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Monoland was formed in berlin, germany in 1996 by vocalist / guitarist Marco Blazejczak, guitarist Henrik Schiemann, bassist Matthias Ecker-Erhardt and drummer Daniel Grinstead. After two years and several contributions on compilations in Germany and Japan their first album “MANOUVA†was released on the german label Noiseworks.
A ten track album which was praised by the German press as a work of art based on the shoegazer sound of the early ‘90s.
After several concerts with bands like TAM, Die Art, Jeans Team...Monoland started the recordings for their second album "Cooning" in 2000.
Between old tapes, MIG-Motors and huge bass-drums in the multiple noise studio of Seba Fell and the Einstürzende Neubauten, new songs were recorded and a new record produced.
The sound of Monoland is difficult to set in words. "Rauschen" (noise) is used very often to describe the atmosphere when you listen to the guitars as one of the main elements of their unique sound.
Bands like MBV, slowdive, Bowery Electric...give you one direction describing the warm and the analog. That's what you can dive into again and again - especially if you see them on one of their concerts where they make the air vibrate like only a few other bands.
But this is still not enough to define the music of Monoland. Loops and samples keep breaking through, just before the melancoly threatens to suffocate the noise. A soundland with soft, pink rooms of noisy guitars, sample-loops, steady basslines, quiet voice and hypnotic circulating melodies. The rest is opalescent between walls of sound, trip-hop elements, track-structures and guitar-pop.
With their third album at the latest, Monoland established a reputation to move between the unusual and the unexpected. Adding sampler to a traditional pop-setup, the Berlin based band create songs remarkably unique in sounds and structure. This music is amazingly versatile and what you experience is curiously influenced by the mood you are in and by the way you are listening. You can listen to each track 20 times and every time you will hear something different: new layers, previously unnoticed sounds, unknown links and unexpected turns.
It is left to oneself. Monoland’s music does not simply end. Their music has a visual dimension as it does not produce a finalized image. What you see is that what you lay in it.
Monoland’s music lets you listen to yourself – lets you listen to what happens to you inside. It’s all in oneself. In this way, Monoland are subjective and that’s why they burst the pattern.
"Ben Chantice" was recorded in 2005 by Hendrik Gundlach, the live engineer of the band in Berlin and Leipzig and after some good shows with, The Wedding Present, Maximo Park, garbadine, finn, a tour through Czech and some Festivals in Germany, Monoland are now working on a new album.
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