Monotreme Records

Wir haben seit kurzem die Promotion für das in London beheimatete Label MONOTREME REC. übernommen. Das Label wurde 2002 gegründet und beschäftigt sich vornehmlich mit allem was den Stempel INDIE vertragen könnte. Allerlei Nützliches erfährt man auch über die Labelpage www.monotremerecords.com.

Folgende Veröffentlichungen stehen an:

THE MASS
Album: City Of Dis
VÖ: 27.10.2003
Label: Monotreme/Cargo
City of Dis is the debut album from The Mass, an angular four-piece from Oakland, California comprising Matt Waters (sax / vocals), Matthew Solberg (bass - also plays guitar in From Monument to Masses), Tom O'Donnell (guitar) and Tyler Cox (drums). The band play dynamic, stop-on-a-dime music that gallops through a variety of styles, incorporating math-rock, punk/jazz saxophone and metal guitar riffs, with grindcore vocals that range from high-pitched screams to deep guttural growls and unearthly howls. Despite the varied nature of their music, the songs somehow remain cohesive and even melodic. Tracks such as 'Trapped Under A Ice' and 'We Enslaved Elves To Build Our Death Machine' are epic trawls through ever-shifting landscapes of squalling saxophones, drifting art-rock drones and crushing guitar.
The album was recorded by Tim Green (of The Fucking Champs) and mastered by John Golden.
For Fans of Mr Bungle, Fantomas, Shellac, John Zorn, NoMeansNo, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sweep The Leg Johnny, and Frank Zappa or anyone who enjoys listening to inventive and well-executed music and isn't afraid to rock out.

LOWER FORTY-EIGHT
Album: Skin Failure
VÖ: 27.10.2003
Label: Monotreme/Cargo
Lower Forty-Eight was formed in May 2000 with the intent of playing music that has the heaviness of metal, the complexity of progressive rock and the intensity of punk and hardcore. Following their debut EP, "Gentle Tyranny" and a full-length album, "Halfback", both released on their own King of Sticks recording cooperative, the San Francisco trio unleash their European debut, Skin Failure - a dynamic, passionate album characterised by the powerful angular guitar and intense vocals of Andrew Lund and the precise, complex rhythms of Phil Becker (drums) and Grady Mutzel (bass).

From the hyper-kinetic opener, "If I Dare", to the thundering finale title track, Skin Failure maintains a driving energy throughout, transiting through numerous tempo changes, careering from melodic to frenzied, and punctuated with explosive outbursts of guitar. The seamless blending of diverse elements to create songs that are intricate yet accessible reflects the high level of craftsmanship that Lower Forty-Eight apply to their songwriting, resulting in an album that propels the listener forward from start to finish. Andrew Lund's vocals, at times melodically melancholic, at other times furiously screamed, underscore the personal nature of many of the songs' lyrics. In the final half of the album, Lund delivers his own blistering attack on the American 'state of the union', heaping fiery scorn upon the corporate greed of global capitalism, disregard for the environment and heavy-handed foreign policy espoused by the Bush administration.

RAL PARTHA VOGELBACHER
Album: Kite vs Obelisk
VÖ: November 2003
Label/Vertrieb: Monotreme/Cargo

Listening to Ral Partha Vogelbacher's European debut album, Kite vs Obelisk, one can't help but wonder how the world must appear through the eyes of Chadwick Bidwell, the impishly creative driving force behind the San Francisco band. It's probably safe to say that his fantasy life is alive and well and firing on all cylinders.

On Kite vs Obelisk, he casts his imaginative and musical nets wide, and drags in a heaving shoal of weird yet strangely endearing characters to populate a richly diverse musical landscape. There's "Aral Sea Regulars", a tenderly mournful Will Oldham/Songs:Ohia-style ballad about terrified soldiers on an ancient battlefield awaiting their moment of glory; the Pavementesque slanted and enchanting "I'm a Jai Ali Kinda Guy"; "Night Stinger in the Night Shade" - a rocking tale of a taxman who sells his infant son to a dark wraith in exchange for a comfy life; the whimsically macabre "Take Me to Your Dacha", with it's jingly upbeat tune and black humour worthy of Monty Python; the breezy and surreal "Kite Carry Obelisk Over Lake Victoria"; the gentle quirky humour of "Walking a Sickly Bobcat South of Your Cedar Infested Estate"; and the dazzling pyrotechnics of "Red Hot Tugboat", plus a half-dozen other songs of equal splendour.

Ranging from stark acoustic to fuzzed out electric guitar and squalling feedback via waltz, frantic folk, syncopated rock and drunken drum machine, and containing lyrical references to the Stones, Palace, the Smiths and Pavement, Kite vs Obelisk is an album of many hues.

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