Artista: Pat Moonchy
Inglaterra.

Track: Liverpool

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.
Based in London, she started in Italy playing bass with a Fender Precision ‘78. In 1993 joined the crossover trio Stato D’Animo, hanging out at the Jungle Sound studios, a seminal place of the Milan alternative rock scene. There she cut her first demo tape “Caleidoscopio” selected for the Arezzo Wave contest. 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 a integral part of her persona and a necessary corollary of her committment to unconventional music culture promotion.
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. Yet, the mysterious aura remains intact througout the Sothiac output and immediately recognizable for the initiated.
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.
He has also contributed to bring her somehow back to the melodic weirdness of the origins, finding again a new, strange way to encapsulate her talents into the song-form and allowing the listener to appreciate her inspiring lyrics, sung recently also in her mother language and in Latin. They are still in activity realising several albums.
In 2018 Moonchy has been involved as singer and musician in the eclectic Carlos Ugueto Ensemble, offering ancient latin rhythms like salsa and candombe mixed with cosmic music and free jazz retracing Miles Davis ’70s period.
Through the years she played with many international musicians as well playing for charity too. 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.

Web: patmoonchy.bandcamp.com/album/instrumental

Contacto: patmoonchy@gmail.com