It's ready!
Release date: June 10.
Will be available in all major online stores.
Please place CD/LP orders on our
<http://www.monochrom.at/moments>"Moments"
website or via <http://www.trost.at/>Trost <http://www.trost.at/>Records.
(Generic PR blurb, may be disfigured and
idiotized by journalists and media officers as they please.)
Hello there!
I am the old salt lamp that nobody likes. I live
a cobwebbed life of dust and debasement stuffed
in closets and garages. I go for a measly three
bucks at yard sales. And yet I still cling to the
dream of someday becoming hip and retro for a few years.
So I was very happy when the Vienna-based art
group monochrom asked me if I would like to be on
the cover of their Greatest Hits album Carefully
Selected Moments. We are pleased to announce it
will be released in June 2008 on such antiquated
formats as CD and, yes, vinyl.
I asked them if my old shelf mate, an ugly blue
terry towel, could be there too and they agreed.
As you can see, monochrom are very nice people,
and their music is nice, too! They have recorded
a bunch of songs from their many projects (such
as the Udo Proksch-musical Udo 77 and various
other plays and performances). They sure do love to add music to their artwork!
But unfortunately, monochrom arent a regular
band. They dont have time to get involved in
stupid band stuff like owning instruments or
rehearsing. Thats why they asked some friends if
they could help record these songs. Friends such
as German house legend Hans Nieswandt, Matthias
Kertal (from Mika), Gerald Votava, GameJew, Der
Schwimmer, Max of Prey/audiospam, Gegenstimmen
and the non-existing average Viennese laptop
musician Tonki Gebauer. They all said Well,
yes, that sounds like the kind of collaboration
that makes this world a place you can recommend
to your children. And so they did.
And they did so in a way that still makes me
wonder how they did it. Its a marvellous
collection of songs and moments. Well, legal
moments, that is. Stupid copyright asshole law!
All these songs reflect on well the world in
which we live. Sorry if that sounds corny but I
cant help it, Im just a salt lamp. You know
what I mean: Its a nasty world filled with Lidl
shops, heavy metal collectors, Sao Paulo
Biennials and unpleasant sex. Not to mention heterosexist musical productions!
Therefore, monochrom proudly protest-sings about
that. Which makes for some great think-along stuff.
Let us all point our fingers at something just for the sake of pointing.
Repeat after me:
We dont need no edutainment!
Culture leave them kids alone.
Get on the scene youre a search engine. And so on
(Well, of course, all that
playing-with-words-jazz might sound really dull
but we know that if pop journalists would have to
do that on their own, the result would be much worse).
<http://www.monochrom.at/moments/>Link (CD/LP info and order details)
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Posted By johannes to
<http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/06/monochrom-carefully-selected-moments.htm>monochrom
at 6/02/2008 05:29:00 PM
