Iskander Moon
After years of quietly honing his craft, 25-year-old Belgian singer-songwriter Iskander Moon steps into the spotlight with his long-awaited debut album Salt Moon City (February 2026), a record that feels as intimate as it is expansive. Drawing on classical training, international travels and late-night reflections, Moon has crafted an album where confessional songwriting meets cinematic scope: a city of sound built from memory, love and restless curiosity. That next step took shape over two years and more than 60 shows across Europe, while Moon also produced and worked on singles and albums for numerous other artists from his new home base in Brussels. Anyone who has seen him perform knows where his rock-solid live reputation comes from.After years of quietly honing his craft, 25-year-old Belgian singer-songwriter Iskander Moon steps into the spotlight with his long-awaited debut album Salt Moon City (February 2026), a record that feels as intimate as it is expansive. Drawing on classical training, international travels and late-night reflections, Moon has crafted an album where confessional songwriting meets cinematic scope: a city of sound built from memory, love and restless curiosity.
The foundations were laid with his debut single “Saturday Silence”, which spent much of 2024 cruising the airwaves, and the highly acclaimed EP Are You Lost Here?. Together they established him as one of the most authentic Belgian musicians of his generation, earning widespread airplay, a string of sold-out shows and well-received festival appearances at Pukkelpop, Live/s Live, Lokerse Feesten and Dranouter. Beyond Belgium, he also took to stages in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Sweden. “It was essential groundwork for the next step, a step for which I’ve now firmly laced up my boots,” Moon reflects.
That next step took shape over two years and more than 60 shows across Europe, while Moon also produced and worked on singles and albums for numerous other artists from his new home base in Brussels. True to his nomadic lifestyle, he wrote and recorded Salt Moon City in locations including Berlin, New York and a 19th-century castle just across the French border. The result is richly orchestrated alternative pop in which Moon excels as a pop balladeer, drawing on his background as a classical pianist and composer as well as a bassist and singer in rock projects.
Listen closely and you’ll hear a musical omnivore, equally inspired by Paolo Nutini, Sufjan Stevens and Coldplay as by classical icons Bach and Debussy. As a young teenager, Moon toured Europe with the choir ensemble Collegium Vocale Gent and even composed polyphonic works for a male choir, experiences whose echoes still shimmer through his songs today.
Anyone who has seen him perform knows where his rock-solid live reputation comes from. Momentum at home keeps building too: his band’s set at Pukkelpop lived up to that reputation, and tickets for his autumn club tour have been flying out the door.
