Album Notes

Cosmic Buffalo is proud to offer this as our first and most substantive representation of our music to date. \"Shake hands with the Moon\" is a 4+ year effort that included many, many musicians, friends, artists and engineers. Both Chris and myself extend our most sincerest thanks to all of them.

Cosmic Buffalo on this album is :

Paul La Bonte singer/lyrics
Chris Corso guitar/melodies
Grant Walthal drums/percussion
Mike Pupo drums on Mobile Maroon Living Room
Craig Juan bass
Tim Luce bass
Luther Cuffy bass
Lisa Kelly mandolin
Rocky Peoples sax
J. Murphy III pedal steel
Ray Castro keyboards, moog, synthesizer
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Brian Vaughan recording/sound engineering/mastering
Tom Cosgrove Cover layout and graphics
Edmund Eng Trademark and Logo


This concept album is a way to show our appreciation for the influences that we were both inspired by but among all those
the one\'s that stood out the most to us are :
Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix

The album that had the single most impact on me (Paul) is
the Pink Floyd \"Dard side of the Moon\" album. As it was a major impact on artists all over the planet. So the title of this CD is a play on and salutation to Pink Floyd.

I am from Washington D.C. and began singing at an early age
Chris is from Chicago but raised in Portola Vally California
Even though we are from both sides of this continent we share our appreciation of Hendrix and Floyd. Being from different coasts we each were influenced by local to us and unknown to the other artists that had great impact on our individual growth in music.

Attempting to include as many of these influences as we could this collection of songs is what I have come to term as genre-bending. A process that requires extracting recognizable elements from 2 to 3 of the artists we admire so much and fusing them into an original song of our own. For example \"Naugahyde\" the first track is a fusing of 3 band styles. Traffic/Spirit/Hendrix feeling piece

Also it was our intention to make each track a different style from the others while keeping the message congruent throughout from beginning to end. Each song has a mention of or reference to the Moon in them. And the songs are both somber and comedic with a range of emotions represented herein.

There are no shockers and the listener will find this to be a CD they can turn to when relaxation is required, it is very mellow. We thank any and all of you who show us the respect and acknowledgments of support by your purchase or review of this CD. Let us know what you think so we can improve on it.

Always with love Cheers:) Paul