Teaming up once more with the same killer rhythm section (Ben Street on bass, Dan Weiss on drums) on the critically acclaimed Dark Light (2014), Jonathan Crayford returns with another beautiful album. Recording again with engineer Mike Marciano at Systems Two Studio in New York, East West Moon takes the concentrated minimalism of the previous release a step further, this time with an even greater impressionistic spaciousness.
Jonathan composed the music for East West Moon while living in Berlin. The title is a comment on enmity and commonality, with ‘East-West’ denoting opposing positions and boundaries, and ‘Moon’ denoting that which is commonly shared, unpossessed, and freely available.