Mooncake - Acoustic (album)

Mooncake is a russian post-rock band which I'm told is pretty popular over there. Formed in early 2006 the band quickly established itself as a prominent instrumental act in Russia. The band have extensively toured throughout Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic countries and even China. So far they've released one album titled Lagrange Points (2008) and one EP Zaris/Cast The Route. Their latest release comes in the form of a acoustic record which includes new arrangements of some of their best known tracks. Mooncake is a truly fantastic band and probably one of the best things to come out of Russia so it's no wonder that they've shared stage with bands such God Is An Astronaut, Explosions In The Sky, Caspian and Russian Circles. The acoustic album and dvd contains footage from the band's performance for Rain TV and below you can see a glimpse of that. "Novorossiysk 1968" is just one of the songs the band performed live. I had the chance to receive both the digital album and the dvd footage and I can say that these new versions sound outstanding. Simply put Mooncake did a great job arranging and performing the acoustic versions. We definitely need this band to come down here in Bulgaria as the interest in that kind of music is growing and I'm sure many will be more than happy to see this band performing live in Sofia. Just to get an idea how good this band actually is I'm posting their first album. Hopefully I'm gonna see them one day live.