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Satyricon: Moonlit Nights (1983)
Introduction to Shepherd Moons
In 2000, I decided to re-establish Satyricon/Shepherd Moons.
Almost 10 years had passed after the split of the last Satyricon group in 1991.
At that time, I was sick and tired of stone-age rock music and sloppy song
writing like in the 1980’ies. But in 1994, something marvellous happened:
Nirvana. Unfortunately, it took me 6 years to understand that Nirvana had
revitalized rock music. In 2000, at long last I finally decided to go back to
my old trade, playing rock songs and bass guitar. So I went looking for
musicians. And a new band name!
A Norwegian bunch of death metal madmen had used our name
Satyricon in 1991, so I had to come up with a new name for the band. After some
lengthy discussions, we settled on “Shepherd Moons” named after the two moons
keeping the stability of Saturn’s rings. The planet Saturn also sounded a bit
like Satyricon.
In 2001, the times had changed. New generations of arrogant young
musicians with a sky-high self-esteem and copycat songs dominated the music
scene. It was not the liberal 60’ies and 70’ies any more. Over a depressing
2-months period, I had several auditions for singers, guitarists and drummers.
The technically good musicians were plenty but most of them were unable to
follow the flow of the music without showing off all the time. On top of that,
many of the young musicians panicked, when they realized, that the band would
be a mixed age band. After two months, I was about to give up, when I met T.,
our first singer. She was an intellectual girl with a fantastic voice. Shortly
after T. joined the band, a guitar player Morten Jakobsen and a drummer Adam
Dicker were found, and the band went into existence.
Musicians and a new name was only the first step in the creation
of a new rock band in spite of me giving up on rock music back in 1991.
Satyricon of course had a long list of songs from 1974-1992. But I soon
realized that even a long list of songs would not be enough to secure new songs
of high quality for the band repertoire. Since the 1980’ies, I had only written
songs, when they came banging loudly on my door. I never sat down to write 12
songs for a new album. This was my way of writing rock songs for almost 20
years. This changed in 2001, when I launched a new tradition of writing 15
songs each year in the month of July in Finland. The first song collection was
a huge success seen from a songwriter’s point of view, and the tradition is now
well established, adding 2-3 new, good songs to the band repertoire every year.
This is the basis of the new Satyricon, the Shepherd Moons.
The Band Family
Satyricon had always been a project band. This is also the case
with Shepherd Moons. After one year, T. left the band, and we rushed to get a
new singer. Thomas Vilhelm replaced T. in 2003, but decided to become a
journalist at the end of the year and left too. In 2004, we started working
with the singer Jesper Brix who is still with us. In 2005, the sax player Morten
Hansen became an associate member of Shepherd Moons, much to our delight.
Flemming Olsen plays the drums. In 2006, Gitte Lund joined us to share the lead
vocals with Jesper and me.
The Music of the Band
The songs of Shepherd Moons can be divided into four categories:
Songs from Nekropolis back in 1974, original Satyricon songs from 1974-1980,
newer Satyricon songs from 1989-1992 and the new breed of songs from 2001 and
later. The Nekropolis songs in our repertoire sound a bit like Satyricon, which
is not surprising, as most of the Nekropolis songs were written in the same
year as the first Satyricon songs. The old Satyricon songs came in many
different styles, but the ones, which were chosen for the records, were mostly
advanced rock music or piano ballads. The Satyricon songs from 1989 to 1992
were love ballads with a jazz/blues feeling. The new songs from 2001 and
forward are primarily funk, blues, folk and Rock’n’roll, but include a number
of odd songs like At 25 and Pilot Light. All in all, a wide spectrum of styles
held together by an intellectual, sometimes mystic, angle to life, love and
politics. Blues, ballads, funk and Rock’n’roll are the soul of our music.
Recordings
Shepherd Moons has been recording in 2003 (Bicycle Craze), 2004
(Puzzled), 2005 (Quicksilver Boy) 2006 (Home) and 2007 (Blues). We are using
the ARK studio
near the premises of NORDISC in Brønshøj, Copenhagen. Kristian Dalgaard is our engineer
and sound wizard.
