Harley from Broken Arts in conversation with Emm from Stereo Moon

Who are Stereo Moon?
Emm Smith - writer/director
Bruce MacKinnon - conductor
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I seem to recall conversing with you at a show last spring where you said that Stereo Moon was on a bit of a hiatus. Since then you’ve played Broken Arts Fest, First Fridays, a couple other shows, and released a digital single. What changed?
I found another member for the band. Stereo Moon was never supposed to be a solo thing. Unless someone asked me to play, I wasn’t aggressively looking for shows. Stereo Moon has been a 24/7, 365 days thing since 1999 so it depends what day you’re talking to me. It can change by the hour.

Your single, ‘In Effigy To Scenic Happenings, We Applaud,’ released this summer is the first thing you’ve put out since 2005, other than contributions to a 2007 Inbreds tribute album and a 2009 Eric’s Trip tribute disc. What happened? Are we going to have to wait until 2017 for your next release?
I have five albums written and ready to be recorded (of which consists a trilogy finished in 2004). They will all contain elaborate arrangements, instrumentation and production. If you can’t find enough musicians or money to record, you keep writing and refining. I don’t want to be Bob Dylan; I want to be Brian Wilson.

What have you been listening to lately?
Mostly underground American music of all types and scouring the internet for rare or forgotten psych albums. Recently I’ve gone back to an old staple, a band called The Velvet Underground.

And what can people expect from Stereo Moon at Broken Arts: Soundtracked 18?
Ironically a nice mellow or electric solo set. I may pull out some old songs that I don’t play live much.

Stereo Moon plays Broken Arts: Soundtracked 18 on September 23. Visit http://StereoMoon.com/ to download the new single.