Tracklist:

LP 1

1. City Poison
2. Sweetheart
3. Spaceship Earth
4. Beautiful Pigeon
5. Mugshot Heroine
6. Wanderlust
7. Tar Baby
8. Seen & Not Heard
9. Bleach & Salt Water
10. Little Thing

LP 2

1. Secondhand Clothes
2. Blister
3. Beeside
4. Home Survival Kit
5. Drop In The Ocean
6. Coming (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
7. Beautiful Pigeon (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
8. Sweetheart (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
9. Mugshot Heroine (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)

We are excited to get Moonshakes debut album Eva Luna back in print, and on October 6th, we will release a deluxe edition re-mastered from analogue 12 tape on double blue vinyl. Our

reissue contains 19 tracks which equal the albums original 10, The non-LP three-song single Secondhand Clothes, the two b-sides from the Beautiful Pigeon single and four tracks from a November 1992 John Peel session. The release also includes an 8-page full-colour booklet.

Moonshake was formed in 1991 by David Callahan (vocals, guitars, samplers), formerly of The Wolfhounds, and New York musician Margaret Fiedler (vocals, guitars, samplers). Callahan and Fiedler recorded a demo for Creation Records, and were joined by John Frenett (bass) and Miguel Morland (Mig, drums) to record and release the First EP for Creation in 1991 . They took their name from a 1973 single by Can. Both Fiedler and Callahan wrote songs, and they would (generally) sing on the songs that they wrote. Their output of shared inspiration produced wildly different results – Can, PIL, Kraftwerk, MBV, Erik B & Rakim were a melting pot that made Moonshake somewhat uncategorizable, and as Margaret noted in an interview, Moonshake was a collision – it was supposed to be a collision.

Their debut album Eva Luna took its name from a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende and the tracks on it are split evenly between the two songwriters. Callahans songs are somewhat

angry, dissonant, post-punk affairs, while Fiedlers are just as angular, but her quieter sometimes near whispered vocals compliment her writing partners equally. Producer/engineer Guy Fixsen, fresh from his work on My Bloody Valentines Loveless, was instrumental in making the album cohesive.

This album has been critically revisited often since its original release, with Tiny Mix Tapes describing their sound as an updated take on Can and Public Image Limiteds rhythmic propulsion with noisier guitar work and a predilection for sampling influenced by The Young Gods. Last year, in a wonderfully long piece to celebrate the albums 30th anniversary, Louder Than War wrote that they were blown away by the albums utterly spellbinding, dizzyingly genre-defying approach at articulating explicitly the sound of a city in the throes of urban psychosis and derangement…Eva Luna really is one hell of a ground-breaking record, and it stands resolutely alone among all of the albums released in 1992 as no other band has managed to create anything remotely similar before or since. It really is a unique album with few equals.

In 1993, the original incarnation of the band split up, and Margaret Fiedler and John Frenett went on to form Laika with Guy Fixsen. Callahan and Morland continued on with guest musicians, with Callahan ultimately remaining the bands sole original member. Moonshake ended in 1997 but their legacy is indisputable.