"...and the crimson moon whispers goodbye"

by BONNER KRAMER

Shimmy-2034  (Release Date: December 12, 2025)

Kramer’s 1st solo LP in 5 years is a 4-part ambient drone-poem for The Living and The Dead. 

The 1st pressing is limited to 111 hand-numbered LPs on 150gm black vinyl, available exclusively HERE in the Shimmy-Shop & on Bandcamp. 

A 'Clearly Discreet' vinyl pressing is also available. 

A download link for the LP + a digital-only bonus is included with each Vinyl purchase, featuring +48 minutes of music:    Kramer's live performance of his “Music for Pianos & Sunflowers” recorded @ Big Ears 2025 (featuring Shahzad Ismaily).                                                

"Whispers for the Blessed and the Damned. Whispers for the Living and the Dead.

The music on this LP scores movies-of-the-mind, projected individually by each listener and filmed anew with each listen, creating internal spaces that can travel beyond mere meditation. The sound of one's self is the destination these compositions seek to reveal.

My hope is that deep-listeners will be inspired to create their own inner films, created by their own psycho-acoustic experiences, building subconscious theaters atop the whispers of their imaginations." 

- Kramer, October 2025

Kramer's last solo LPs "And The Wind Blew It All Away", “Music For Films Edited By Moths” and “Music For Pianos & Sunflowers”, were part of his 2020 AIR (Artist-In-Residence) box set for Joyful Noise Recordings.

“And The Wind Blew It All Away” was a gentle mystery tour of simmering acoustic strings, organs, pianos and mellotrons, tape loops, found sounds and a whisper of percussion, laced through Kramer's distinctively idiosyncratic voice and poetic lyrics.                                                                                                                        Kramer is now shifting away from words/text and fully into the minimalist instrumental drone-poems that first gripped him during his early years of composing and performing in NYC’s late 70s ‘downtown’ experimental music scene.                                                                                                                                         "...and the crimson moon whispers goodbye" offers Kramer's most recent audio explorations into the creative environments that draw him full-circle back into the forest of ideas and organic influences that have been discreetly percolating for decades.     

Fans of Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Brian Eno and Gavin Bryars will be inspired and intrigued by these latest sonic explorations. 

All music composed and performed by Bonner Kramer. 

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Kramer. 

Front Cover painting by Zarstar.

Photography by Zarstar.