Henrik W. Gade. 13 May
2007
Visit www.shepherdmoons.com to read the lyrics and the
detailed history of Shepherd Moons/Satyricon.
Discography Shepherd Moons
(Satyricon)
Blues
(2007)
Home
(2006)
Nothing You May Say (2006)
stonewall
(2006)
Quicksilver Boy (2005)
Puzzled
(2004)
Bicycle
Craze (2003)
The
Ballroom (1990)
Moonlit Nights (1983)
Tavshed
(1982)
Short Biography of Shepherd Moons
In
October 1974, the bass player and songwriter Henrik W. Gade started writing a
row of new songs for his dream band ”Satyricon” with quite another profile than
the Danish romantic national rock of Nekropolis. A band inspired by American
Rock’n’roll and blues with texts playing with quotes from the rock history and
satirical attacks, a bit like what Elvis Costello did a couple of years later –
it must have been in the air at the time. The project band that still exists
and thrives today, had an over 7 years long birth, but finally made their first
album “Tavshed” (in Danish) in 1982 with the music to Gade’s first rock
musical.
Satyricon – now renamed Shepherd Moons –
has had many guest musicians during their more than 30 years of existence; to
mention a few Tonny Biilgreen, Morten Jakobsen and Michael Carlsen on guitar,
Peter Paluch, Henrik Ratje and Flemming Olsen on drums and Lisbet Hess, Sidsel From,
Louise Rasmussen, Peter Bom, T., Thomas Wilhelm, Jesper Brix and Gitte Lund on
vocals.
See www.shepherdmoons.com to read the history of the
band, and see the lyrics and sheet music.
Satyricon
1990:
Louise Rasmussen, H.W. Gade and Tonny Biilgreen
Technician
Kristian Dalsgaard and producer H.W. Gade 2005
www.arkstudio.dk
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NEW Shepherd Moons:
ISBN
9788791995187 |
First released on the
NORDISC Digital Books™ label in 2007. Producer: H.W. Gade Technician: Kristian
Dalsgaard. Recorded in the Ark Studio, Copenhagen. Band: Gitte Lund and Jesper Brix vocal, H.W. Gade
vocal, bass guitar, double bass, piano and MIDI arrangements, Michael Carlsen
guitar, Flemming Olsen drums. |
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1. Seacruise IV |
Jesper Brix vocal,
Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade, bass guitar and piano, Flemming Olsen
drums. |
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2. Demolition Man |
Gitte Lund vocal,
Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade, distorted bass guitar, Flemming Olsen
drums. |
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3. Too Close to be Friends |
Gitte Lund vocal,
Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade bass guitar and piano, Flemming Olsen
drums. |
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4. Farmer Blues |
H.W. Gade vocal,
Michael Carlsen guitar, Flemming Olsen drums, Stefan Piesnack guitar. |
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5. Heroes of the Road |
Gitte Lund vocal, Michael
Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade bass guitar and piano, Flemming Olsen drums. |
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6. Wrong Number Blues |
Gitte Lund and H.W.
Gade vocals, Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade double bass and piano,
Flemming Olsen drums. |
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7. Echelon Blues |
Gitte Lund vocal,
Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade bass guitar, Flemming Olsen drums. |
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8. Blues for Old Acquaintance |
Gitte Lund vocal,
Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade piano, Flemming Olsen drums. |
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9. Schizophrenia |
H.W. Gade vocal, Michael
Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade bass guitar and piano, Flemming Olsen drums. |
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10. It is the truth |
Gitte Lund and H.W.
Gade vocals, Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade double bass and piano,
Flemming Olsen drums. |
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11. New York Boogie
Woogie |
Gitte Lund vocal,
Michael Carlsen guitar and choir, H.W. Gade double bass and piano, Flemming
Olsen drums. |
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12. Cliffhanger |
Gitte Lund vocal,
Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade double bass and piano, Flemming Olsen
drums, Stefan Piesnack guitar. |
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13. Drej 000 for hjælp |
Gitte Lund and Jesper Brix vocals, Michael Carlsen guitar, H.W. Gade bass guitar, Flemming Olsen drums. |
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NEW Shepherd Moons:
ISBN
9788791995460 |
First released on the
NORDISC Digital Books™ label in 2007. Producer: H.W. Gade Technician:
Kristian Dalsgaard. Recorded in the Ark Studio, Copenhagen. Band: Gitte Lund and Jesper Brix vocal, H.W. Vocal,
bass and MIDI arrangements, Michael Carlsen guitar, Flemming Olsen drums |
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1.
