Anenon – Moons Melt Milk Light LP
While previous solo albums set Anenon’s tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and piano against a backdrop of electronic instrumentation and shifting ambient textures, Moons Melt Milk Light strips all of that away leaving just Simon’s raw, emotive improvisations alongside a few field recordings of gentle dinner conversation, crickets, birds, and water flowing.
‘Moons Melt Milk Light’ is direct, efficient, and unwavering in its immediacy. Anenon departs from the electronics of previous works, and embarks on a reductive, almost entirely acoustic approach consisting of piano, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and field recordings. All of the music was improvised with everything recorded as either a first or second take with no edits. Any layering happened fast and in the moment, and yet the sonic architecture of the whole feels both planned and refined.