Nash describes the secrets behind the incredible sound of Mooncurse.

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'Mooncurse' has no drum machine. The rhythm is created with a fuzz violin.

The violin is tuned down a fifth to make it heavier sounding. It is then put through a Foxx Tonemachine, a Maestro

Echoplex and finally a Maestro Phaseshifter.The violin was then played on my lap like a guitar, and the bottom strings

were plucked with the right-hand thumb while the left hand fingered the chords. The chords are played quite fast, much

like a punk guitar. The keyboard bass drone is through a tremelo, thus adding more rhythm. The melody line is like

nothing you've heard before. It isn't quite a synth or violin and you just can't put your finger on it. What is making that weird,

melodic wailing sound? - It's my voice. Into the Foxx Tonemachine( a unique fuzzbox from the USA, 1973) that had a switch

on it to put the fuzz into a harmonic upper frequency. The voice is humming the melody, no words, through the fuzz into a

Maestro Echoplex. That's all it is. It is natural in phrasing, but artificial in sound.

Mooncurse is one of my favourite pieces of Nash music - Steve Gregory