Sonntag, 19 Oktober, 2025 - 20:00

Church Car // Natural Realms

Ian Douglas Moore
Rev. Mugglestone
Bryan Eubanks
Xavier Lopez

Church Car is the duo project of Ian Douglas-Moore and Big Daddy Mugglestone, blending minimalist psychedelic trance-rock, spoken texts mediated by machine algorithms, and tunings that alter the listener’s auditory perception. Their guitar and drum interactions move between polyrhythmic goatherd meditations and field recordings, creating an imagined folk tradition glimpsed through a screen of urban life.

While living in Berlin, Ian Douglas-Moore developed a minimal approach to the guitar, creating psychoacoustic experiences with feedback and resonant long tones. After moving to New York City in 2016, he studied just intonation with composer David First, later joining his ensemble. He has played bass guitar in rock bands Gold Dime and Bushwick Cowboys, organizes experimental music concerts with guitarist/bagpiper David Watson, and performs with people like Patrick Holmes, Jeff Tobias, and Dominic Coles.

Big Daddy Mugglestone (Aaron Snyder) is a Colorado-born musician and composer. After studying Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and doing field work in Africa, Asia and Central America, he landed in Berlin in 2005. Since then he has worked in many different projects and bands, from stage and dance sound design to Country/Americana and experimental improv.