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gilli moon's second studio album, delivering us her personality crisis, emotions and sensuality. Title track winner of the Song Expo 2001, Benelux and No. 7 in the Top 15 of the Chicago Star Newspapers Albums of the Year.  Hot song picks: "Temperamental Angel" (plus music video), "Naked", "Digrace" and "Touch Me". The 2000 album is re-released with digital surround sound soon as part of the 3 disc pack the evolution of gilli moon. 

Co-produced by gilli moon and Evan J. Beigel in North Hollywood, the album sends powerful messages about self empowerment, embracing the full range of human passions and emotions that our personalities express, through a uniquely alternative, edgy sound mixed with gilli's soulful voice.  The album has been produced in a way to capture gilli's raw and sensitive emotions combined with her unique, naturally trained voice. Keeping with her vision, much of the production was spontaneous following a very organic approach, with all recording using live instruments.

With songs written by gilli, temperamental angel is an expression of personality, of raw and sensitive emotions, and how we relate to the people in our lives through the various love-hate disguises of our personas. And what better spokesperson than a chameleon like gilli moon. The title song of the album, also called "Temperamental Angel" sums her personality in a nutshell: 'Sliding in the river/ feeling the mud stick between my toes I'm alive/ but my body's struggling to compose/ I'm alone/ you're born alone you live alone you die alone/ must we accept the cards we're dealt?/ it's crazy to be denied of life/ I'm a sucker for conventional romance/ but I've never truly experienced the chance/ will you treat me like an angel?/ a temperamental angel? / save me, I'm waiting for my resurrection / come on and save me, I need your true protection.'

It marks gilli's first true epigraph of what she is really about - raw, organic, sensitive yet strong. 

"I grew up loving art, loving Picasso and Pollock, loving pop music, and all I wanted to do was combine the two. I am an "expressionist" and I want to capture my vision of life, love and individual spiritual growth in a multimedia project that crosses boundaries and borders." - gilli moon

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Benelux International Song and Culture Festival 2001 - Overall Winner Song 2001 - "Temperamental Angel" and "Why Do You Love Me Still". Best Entry from Australia "Temperamental Angel"

Chicago Star Newspapers Pop Stops 2001 - "Temperamental Angel" No. 9 in Top 25 Albums of the year

ComRadSat Radio, Australia 2001 - "Temperamental Angel" Album of the Week

Benelux International Song and Culture Festival 2000 - Top Pop AC category with "Feel For You" and "Plenty". Best Entry from Australia "Feel For You"

fans speak

"The songs are absolutely killer"

"It is the most sensual CD I've ever heard"

"you really show your vocal 'passion'"

"it's one of the best albums I've heard all year.. Your new music blew me away." 

"Guitar driven edgy 'metal-pop', delivering a David Bowie-esque piano solo invasion, with catchy hooks and flowing harmony lines..."it’s like Kate Bush meets Metallica. Right on!"

"gilli moon, the girl Radiohead"

"It's like Abba meets Alanis Morisette on crack with Charles Manson marrying Aretha Franklin"

"great music that could rock you, mock you and sock it to you with heartfelt romantic lyrics veiled as poetry set to throb-rock funky soul sister guitars oozing textures like a painter's canvas, kundalini rising basslines and powertripping keyboards ala elton john or billy joel in the early days and those intense vocals that reached out like thing's hand and grabbed you by the throat where you were usually choking back tears..." 
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Sweden's "Collected Sounds" writes gilli moon "is an intriguing new voice to listen out for". 

BALLBUSTERHARDMUSIC.COM
I had a vision. I heard a voice that came from the heavens to offer salvation to the masses. A talented voice that had music with soul, with emotion and that voice belonged to gilli moon .....  gilli moon is an artist with substance, that's for sure and ""temperamental angel"" has been one of the true rewards of my writing career this year.... I haven't been this excited about an artist since I discovered the music of Tori Amos."                                        

STAR NEWSPAPERS /Pop Stops - Chicago
"I think it's one of the best albums I've heard all year!!!! Congratulations on an amazing disc. I liked Girl in

 the Moon, but this disc (temperamental angel) shows a maturity of style and voice that's profound. Your new music blew me away.  - An amazingly mature and complex album, Temperamental Angel speaks to the bare emotions of love, hate, empowering sensuality and hand-tying vulnerability in all of us..... her whispery, lilting upper register brings to mind a young Kate Bush, mixed with the angst of Alanis Morissette.. Temperamental Angel delivers with a wide swatch of styles and confessions..."

The Star Newspapers, Chicago put her album at no. 9, in their top 25 records of the year 2001. 

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gilli moon opened for the legendary Simple Minds in Phoenix Arizona, at The Celebrity Theater - while promoting her temperamental angel tour.

credits

produced  by gilli moon 
and evan beigel.

originally mastered by paul bryant, sydney australia. 
mastering coordination: roxanne kiely

album & website concept, 
self-portrait photos and 
art direction by gilli moon
additional wing art by 
elisa lazo de valdez. 
original cd printing riddle press
1st manufactured by experience entertainment

will everyone please take a bow:

(what do the numbers mean? ... they relate to the songs.)

1234578910 
evan j. beigel: sound design, keyboards, arpeggiators, organ, filters, trombone, talk

2345789 christopher maloney: bass 

10 jeffrey dean: bass

235789 brett garsed:electric and acoustic guitar

4 joey palmeri: acoustic guitar

235789 timothy pedersen: drums

4 andy megna: drums

12379 franck bensoussan: didgeridoo, irish penny whistle, djembe, percussion

9 libby lavella: guest vocal and backing vocal arrangement

1 kate shaw: talk

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