Just posted some recent LIVE recordings to Bandcamp

listen to these and other fine audio works here:
www.3moons.bandcamp.com

!!!!!! HAYFORK, CA !!!!!

BLACK WATER SNAKE LIVES IN THE GRASS. New Year New Blood.

Full album available from Psyop Recordings on tape cassette or digital download at 3moons.bandcamp.com

3 Moons "REMOTE CONTROL SPHINX" tour APRIL 2013

WEST COAST USA "Doctor Anthropo's Curious Curated Specimen Library" proudly presents: American West Coast Live Experience "SPECIAL LOCATIONS" MAJICKAL MUSIC INVOKATIONS GENERATOR POWERED AND VENUE ENGAGEMENTS featuring SERPENT CALLING REED VIBRATIONS, RHODES TUNING FORK TINES PIANO TEMPLE, ANALOG SYNTH DETONATOR, FORKED TONGUE HUMAN VOICE AND DISTORED STRINGS OF STEEL by Jefferson Zurna and Kinko Malada SEE THE CALENDAR TO THE RIGHT

3 Moons in Graham's top 10 of 2012 for REMOTE OUTPOSTS!!! Thanks Graham.

check out  REMOTE OUTPOSTS

VISITOR "III"

AVAILIBLE NOW FROM LIGHTEN UP SOUNDS ... "Let yourself drown. Visitor have established themselves around Minneapolis as an undeniable powerhouse, with their singular brand of pounding riff worship and massive double drummer attack. Featuring Andie Mazorol (Myrrh, Mother Of Fire), Graham Baldwin (Bloodwall, 2208), and Jefferson Zurna (3 Moons, Gili Gili Men). Gigantic guitar wash and crunch, waves of echo and relentless pummeling rhythm. Have no fear, this is NOT bass laden drone bore, but crushing and deeply psychedelic doom rock anthems of the highest order. Two heavy side-long improv monoliths for these frightening modern days. Real time duplicated black shell cassette with black and brown labels comes packed in double sided fold out J-card featuring antique sepia tone photograph in a clear Norelco case. Like the ocean."

3 Moons @ Hair Hole

3 Moons live at the Hair Hole in Columbia, MO as a 3 peice, featuring Dena Kinko Malada on the Farfisa and David Verbuc on the gongs. A long performance here of "Mirrored Minarets" from Well Dweller. 7/9/2012

Psyop Interview on Slovenian Radio

David Verbuc, PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at UC Davis interviews Jefferson Zurna on the topic of "Spiritual Experimental Music Scenes in the U.S." for 'Radio Student' college radio out of Ljubljana. The page is in Slovenian so have some fun with the translator robot or just listen to the 2 hour show featuring lots of music by the likes of Ancestral Diet, Fake Hospital, 3 Moons, Impractical Cockpit, Snuff Jazz, White Gourd, Carnal Torpor, C-Section 8, Million Brazilians, and more. http://www.radiostudent.si/glasba/dj-grafiti/spiritualna-eksperimentalna-scena-v-zda

KULT UR O MAN COR videos (3 Moons)

'Almanac of the Dead' review

(from http://jsheaven.blogspot.com/2012/02/3-moons-almanac-of-dead.html)

Alamanac of the Dead' is like a diary, chronicling the first five months after violent death; full of sand and whispers and scorpions.

3 Moons is the solo project of Jefferson Zurna, who i became aware of with his work with Fake Hospital, who make the best post-Gysin Morrocan dervish worship that i have yet witnessed in person. Imagine my incredulity when encountering 3 Moons, and finding this irrational, out-of-body cosmic blues. All right folks, i would never utter these words without complete sincerity, but i have truly never heard anything like 3 Moons; i mean, i've heard similar ilk. At times it rubs elbows with psych/free-folk, there's definitely an improvisatory air at times. There's a creepy, reclusive Jandek vibe, (which for some reason, is the highest mark of recommendation i can give right now). But Almanac of the Dead is all of these things, at the same time, with even a splash of early N'awlins jazz, at times. The impression i am left with, which makes it all the more surreal, is i am reminded of pre-war blues, field recordings from dark hollers, when acoustic instruments had not yet been tamed, and confined to 12-bar cages.

The acoustic guitar is the spine of this record, and Zurna's really a damn fine guitarist, and song-writer too, that is just making this otherworldly ethereal music. I am in awe of artists who put such care and craft into left-field creations; the world is a stranger and more magickal place because of it. These acoustic barn-burners are accentuated with unexpected textures like sci fi warbles, frogs croaking, waves lapping. Almanac of the Dead will take you places, far far off the map, off the grid, beyond words, beyond linear thought. You better pray you have a guide book, cuz otherwise yr gonna get eaten by a jackal-demon.

Zurna is also the closest living inheritor of the Burroughs/Gysin cut-up hashish mysticism that i have met in person. His music, and his writing, is imbued with those stark jump-cuts and pulp mysticism, gunslingers and mummies and hashish and the afterlife. I truly get the feeling that he lives in his own goddamn world, and i want in! He has seen things, known things.

