Astral Debris (2023) - Outtake from Astral Highway. Some unused synthesizer parts from "Astralfunk" and a rough mix of a double time section that was jettisoned. Added to "Pi" in 2024.

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released July 1, 2021

Written, performed and recorded 2007-2020 by Jakob Rehlinger.

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HEAVY MOON Toronto, Ontario

HEAVY MOON is the studio project of Canadian multi-instrumentalist Jakob Rehlinger. Fueled by his kosmische synths and psychedelic guitar work, Rehlinger has uses Heavy Moon as an astral bridge to take listeners to the outer reaches of space.

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