"Moon Trent: an American singer/songwriter from San Francisco.
C. Moon Trent (born in Turlock, California) is an American singer and songwriter who hails from San Francisco. Now living in Denair, CA. He is a gay Mexican-American who resides with his partner and creative associate David Cole. He manages timmi-kat ReCoRDS, a Californian independent micro-label dedicated to releasing music from mostly obscure but predominantly gay and lesbian (queer) artists.
Moon Trent has recorded full-length albums with the bands Pale, Brown-Star, The Visitors Kimberly, and The JULIAN before launching a solo career in the new millennium. His first solo offering, a dance version of Hard Candy Christmas (originally by Dolly Parton) was released on 12" vinyl in the United Kingdom in 2001 while Moon lived there. Moon also appears from time-to-time on stage, in television, and on radio as a unique San Franciscan personality. He appeared on television in 2004 during E!'s airing of the Howard Stern Show live from Las Vegas. source
MOON OVER ENGLAND Former Modesto Organization of Bands founder Moon Trent is going to England, where he will promote his new single, "Hard Candy Christmas." Trent, who lives in the Bay Area, says the song is available for free download on Napster. Find the song by using the Napster site search and searching for Moon Trent and "Hard Candy Christmas." Trent has a new Web site: http://oocities.com/msericakane/moon.htm. - Published on December 1, 2000 by The Modesto Bee (CA)
If you had the guts to forsake reality for so-called fantasy, would you take your L.A. slumming to the Land of Oz and check in on a Brown Star performance in the Wizard's castle? Just as I thought; you wouldn't because you don't know the name. Brown Star is a calling, to all you waving tulips, lost in the Santa Ana winds. Yes, you have Brown Star who OutFitted and FixedOut himself on Howard Stern's show proudly proclaiming his Gay heritage and upbringing. So you say you always forget to set your VCR to record Stern's show, falling asleep too early, so you can do your commute to work in the morning. Well, you're missing the best the media has to offer unless you check in on MP3 or your local alternative music shop for Brown Star's DUE DAMAGE CD. The CD itself is a multimedia explosion of cerebral urban angst, reverie and conclusive agreements ( Don't Look Back ) found in the collective landscape of Brown Star's ever-changing mindset. If it weren't for their evolving inner landscapes they'd be just another set of artists stuck in the grind that so many Angelenos refer to as "trying to make it/break in" to the music biz. Yet, unlike so many L.A. bands, Brown Star has Art as their priority, which is precisely why they are unspeakably nocturnal in their appentency. Moon Trent, lead vocalist with time on his side, fronts the group with a flurry of seasonal discourses. Ranging from the temperature driven, A Bee's Dream, sounding like Lenny Bruce just shot up 3 of Lou Reed's genes, to the pop sweet Invitation/Something's Happening ( two songs that move elegantly from one to the next ) which in a T - Rexism moment exemplify Desire in it's fullest sense by calling to the wallflower, the god, the mystery, to make a fucking move. In giving you the invite to move into another dimension, where to halt the bleeding river of tears is menuized, you are asked to order that tapeworm known as Desire. It is here, in this opiated field where you, the static phlegmatic wrestle to an awakening of bravery that is found in a promise of solid bliss. Something's Happening has an amazing opening where it's got to be the departed Andy Lund's cello, alluding to a breathful season of solar plexus awakenings/furtherings while the vocals tell you "SEX IS A MUST HAVE"....down and in it, for every minutes worth. Brown Star claims it's influences as early alternative and current indie bands. I must unabashedly say that given this sort of community inspired set of sorties, it's pretty clear that these guys are looking to develop their own voice further without the prefabricated corporate round off, unlike so many seeking recognition. Most artists want and need fame. Most artists though never ask themselves, what would they do with the goods once delivered. Brown Star clearly has this category wrapped up. They know what and how they will use their recognition and contributions in post -Modern culture. This comes across clearly in the music and lyrics, where honest YET sensitive Iggy-ish touchdowns of boredom and "what's up Doc?", issues forth benevolence to all those hundreds of thousands of awake folks ( take notice Exene ) who live and work on the future with the premise that it will always remain in chaos and THAT is where our Art is found and made. As of this writing, apparently Andy Lund has left the band. This doesn't matter. What is important I think, is that whatever these guys do next, when given this recording of DUE DAMAGE, the use of a cello, marimbas Brian Jones - style, perhaps, a digitized harp electronica, maybe, everyday sounds as "the beep tone" in one of the songs now, and/or any other classic or tech instrument used here and there be honorably perpetuated. This instrument-concept use on the recording provides specific accents to the varied moods of the songs which does you in subconsciously when you later find yourself humming a little part of one of the songs, and, not even thinking about it until you've suddenly realized you're humming some of their hullabaloo or dirge moments. You want engaging? Pick up this one. The latest news has been that Moon Trent is putting together his own orchestra called the Visitors Kimberly. As far as who is in this creation is unknown and I don't know if any of the same musicians from Brown Star are working in any way with Visitors Kimberly.
