from the EP Get To Know Mine
via Simple Living Ferndale
2012
Jonathan A. Berz: vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, lead guitar, synthesizer
Shaun Wisniewski: rhythm guitar, vocals
Ryan Looney: percussion
Sara Grosky: bass
Julie Wisniewski: vocals
Alexis Dodson: vocals
Jordan Wilson: vocals
music recorded at our homes in 2011 and 2012 and produced by J. Berz
video produced by J. Berz and S. Wisniewski and edited by J. Berz
a split CD by Songs From The Moon and Matilda
a music video (from the moon)
Our good friend, local artist and drummer Steven Gamburd just released this drawing from our record release party/First Stop Friday show at the Ferndale Library. It’s part of an ongoing series of work called “Local Musician Portraits.” Check out the whole set on his facebook page, and also check out his awesome bands Superbomb and Bastion (among others). Thank you Steve!!
Tomorrow we will be celebrating Record Store Day by releasing a set of our first three singles at UHF Records in Royal Oak:
Protest Strategies 7″ w/ CD (“Brave Iranians” / “Phossy Jaw”)
Get To Know Mine CD EP (w/ digital download of “Get To Know Mine” / “Watchin’ The Orioles”)
Morning Sun CD single by Jon From The Moon
plus a button and sticker
for $6
They will have five packages available. Plus they have download cards for the “Get To Know Mine” single for free.
So, for six dollars, you get:
three CDs, a 7″ record, some outerwear for yourself and your vehicle (or refrigerator, or mailbox), and two digital tunes
or for zero dollars, you get:
two digital tunes
We’d also recommend stopping by:
People’s Records (4100 Woodward Ave, Detroit)
Stormy Records (13210 Michigan Ave, Dearborn)
Hello Records (1459 Bagley, Detroit)
Dearborn Records (22000 Michigan, Dearborn)
and John King Books (901 W Lafayette Blvd, Detroit and 22524 Woodward Avenue Ferndale)
because there is no Book Store Day (yet).
music videos and mp3s: releases
or, purchase our records online at the
Simple Living Ferndale House of Records, Publishing and Collectibles
Our new record Protest Strategies is now available for online purchase. Our store will be up and running soon, but if you’d like to order a physical copy in the meantime please email us at songsfromthemoon@gmail.com. The 7″/CD combo is $5 and CD is $3 (shipping extra).
2012!
by Jeff Milo
Totally unbelievably, this showed up in our mailboxes today without warning. We feel honored and privileged to be on the cover of a really cool local community paper. Thank you Patricia O’Blenes and C & G papers, and most especially Kelly Bennett and Jeff Milo from the Ferndale Public Library for letting us rattle your bookshelves. And congrats to Elle Sawa also, our front-pagemate!
We have our first 7″ out! Thank you so much to everyone who came to our show last night at the Ferndale Library. We’re going to take it easy on playing out for a while and focus on new recordings and merch. We have a lot of songs and a lot of ideas. In the meantime please follow us on this site and on our facebook page. Thanks for checking us out!!
by Shaun
more photos of the making of: Read the rest of this entry »
“Brave Iranians” by Songs From The Moon
Jonathan A. Berz: vocals, piano
Ed Sertage: bass, vocals
Ryan Looney: drums, vocals
Shaun Wisniewski: acoustic guitar, vocals
Dan Clark: electric guitar
Julie Wisniewski: vocals
Neil Koziara: vocals
Fred Robinson: vocals
Andrew Kehrig: vocals
Matt Dmits: vocals
produced by Ed Sertage at Woodshed Studios in Oak Park, MI in 2011 and 2012
written by Jonathan A. Berz
video:
edited by J. Berz and S. Wisniewski
produced by J. Berz, S. Wisniewski, Neil Koziara and Fred Robinson
2012
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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5, 2009: THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
MADDOW: After weeks of protests in the streets, defiant crowds, shocking police and paramilitary violence against civilians, and the American people showing a huge amount of un-cynical interest in an international news story that really wasn’t at all about us–today was finally inauguration day in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who the government says was re-elected in the elections held June 12th, was sworn in to office for another presidential term today.
Under heavy security and asphyxiating restrictions on reporting, we’re not able to give you much more detail on the protests of the inauguration today other than to say that we know that protests happened. We know that because–as has been true from the beginning of the antigovernment uprising in Iran–ordinary Iranians are documenting their demonstrations themselves, and then e-mailing them out of the country or uploading them online so the world will know what they’re doing even if reporters aren’t actually allowed to commit journalism inside Iran anymore.
I do want to show you one quick clip that was picked up by “The New York Times” today. It’s just about 20 seconds long. These 20 seconds of tape I think are worth many more than a thousand words in terms of what’s really going on there. The tape starts with a newspaper being held up to the camera–and I don’t read Farsi, but I think it’s so you can see that it’s being shot today. I think it’s today’s newspaper. That’s where it starts-check it out.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
(INAUDIBLE)
(PEOPLE CHANTING)
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: You can see all the people marching. You can see the people also holding up cameras and phones filming at the same time that they’re marching, documenting the protests on their own phones and cameras.
What they’re chanting at the end there–and again my Farsi is a little rusty–but what I’m told people are chanting there at the end is, “Back us up. Back us up. Brave Iranians, back us up.”
They’re calling on bystanders and maybe even police to stand with them in their ongoing protests against the government. And, you know, the protestors did get a little backup today. Two former presidents and dozens of Iranian legislators just didn’t show up for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s inauguration today, and a significant number of legislators who did show up walked out as soon as Ahmadinejad started talking. He’s in trouble.
As several of our Iran expert guests have told us over the last couple months, this thing going on in Iran has a very, very long timeframe to it. But it appears that the uprising lives. We will, of course, stay tuned.
