Moon Hooch (New York/USA)

The road from playing at Big Apple’s Subway stations to the prestigious Billboard top album charts is a tenacious one, almost as it is beautiful, butonly when you walk the Moon Hooch way. This wacky jazz trio from Brooklyn will present their original, incendiary“cave” music at the opening of this year’s Street Musicians Festival, on 1st September at Petrovaradin’s Suburbium.

Creating a unique musical genre today, in a time when all ideas are almost exhausted, is not easy, but not impossible either, especially when your life’s philosophy is: the more you dedicate yourself to something, the more fruits of your labor you will reap. The same can be said for Moon Hooch, who began their career in 2010, and even as students at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Greenwich Village, primarily played in front of the Metropolitan Museum and in NY’s Subway. From its very start until today, the trio always consisted of Mike Wilbur on altissimo register sax, Wenzl McGowen on lower-tone saxophones, wind synthesizers, and electronics, and drummer James Muschler, while their energetic musical matrix equally owes its respect to jazz, pop and dance music.

Aware that their destiny liesin their hands, the trio introduced serious lifestyle changes, like mediation, yoga, and a vegan diet, in order to increase their focus on music and – the results soon followed. Already with their first album they managed to break out at no. 9 of Billboard’s jazz chart, while their second brainchild earned them the definition of “cave” music. An appearance on the popular Australian TV sitcom Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year ensued, after which performances in streets became a thing of the past, and everything they would later do became – history. The same can be expected from a pure spectacle of sound they have in store for the opening of the Street Musicians Festival!