Moonbeam (band) explained

Moonbeam is a Russian electronic music project, founded in 2003 by brothers Vitaly and Pavel Khvaleev.[1] The name was coined by one of the project's singers, Chris Lunsford.

Biography

Vitaly (born September 17, 1979) and Pavel (born May 27, 1984) Hvaleev were born in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia. Pavel's mother is Armenian.

Early work

As students, Pavel and Vitaly began to create tracks, remixes and arrangements using all sorts of samples, and with the availability of computers pursued this more intensely.

Career

2000s

In 2003, American vocalist Chris Lunsford came to Nizhny Novgorod; the brothers recorded the track "Raven Gypsy" with him, and then created 2 more works: "Consumption" and "Forgotten Grey". At this time the brothers took a new alias, "Moonbeam". In 2004, they released their first single with Portuguese label Feed Me Records.

At the end of 2005, Moonbeam created a platform for the release of their own works, the first Russian digital record label Moonbeam Digital (with sub-labels - Disoma Records and Moon Tribal Records, which have since closed). In the spring of 2008, the brothers went on an international tour, stopping in places such as Miami, Japan, and Australia.

2009 saw the release of the single "30 Days Of Drought", which was released on the label Proton Music. This was followed by several more releases on various labels. A month later, the duo opened for Tiësto in the "Tiësto Summer Tour" in Kyiv. The group toured in Germany, The Netherlands, India, France, Japan, Australia, Ukraine, and Russia.

2010s

In late 2009, Moonbeam announced that they would release a new studio album, titled Around the World, on March 22, 2010, on the label Black Hole Recordings. In 2011, they released a new album called The Secret (Moonbeam Digital).

In late 2014 Moonbeam returned to the studio to record their next international album. The result was Atom, which again followed in the Khvaleev brothers' grand tradition of the untraditional. The first single taken from it, Follow Me, co-produced by Indifferent Guy and sung by Eva Pavlova, was released in mid April 2015, with the album seeing release a month later.

The Random was followed in 2015 by their second motion picture III. The thriller/horror film made Official Selection at a wide range of international film festivals, including FANT & Nocturna, Spain, BIFFF, Belgium and the Imagine Film Festival in the Netherlands. On May 15, 2015, it won the Best Cinematography award at Australia’s prestigious Byron Bay International Film Festival.[2]

On March 5, 2016 at the festival «Trancemission Awakening» Pavel and Vitaly announced the closure of the project and the imminent release of «Eclipse» farewell album. New album "Eclipse" was released on April 25, 2016.

After 3 years off downtime, in 2019 Vitaly Khvaleev has launched Moonbeam.

Radio Show

Moonbeam produces, since January 2014, "Ticket To The Moon", a monthly one-hour radio show showcasing their own songs as well as those of similar artists.

Discography

Albums

Compilations

DJ Mixes

Singles

Remixes

Videography

Filmography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Moonbeam . RU . 2023-02-26 . promodj.com.
  2. Web site: Moonbeam . Black Hole Recordings . 30 March 2016 . 26 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160326141852/http://www.blackholerecordings.com/artists/moonbeam/ . dead .

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