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New Moon Pangs | John Johanna

New Moon Pangs by John Johanna, released 12 September 2025 1. Antioch 2. Seven Hunters 3. New Moon Pangs 4. A Dream of Violeta Parra 5. The Poore Man Payes For All 6. Fire 7. The Horse Has No Rider 8. London Town 9. Justine 10. The Rolling English Road 11. Adieu to Old England With New Moon Pangs John Johanna presents his first full-fledged studio album of acoustic folk rock and marks an exciting return to musical and poetic roots. Grooving country gospel; a driving drone-folk setting of a 17th Century radical ballad; an elegiac dream of a South American master; a shimmering evocation of a vanishing world of visionary greenwood ecstatics… and more. The album’s genesis traces back to the winter of 2021 when a stream of new songs began to flow which bore the unmistakable tang of a heightened inspiration. Born of an intended project to set forgotten poems from the English tradition to music (to which London Town, The Rolling English Road and The Poore Man Payes For All bear witness), …