Before I give you the backstory of this track, I just wanted to mention that this is my genesis NFT, thus these are my very first steps into this blockchain world (forgive me if I’m using any terms incorrectly). Oh, and if you're wondering why the price is "0.22277”, that's my birthday, actually. 😉 In the late Summer of 2008, I flew to the U.K. to begin my Masters degree program in Audio Production (sound engineering and design) at the University of Westminster, London. At the time, I was renting a room in a flat in the South London neighborhood of Clapham North, and my roommate also happened to be my landlord as he owned the house we lived in. He is a contemporary artist/landscape painter, primarily, but also an online radio DJ, and so he was always having artistic types come by for dinner, and usually Asian artists since he is Japanese, himself. One of the artists who came by one afternoon for lunch was a Bangladeshi poet/spoken word artist. I came to discover that she was considering recording a CD of her work, and my roommate wanted me to meet her to possibly help her with that, musically and production-wise. I was still learning how to record in the studio on my own, early in the semester of my course work at the university, but at that point I knew enough to be able to conduct a session without any help from my professors, so I set a day for us to meet and do her recording session. She recited a poem she called “Moon’s Eye”, which we did in a couple of takes, just to have some variety and pick out the best parts for the final vocal track. Then while she sat there, I randomly played a few chords on the keyboard just to warm up (and set it to a Yamaha grand piano), before I finally pressed “record” and just started playing. The interesting thing about this track was that I did the piano part in one take, which even surprised me, so what you hear in this recording was only played once. I later arranged, played, and recorded the harp and upright/double bass parts to compliment the piano part. Funny enough, the poet didn’t end up using the track and I’m not sure if she ever went through with the rest of her project, but what I did see develop was her and my roommate getting closer, and now they’ve been married for over a decade now with 2 children 😉. As for the track I made, well...I decided it would be a good song to use as the intro for my EP project I released on Bandcamp to little fanfare in 2011, but would later turn into my full debut LP in 2012 that did get a much better reception; and, consequently, it did catch the ear of a Day 1 fan/supporter who over a decade later would become a curator for a site called Catalog and chose to onboard me as an artist in recognition of his appreciation of the positive impact that album had on him (thanks Dutchyyy)! The title, as you can now see, was inspired by the original poem’s title, as a nod to what it was originally intended for. Also, the song made me envision a couple romantically slow dancing to this, in a secluded garden at night , under a full moon or “in the moonlight”, but it's really up to the listener to interpret whatever they feel or perceive when listening to this song–mine is just the origin story.