Austin-based musician Jeffrey Moon brings a fresh approach to the singer-songwriting tradition. Primarily using a nylon-string guitar and a ‘no-picks’ approach, Jeffrey’s interweaving vocal and guitar lines lend a unique contribution to the Austin scene and the songwriting genre. With over 20 years of gigging and composing, Moon combines his love of hip hop, Latin, jazz, folk, drum and bass, and classical music into a collection of songs being released in June 2010, named Conscious Pilot.
But Moon’s past holds a wider range of experiences than the ‘musician’ moniker implies, and it shows in his lyrics and compositional maturity. Before relocating to Austin in 2008, Moon spent years on the pavement working with people from a wide range of backgrounds, recently earning a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work. Always the entrepreneur, Jeffrey launched a non-profit agency pairing artists with young adults in the foster-care system when he was 22 and now helps run a small boutique software design company in Austin, Texas.
All of these experiences, coupled with a wide range of musical influence, make for a collection of songs compelling and deceptively simple, with earnest lyrics that reveal the beauty in sadness and the common roots of our Human experience.
“Collectively, “Conscious Pilot” leaves the listener feeling contemplatively buoyant and constructively existential. His wide range of influences coalesce in ways that make the final product something completely his, always being built on elegantly simple riffs on his guitar. “
Aaron Walther – Jupiter Index
“Moon fulfills his promise of bringing something fresh to the songwriter tradition not only musically, but also lyrically, conveying the same existential themes through a variety of mediums.”
Aaron Walther – Jupiter Index
“His CD plays beautifully, melodically and captures the listener in its sweet simplicity.”
hux – AustinDaze.com
“Conscious Pilot” is an intelligent mix of jazz, alt country and pop music. All of the ten songs are clever and original compositions. …magnificent album.
Johan Schoenmakers – altcountryforum.nl
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