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The Moon is no Door is an experimental indie rock band. Their first album was released in 2022, featuring Dirk Dresselhaus - processed electric guitar and mixing, Ulrich Krieger - saxophones, and was recorded live by Stepha Schweiger - vocals, pianos, synthesizer, Robert Pöschl - electric bass, Adam Goodwin - double bass, Mäx Huber - drums, vocals, Christian Haudej - electric guitar. Their melodic, catchy and edgy sound with two basses playing simultaneously combines with elements from kraut and psychedelic.

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August 26, 2022 - Album Release

THE MOON IS NO DOOR | Tiny moment
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The Moon Is No Door is the new band spearheaded by the composer and singer/songwriter Stepha Schweiger, a familiar name thanks to her experimental musical theatre work and productions with Pyrolator and Hanno Leichtmann. Expanded to the four-piece band The Moon Is No Door, this album follows on from two solo albums dedicated to the poetry of Katherine Mansfield. However, it takes a new musical direction because, according to Schweiger, “the new selection from Mansfield’s texts needed a band that sounded harder, edgier and more krauty, plus I had a huge longing to do something with familiar band members again.”

Eight of the album’s nine songs are based on poems and literary still-lifes by the NewZealand-British author Katherine Mansfield, all of which are still relevant to this day. “I immediately identified with these lyrics on a very emotional level,”says Stepha Schweiger, “as if they came from deep within me. And then I felt the irrepressible urge to sing and play them”. In the psychedelic, krautrock musical settings, which are heavily influenced by both indie pop and improvisational avant-garde, the moon is no door create fictional scenarios and dialogues with multiple vocal inserts in the form of collages.

The core of the band consists of Stepha Schweiger on vocals, synthesizer and piano, Adam Goodwin on double bass, Robert Pöschl (Robert Forster, Kim Foley) on electric bass and Mäx Huber (Walter Salas-Humara, Kim Foley) on drums. There are also guest appearances by Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed) on saxophone and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) on “processed” electric guitar along with Christian Haudej on electric guitar. The Moon Is No Door came into being over the course of several sessions with Schweiger’s long-time musical associates. It all kicked off with Stepha Schweiger and Adam Goodwin, who then brought robert Pöschl and Mäx Huber on board, with whom Stepha also collaborates in the group “Girl on Catfish”. Stepha and robert know each other since their teens. Both of them played together for five years with the forerunner bands and then in the resulting formation of “Baby You Know”.

On Tiny Moment, Stepha Schweiger amalgamates poems by Katherine Mansfield and excerpts of a Virginia Woolf text with her own compositions to create exciting, absurd and even magical-sounding songs. With regard to her approach, Schweiger has the following to say: “I don’t just want to create an embellishment to a poem, but initially aim to create a musical antithesis that coalesces as much as possiblewith the poem. With this in place, I can in turn look at the poem, feel it, hear it, understand it and, in the process, realise something new every time, also about the poem itself. This is a reciprocal composition process of convergence between music and text. As a result of identifying the largest deviation and the strongest possible confluence between music and text, the composition ultimately emerges in the most autonomous manner imaginable.”

More than a century ago, Katherine Mansfield already created a self-determined modus vivendi forherself, on both a private and professional level. This sense of autonomy is reflected in her literary output. The tracks dive into the topics ofself-perception as a woman in society, finding a haven in various relationshipsand perceiving the significance of nature. The album’s title track deals with atiny but enchanted moment during the twilight hours when suddenly a spooky element appears in the air, transforming everything into a minor miracle andconferring magic on the perception of oneself and one’s surroundings. Incontrast, “Gray’s Inn Road” is about pilgrims striving to reach nowhere – is ita “Road to Nowhere” or does it actually lead to a destination? ...

June 24, 2022 - Digital Single Release

the moon is no door | revelation
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the leadsingle "Revelation" is out on June 24, 2020, accompanied by the teaser video for the album "Tiny Moment" - Vinyl, CD & Download – to be released on August 26, 2022.

On July 15, 2022, the video "Revelation" is released.

The moon is no door will perform a release tour starting in September 2022 in Germany and Austria.

concert

22nd September 2022, Reutlingen, Der Pappelgarten

tiny moment - release tour
Facebook Eventhomepage Der Pappelgarten

21st September 2022, Regensburg, Alte Mälzerei

Tiny Moment - Release Tour w/ Girl on Catfish, Diamond Dogs
Facebook EventTickets Regensburg

20th September 2022, Graz, Austria, Cafe Wolf

Tiny Moment - Release Tour
Facebook EventFacebook Cafe Wolf

19th September 2022, Vienna, Austria, Rhiz

Tiny Moment - release tour w/ the boys only drink champagne
Facebook EventTickets Vienna

18th September 2022, Freising near Munich, Furtner

Tiny Moment - Release Tour w/ June Calls
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17th September 2022, Bad Brambach, Hammer 18

Tiny Moment - Release Tour

15th September 2022, Cologne, Blue Shell

Tiny Moment - Release Tour, w/ Kai Niggemann, Mindström
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14th September 2022, Berlin, Marie Antoinette

Tiny Moment - Release Tour w/ Adam13
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Press

Jazzthetik

Review in Jazzthetik 11-12 2022

Ox Fanzine

Review in Ox Fanzine 10-11 22

BR24 - Roland Biswurm on Tiny Moment

Broadcast by Roland Biswurm including Interview with Stepha Schweiger

BR24 - Roland Biswurm on Tiny Moment - Interview with Stepha Schweiger

Rolling Stone

review in issue 09 / 2022

Westzeit on Tiny Moment

Review on Tiny Moment in Westzeit.de

Westzeit Review

Tiny moment in Freistil with Holger Luckas on Radioeins

Freistil broadcast from August 24, 2022

Freistil from August 24, 2022

Gaesteliste - Internet Music Magazine - Album of the week

Platte der Woche - Review by Ullrich Maurer

Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Deutschlandfunk Kultur Tonart 22nd August, 2022, 3 pm, interview and live performance with The Moon Is no Door

online till 29th August, 2022, listen to interview and live performance

Deutschlandfunk Corso

Interview with Stepha Schweiger on the Album Tiny Moment and the band The Moon is no Door

Interview and more music of album "Tiny Moment"

TAZ - Neue Musik aus Berlin - Mansfield, dringlich

new review by Stephanie Grimm in the TAZ Berlin

new review of Tiny Moment by The Moon Is No Door in the TAZ Berlin

SWR2 - Tiny Moment - Album of the week

Tiny Moment - Album of the week on SWR2 - broadcast on August 19, 2022

listen to interview at Tandem on swr2 - by Luigi lauer

Tonspion

„Revelation“ ist zugleich ihr Debüt vom Erstlingsalbum „Tiny Moment“, das am 26. August erscheinen wird. Im Track geht es um die Absurdität des Lebens und mit seinen Nina-Hagen-ähnlichen Vocals trifft er das auch völlig.

Death or Desire - Collective, Blog, Music Hub

"Revelation" is the first single by new band The Moon Is No Door, whose debut album Tiny Moment is out August 26th. This song is a tightrope of tension, with enchanting piano harmonies juxtaposed with raw saxophone, guitar and vocal sounds. The musician delivers a sound that is a bit reminiscent to the late 70s we think.

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