At the end of the day, all that matters is the sonics, and Almanac is an enjoyable listen, something for the hermeticist and the traditionalist alike. The guitars, the clarinets, the banjos, all glowingly recorded. The voice; plaintiff, heartfelt. You can really get a sense of 3 Moons Kansas City warmth, humility. His music is sweet, mournful, heart-felt, real, and really fucking strange.

The more i peer into the cracks of the Fake Hospital axis; 3 moons, white gourd, million brazillions, probably others i haven't heard yet, i am slightly in awe that i know these people.

Almanac of the Dead is available as a free download, from 3 Moons bandcamp, and can also be had as a cassette or CD-R.

FAKE HOSPITAL (Corum + Jefferson Zurna)

Live @ the Facement, Sunny Brae, CA (Arcata) 11/29/20011



@ Teatro de Psychomachia, Seattle, WA 11/26/2011

KULT UR O MAN COR

KULT UR O MAN COR was recorded during a brief and bizarre hitch-hiking trip back to Minneapolis from my yearly duties at the sugar beet harvest in Wahpeton. It was recorded to 4 track cassette, fermenting mostly electric guitar. What do the various sleeping mirrors of imaginary skies portend? Some of the music I composed for "MILKING THE CLOUDS" appears on this cassette in expanded / digested form, along with some rather psychedelic improvisations and incantations.

hear / download at 3moons.bandcamp.com

Driftless Zone / Ritual Eye video by Jefferson Zurna feauturing animated images from Carl Jung's alchemical codex: The Red Book

FAKE HOSPITAL PORTLAND SHOW REVIEW

This fellow had some kind words on the Portland stop! check them out on his blog, j'sheaven

HERMETIC TRIO

out now on LIGHTEN UP SOUNDS!

"Massive steel vessels reverberate and rumble as splintered reeds puncture ear drums. The Hermetic Trio consists of Bill Doob (of Karamazov Tapes, Million Brazilions) Jefferson Zurna (The Alters, 3 Moons), and a mysterious third member known only as “Adam”. Crude and inspired improvisations recorded in an underground cavern, deep beneath Providence, Rhode Island. Huge and abrasive weeping tones ooze out of the dueling reeds in a fierce open ended battle of zurna vs. clarinet, while rhythmic room tone pounding and stomping hammers it all home. Obtuse, and all the better for it. Both of these two side long tracks are equal parts field recording and sporadic composition. Real time duplicated clear shell cassette with black lacquer-sealed labels comes packaged with a full color double sided fold out cardstock J-card featuring a shadowy original photograph by Jefferson himself, shot in the deep subterranean location. Jingling, bleeding freaks and non-jazz freedom for the socially retarded." - LIGHTEN UP SOUNDS

read the review from CASSETTE GODS

3 WALLS

RADIO 1 / RADIO 2 is out now on LIGHTEN UP SOUNDS!

"Doozie pair of sessions here. Three Walls is a collaborative duo project between Jefferson Zurna (3 Moons, Hermetic Trio, The Alters) and Graham Baldwin (Bloodwall, Visitor, Theives) laying down pulsing static and noxious fumes. Released collaboratively with 2208 tapes, these slabs of long form abstract improv are like a heavily medicated walkie-talkie party packed into a small dark closet. Wave after wave of reeking weatherband gurgle and the soft luminescence of liquid slowly evaporating into invisible vapor. Real time duplicated cassette made available in two versions, both packaged with a double sided hand numbered card stock J-card featuring the iconic Three Walls parallelogram logo on a stark bright white field. 20 copies available as opaque white shell C62 cassettes, 20 copies available as translucent red shell C60 cassettes. Both editions come with matching black and white labels in a clear Norelco case. Ideal accompaniment for attempted loss of consciousness or a nonchalant trudge through knee deep molasses." -LIGHTEN UP SOUNDS

A CALL TO ORDER

Autocephalous Paracletes of the glorious potentials!
Our entities return, roost upon the thrones
defile the Altars of Insanity
ESOTERIC CALIPHs! disseminate Illuminatives to unite the adepts
Holy Was, and Holy Is, still the delusion is studied
We shall study "The Approaches"
The will of the Orders of Freedom
Bring Face, give names and interpenetrate!
Accordance, the rains of peonies and light
Inner rains upon the thrones of freedom, interpenetration
with Quatrains, our Spaceship, we Dispel
Heinous manifestation of the satanic temple planet

We’re mutating the Galaxy.

Milking the Clouds is an avant-garde sci-fiction/science truth play about the "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program" which I co-wrote with Alina Brenneman. It's playing Sunday September 18, Thursday September 22, and Friday September 23 at the Paper Moose at 945 Broadway in Northeast Minneapolis at 8pm each night. Musical guests Night Crusade and RVIVR will be featured Sunday night. DJ Diarrhea (Jackey Beckey) will psych you out Friday.

"The show reveals a secret government project to control the weather, an evil band of mythical Harpies, paranoid survivalists, a reversal of the poles, an original score, and James Jordan as a hippie just trying to relax. Part paranoid-transcendental comedy, part psychedelic vaudeville, part public service announcement, this show has something for the whole family." - Savannah Reich