10 August 2024

MoonShaders !!! (post in English)

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Hi !

It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted something on my website, and I should have done it a while ago, about the new band that I started two years ago, in 2022, and which is called “MoonShaders”.

MoonShaders is composed of:

Thomas Liard: guitars, vocals

Michael Vosswinkel aka “Mike Fosse”: drums, percussion

Myself (“Tim Chesley”): bass, keyboards, loops, vocals

To come back to the history of the group, we met in 2021 with Mike in Maisons-Laffitte which is the group’s headquarters, at the time I had sold a washing machine to Mike, and we realised we had a common passion for music !

We didn’t play with Mike right away, we would first get together to drink beers, talk about music and life, and see the concerts of the bands we had as influences, such as The Pineapple Thief, Porcupine Tree, …

We then decided to set up a trio type band, which was initially meant to sound like some sort of progressive jazz-rock (!), that’s how we met Thomas in 2022, and we started to rehearse together while taking advantage of the rehearsal rooms made available by the House of Rock association in Maisons-Laffitte (thanks again Yann!)

At the beginning we started practising our skills on covers (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis, Bronski Beat, Pearl Jam, …), then we started working on original stuff, and it was pretty simple here : Thomas would bring songs in French, and me in English. Thomas brought some older songs that he had already worked on. While on my side, I wanted to start again from scratch with new original stuff especially for the band, I didn’t want to use some older material stamped “Tim Chesley”.

We quickly found our sound, a kind of pop-rock with touches of progressive rock, enhanced by a slightly electro sound due to the use of the small portable Korg electrokorg XL keyboard and loops recorded with other keyboards on the Boss RC-500 loopstation.

A friend of Thomas, Cédric Pierfed, also came to accompany us on some concerts, adding a slight Irish feel, which can also be found on some tracks of our first EP, “Intemporaire”, released in April 2024, see below on the following platforms :