LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Idiosyncratic, mad genius of early British R&R, producer Joe Meek is considered to be one of the most important independent producers of the early sixties. This album, recorded in 1960, was one of Meek’s more extreme projects. It was a concept album, which took as its subject matter “life on the moon”- with each song dedicated to one of the myriad populations that Meek suspected inhabited the moon’s different regions (complete with a description of these inhabitants in the liner notes). Using clavioline, Hawaiian guitar and early electronic sound effects, Meek created futuristic sounding aural tapestries linked to a time when we still believed that the moon was populated by little green men. Released at the time as only a 4 track EP, the complete work has finally been restored and released with all 12 original tracks.