![]() "I had to go and be with my other sons who'd gone up interstate. "I had a little boy who was there and I had to leave. ![]() He says the situation he faced was complicated. "And it was a time where I was being drawn away from my home." "It was at the time they said that it was the biggest moon we'd seen – scientists were saying there was this big full moon. "There was a point where there was a big moon in Jan Juc," he says. Rudd told Howells there was a lot going on for him at the time. "I was able to record his heartbeat, in an ultrasound, and then use that heartbeat as a beat for 'Jan Juc Moon' the song, which to me was really, really powerful in so many ways." ![]() He said ten years later he had come full circle and felt a calling to release the song, after being able to capture such an intimate moment from his son in utero. I didn't put it on the Spirit Bird album." "I was going through a bit of a weird time, a lot of change, and it just wasn't time to release that song. "I didn't put it out in the world because it was kind of a personal song," he says. ![]() Rudd told Sarah Howells on Stir it Up that he actually wrote 'Jan Juc Moon' years ago – around the time he recorded the Spirit Bird album, which was released in 2012. The song features some pretty special sounds – including the heartbeat of Rudd's son when he was in the womb. That song is 'Jan Juc Moon' – the title track of his new album of the same name (which was also a recent Double J Feature Album). Xavier Rudd is finally ready to share one of his most personal songs with the world. ![]()
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