Rocket Science |
Gitte Lund and Jesper
Brix vocal, H.W. Gade bass guitar, Michael Carlsen guitar and choir, Flemming
Olsen drums. |
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2.
Into the Sorrow |
H.W. Gade vocal and
bass guitar, Michael Carlsen guitar and choir, Gitte Lund choir. |
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Shepherd Moons:
ISBN
87-88619-71-3 |
First released on the
NORDISC Digital Books™ label in 2006. Producer: H.W. Gade Technician:
Kristian Dalsgaard. Recorded in the Ark Studio, Copenhagen. Band: Gitte Lund, Ea Gemmer Haastrup and Jesper
Brix vocal, H.W. Gade vocal, bass, piano and MIDI arrangements, Morten
Jakobsen guitar and MIDI arrangement on “Choose your Way”, Flemming Olsen
drums |
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1. Stonewall |
H.W. Gade vocal, Cor
Cantus directed by Ellen Hess Thaysen, Morten Jakobsen guitar |
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2. Nothing you may say |
Jesper Brix vocal,
choir Gitte Lund and Ea-Gemmer-Haastrup, H.W. Gade bass and piano, Morten
Jakobsen guitar, Flemming Olsen drums |
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3. Rendezvous Berlin |
H.W. Gade vocal, bass
and piano, choir Ea-Gemmer-Haastrup, Morten Jakobsen guitar, Flemming Olsen
drums |
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4. Embracing You |
Gitte Lund vocal,
H.W. Gade bass and piano, Morten Jakobsen guitar, Flemming Olsen drums |
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5. Home |
H.W. Gade vocal, bass
and piano, choir Ea-Gemmer-Haastrup, Morten Jakobsen guitar, |
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6. Lost |
Jesper Brix vocal,
choir Gitte Lund and Ea-Gemmer-Haastrup, H.W. Gade bass, Flemming Olsen drums |
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7. Choose Your Way |
Jesper Brix vocal and
guitar, Morten Jakobsen acoustic guitar, H.W. Gade and Kristian Dalsgaard
congas. |
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8. Broken Circles |
H.W. Gade and Ea Gemmer-Haastrup
vocal, H.W. Gade bass and acoustic guitar, Morten Jakobsen guitars. |
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8. Two + Two |
Gitte Lund vocal,
Morten Jakobsen guitar |
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10. Full Moon |
Ea-Gemmer-Haastrup vocal,
H.W. Gade bass and acoustic guitar, Morten Jakobsen guitar, Flemming Olsen
drums |
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11. At 25 |
H.W. Gade vocal and
piano, Morten Jakobsen guitar. |
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12. Pilot Light |
Gitte Lund vocal,
H.W. Gade bass, piano and choir, Morten Jakobsen guitar. |
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Shepherd
Moons:
ISBN
87-88619-36-2 |
First released on the
NORDISC Digital Books™ label in 2006. Producer: H.W. Gade Technician:
Kristian Dalsgaard. Recorded in the Ark Studio, Copenhagen. Band: Gitte Lund, Ea Gemmer-Haastrup and Jesper
Brix vocal, H.W. Gade vocal, bass, piano and MIDI arrangements, Morten
Jakobsen guitar and MIDI arrangement on “Choose your Way”, Flemming Olsen
drums |
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1.
Nothing You May Say |
Jesper Brix vocal,
choir Gitte Lund and Ea-Gemmer-Haastrup, H.W. Gade bass and piano, Morten
Jakobsen guitar, Flemming Olsen drums |
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2.
Lost |
Jesper Brix vocal,
choir Gitte Lund and Ea-Gemmer-Haastrup, H.W. Gade bass, Flemming Olsen drums |
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3.
