"...and the crimson moon whispers goodbye"

by BONNER KRAMER

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

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 is now revealing a more abstract, simultaneously mournful and celebratory side of his artistry... a red-hued vision that inflamed the liminal state of alternating pitches and moods, contextualized by a passage from James Joyce’s 'The Dead', balancing drone elements with legatos and ostinatos, repetitive and journeying instrumentation that generates its own sort of hypnosis by way of its obtuse timbres. Listening to it, you continually second-guess yourself - Are those voices? Are we in a church? – until you decide to let the encounter become all-encompassing and ignore any preconceived notions.                                                                                                                                  "...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.