Blood Moon Wedding, the duo of the legendary English punk rocker Steve Lake (Zounds) and American singer-songwriter Mia Dean, has unveiled the third and final single, “Hey Mia Do You Remember?,” from their upcoming full-length. The noir-themed, art/post-punk album, Blood Moon Wedding: An American Nightmare will be out on 7 April via Mobilization Recordings.

Of “Hey Mia Do You Remember?,” Dean informs:
“This song came out like a dream. We were experiencing very spiritually altered states while writing this album. This came out as a stream of conscious ideas from Steve, and then the harmonies exploded out of me. It’s kind of a sinister tale, but it builds into this lush, repetitive ‘the moon came up.. the stars came out…’ I think we’ve all felt that sense of awe and wonder in our lives before, no matter what our circumstances.”

Adds Lake:
“It takes place in Death Valley and Lone Pine. They use to make cowboy movies in Lone Pine. It’s full of mythologies, ancient and modern. And Death Valley is one of the most spectacularly beautiful places in the universe. But there’s a reason they call it Death Valley. We tried to capture that with the record.”

“Hey Mia Do You Remember?” is now available on digital/streaming platforms.

Watch the Music Video for “Hey Mia Do You Remember?”:

Watch the Music Video for the other preview tracks:“Spell” and “Wanted”

Blood Moon Wedding: An American Nightmare comes as a lavishly packaged vinyl two-record set with a lyric book and a limited CD; find PRE-ORDERS on Bandcamp.

FOLLOW Blood Moon Wedding on Social Media HERE.

Blood Moon Wedding is a road trip of horrors through an alternate reality. Set in the sprawling deserts of the United States, Steve and Mia find themselves trapped in a shadow world where death and love are the only way through the gates of space and time. Exploring themes of mass murder, gun violence, and trauma bonding, Blood Moon Wedding is a dramatic commentary on the violence in American society.

Blood Moon Wedding is a themed album of dramatic songs, atmospheric soundscapes and magical-realist spoken word. It was written by Mia and Steve, in California and the South West of England during the 2020 lockdown, and brought to life with the support of Oakland Composer Tom Dean (Antler Family, Code of the West, Oakland Opera) on keys and bass, Jason Willer (Jello Biafra & GSM, Charger, Acid King) on drums, and David Coulter (The Pogues, Tom Waits, Test Department) on musical saw, violin, and leslie piano. Additional recording assistance was provided by Skot Brown (Altar de Fey, Esses, Phantom Limbs) and Salvador Raya (Asunder, Laudanum) in Oakland, mixed in Los Angeles by Alex DeGroot (Zola Jesus, Sondra Sun Odeon), and mastered by Justin Weis at Trakworx.  

A movie of Blood Moon Wedding is currently in pre-production.

Track Listing:
01. Spell
02. Some Things Are Worth Believing
03. Wanted
04. Looking for Us
05. Murder Ballad
06. Hey Mia Do You Remember?
07. Wild
08. Blood Moon Wedding part 1
09. Blood Moon Wedding part 2
10. Pn M2-9

BACKGROUND:
Mia Dean is a writer and singer for the Oakland band Antler Family. She studied classical opera and performance in San Francisco with the great Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano, Blanche Thebom, and abroad. She sang opera on the stages of Italy and Austria before returning to California to focus on composition and production. Mia Dean co-founded the Oakland Metro Operahouse, where she met Steve in 2017 when Zounds was headlining Manic Relapse Fest. Known primarily as a great punk and metal venue, the Oakland Metro Operahouse is also an award-winning experimental opera company for which Dean has produced many operas, including The Turn of the Screw (B.Britten), Les Enfants Terribles (P.Glass), and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Brecht/Weil) for which she also co-wrote an updated libretto, The Hoodslam Opera.

Steve Lake is a member of the influential English alt-rock group Zounds. Lake’s work is expansive and experimental. Beyond Zounds, he has produced and performed a number of spoken-word and multimedia events throughout Europe, including the Edinburgh Festival and a highly successful residency at London’s prestigious Whitechapel Art Gallery. 

For More Info:
https://linktr.ee/bloodmoonwedding
https://www.bloodmoonwedding.com
https://www.facebook.com/bloodmoonwedding
https://www.instagram.com/bloodmoonwedding
https://bloodmoonwedding.bandcamp.com

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