Trip To The Moon is a non-denominational, free-ranging project where its two perpetrators, local music stalwarts Trevor Reekie and Tom Ludvigson, get to stretch themselves into wayward shapes and sounds unencumbered by the preconceptions and demands of their day jobs.
Based around an unlikely but productive union of disparate tastes and skills, since their debut in 1997, the occasional duo has produced six albums. The result varies from one album to the next, but typically combines jazz elements with trip-hop and krautrock rhythms, and spatial electronics with languid guitar.
In the 1980s, Trevor Reekie produced The Mockers (with Glyn Tucker) and Danse Macabre. Prior to that, he made his name as guitarist in industrial dance group Car Crash Set.
In the mid-90s, Reekie produced two albums of subdued electronic dub under the name Cosa Nostra for German label Incoming. He also played guitar on four Greg Johnson albums.
Guests on Trip To The Moon albums have included Greg Johnson (trumpet), Nigel Gavin (guitar), Jim Langabeer (sax and flute), Johnny Fleury (Chapman stick), Ian “Dr Glam” Chapman (hang drums), Peter Scott (bass) and Haitham Mazyan (oud).