Pilot Light |
Gitte Lund vocal,
H.W. Gade bass, piano and choir, Morten Jakobsen guitar. |
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ISBN
87-88619-83-4 |
First released on the
NORDISC Digital Books™ label in 2006. Producer: H.W. Gade Technician:
Kristian Dalsgaard. Recorded in the Ark Studio, Copenhagen. Band: Gitte Lund, Ea Gemmer-Haastrup and Jesper
vocal Brix H.W. Gade vocal, bass, piano and MIDI arrangements, Morten
Jakobsen guitar and MIDI arrangement on “Choose your Way”, Flemming Olsen
drums |
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1. Stonewall |
H.W. Gade vocal, Cor
Cantus directed by Ellen Hess Thaysen, Morten Jakobsen guitar |
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2. Embracing You |
Gitte Lund vocal,
H.W. Gade bass and piano, Morten Jakobsen guitar, Flemming Olsen drums |
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3. At 25 |
H.W. Gade vocal and
piano, Morten Jakobsen guitar. |
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Shepherd
Moons:
ISBN
87-88619-27-3 |
First released on the NORDISC Digital Books™ label in 2005. Producer: H.W. Gade Technician: Kristian Dalsgaard. Recorded in the Ark
Studio, Copenhagen. Band: Jesper Brix, vocal H.W. Gade guitar, bass,
piano and MIDI arrangements, Morten Hansen sax, Paul Felbo bass, Flemming
Olsen drums |
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1. Quicksilver Boy |
Jesper Brix vocal H.W.
Gade guitar, Paul Felbo bass, Flemming Olsen drums |
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2. Bad soldiers |
H.W. Gade vocal and
guitar Morten Hansen sax, Paul Felbo bass, Flemming Olsen drums |
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3. Soul Mate |
Jesper Brix vocal
H.W. Gade guitar and MIDI, Morten Hansen sax and percussion, Paul Felbo bass,
Flemming Olsen drums |
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4. The River |
H.W. Gade vocal,
guitar, piano and MIDI |
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5. Restless Boy |
H.W. Gade vocal,
bass, guitar and MIDI, Morten Hansen Sax |
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6. Tiger Baby |
Jesper Brix vocal H.W.
Gade guitar and piano, Paul Felbo bass, Flemming Olsen drums |
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7. Beyond the Border |
H.W. Gade vocal,
guitar, piano and MIDI |
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8. The Ballroom |
Jesper Brix vocal
H.W. Gade piano, Morten Hansen sax, Paul Felbo bass |
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9. Pitbull City |
Jesper Brix vocal,
H.W. Gade guitar, Paul Felbo bass, Flemming Olsen drums, |
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10. Sexy Ivy |
H.W. Gade vocal,
guitar and MIDI |
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11. Shadow Dancing |
Jesper Brix vocal and
guitar, Paul Felbo bass |
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12. Rasende dreng |
Jesper Brix vocal H.W.
Gade guitar, Paul Felbo bass, Flemming Olsen drums |
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13. Broen |
H.W. Gade vocal,
guitar, piano and MIDI |
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14. Dødsorgasme |
H.W. Gade vocal,
guitar, piano and MIDI |
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ISBN
87-88619-87-7 |
First released on the
NORDISC Digital Books™ label in 2004 Producer: H.W. Gade Technician: Kristian
Dalsgaard Recorded in the Ark Studio, Copenhagen. Band: Jesper Brix vocal H.W. Gade vocal, bass,
piano and MIDI arrangements, Morten Jakobsen guitar, Paul Felbo bass |
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1. Love's So Easy |
Jesper Brix vocal,
Paul Felbo bass |
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2. The last Love
Affair |
Jesper Brix vocal,
Paul Felbo bass |
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3. Exactly |
Jesper Brix vocal,
Paul Felbo bass |
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4. Teach me to
Speak My Soul |
H.W. Gade vocal, Paul
Felbo bass |
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5. Claustrophobia |
H.W. Gade vocal, Paul
Felbo bass |
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6. Merry-go-round |
H.W. Gade vocal, Paul
Felbo bass |
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7. Trust |
H.W. Gade vocal,
MIDI bass |
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8. Football |
Jesper Brix vocal,
Sound Effects: Morten |
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