Ego / Rich - Matthew - Sunny - Dan - Max ()()()()()()() Alter-Ego / Rich - Matthew - Annie - Blake - Max
Influences
Jobim, Badalamenti, Cocteau Twins, Bernard Fevre, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Dymaxion, Brian Eno, Beach Boys, Komeda (the band and the composer), Bartok, Hotels, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Cardigans, Cluster, Ennio Morricone, Donald Fagen, Ghost Box, Museum Of Natural History, Jean Jacques Perrey, Neu, Pat Metheny Group, Raymond Scott, The Sundays, Joseph Campbell, Blonde Redhead, Sven Libaek, and synthesizers that sound like they're dying.
Sounds Like
The soundtrack to approaching Donald Fagen's underwater mansion.
Monocle is a band from Brooklyn... ten hands, textures and melodies, transistors and inner tubes, waves and fiberglass, alien moonlit dinners, harmonic tartar... band biology: keyboards, transistor organs, guitar saturation and dry intimacy, vox everywhere, drums and bass. Invented in 2005. Discography: Lounge Act (2005 EP Pralaya Records), Outer Sunset (2007 LP Hidden Shoal Recordings)
Out Now Through Hidden Shoal Recordings:
Outer Sunset is available at the following online stores:
Lounge Act EP (2006) available here!
(add Monocle's Lounge Act to my collection)
most definitely please to meet you. love the music (and BTW the list of influences) i'll be in NYC this month to tour this month. let me know if you want to come to a show and I'll look for ya! -a
My passion is in the music and here on the spaces there is so much from everywhere. There is so much to be appreciated to be able to listen to a variety of music; some signed and some unsigned. I am a music critic and taking a break for the season. I do miss the challenges of critiquing the music but I will not be back to my critic work on My Space for personal reasons. I may do some promoting in the future.
Music is Life, Like Air is to Breath...
"The aim of music, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of music that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it." Written By J: 2008
Just a heads up to say that Hidden Shoal Recordings have recently released volume 4 in their free label sampler album series, East-West Section featuring the My Majestic Star track 'On Afternoons'.
Hello guys from Monocle, how are things doing up there in Brooklyn ? Hope youre enjoying the 1st month of the year and had a very nice weekend! Health and inner peace to everyone! Hugz
Hi Monocle . We are very happy to announce the release of our new cd "Music through the years" . You can find more nfo, links and track previews in our spacepage or in our site : http://www.sunsetrouge.com. Warm greetings
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