06/06/2025
JOHN JOHANNA — NEW MOON PANGS
Out now: the first single and title track from the new album (12th September 2025)
New Moon Pangs: Reflects on inspiration’s ebb and flow, like the moon, and a thanksgiving for a creatively fruitful phase after false starts.
With New Moon Pangs, John Johanna presents his first full-fledged studio album of acoustic folk rock, marking an exciting return to musical and poetic roots. The album features grooving country gospel, a driving drone-folk setting of a 17th-century radical ballad, an elegiac dream of a South American master, and a shimmering evocation of a vanishing world of visionary greenwood ecstatics.
Recorded over two days at London’s Total Refreshment Centre with James Howard (electric bass), Ursula Russell (drums), and producer Kristian Craig Robinson the album was finalised in Johanna’s rural Norfolk home studio, IMZIM. The result balances raw, live energy with intimate, lyrical depth.
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