The Meaning Of Life (Heidi Heidelberg)

Yes, I changed the title because I completely forgot that there's already a Police song called "Invisible Sun"

Blind Malignant Sun

The Secret of Willow Island

I completed this several months ago and planned to include it on my upcoming album before it went a major overhaul. I no longer like this enough to put this on the album but I also don't dislike it enough to have it be lost forever.

It's such a privilege to wake up every day

From the south of the Mediterranean Sea to the Caribbean, Antique maps and compass in hand. To the eponymous mythical oasis, west of the Nile river. Sendero it's a piece of music that evokes different ambiance and uses elements of sounds that takes you away from reality.

Complete EP, April 25th.

The Promised Land

Buy it

Peña - Sendero (Single)

Producer: Witch 'n' Monk (except 'The Cage' by Cameron Laing and 'Self' by Peter Junge)
Executive producer: John Zorn
Associate producer: Kazunori Sugiyama
All music composer and arranged by: Witch 'n' Monk
Recordings: Witch 'n' Monk at Pen-Y-Bont Cottage, Cwmystwyth UK and Allee der Kosmonauten, Berlin DE, except drums (1, 2, 5) instruments (7) by Cameron Laing at The Famous Gold Watch Studio, Berlin DE
Mixing: Peter Junge at Castle Studios, Rohrsdorf DE www.peterjunge.com, except 5 by Cameron Laing at The Famous Gold Watch Studio, Berlin DE
Mastering: Scott Hull
Artwork: Witch 'n' Monk
Photos: Annemarie Sterian
Design: Heung-Heung Chin

The Cage (feat. Gidon Carmel)

http://www.witchnmonk.com meets https://www.listentosteve.com

First broadcast on Resonance FM, 22nd May 2020
https://www.resonancefm.com

WITCH 'N' MONK:
“Electrifying” (The Quietus)
“Exquisite” (BBC Radio 3)
“Ingenious” (The Guardian)
“Emotionally raw” (All About Jazz)
"They could hardly be more of the moment" (The Wire magazine)
"Witch ‘n’ Monk never feels retro in its outlook or musicality. Gloriously different, wonderfully listenable and offering something more each time." (Something Else!)

Witch 'n' Monk - eponymous album released May 2020 on Tdazik:
"Blending Latin American flutes, electronics, complex vocal lines with a touch of Frank Zappa lyricism and a radical punk aesthetic, the duo of Heidi Heidelberg and Mauricio Velasierra crafts a dramatically bizarre vocal music from another dimension! Intertwining dark/light, feminine/masculine, composed/improvised and punk/romantic, dreamlike improvisations are sampled, manipulated and reinvented through the lens of contemporary music and pop. You have never heard anything quite like Witch 'n' Monk!"

Improvised autobiography recorded, produced and mixed by Steve Urquhart, 2019-2020.

Witch 'n' Monk - An Improvised Autobiography

Logic Pro X Day 2 - Drill Experiment

Logic Pro X Day 3

Carsten Dane, Matthew Partridge, Christoph Meier, Stefan Persson, feat. Ghost-Vocals: Edith Adam

Who Lights The Moon?

New album out NOW on Tzadik Records
Witch 'n' Monk (formerly Bitch 'n' Monk) is the twinning of Colombian rebel flutist Mauricio Velasierra and British anarchic soprano and guitarist Heidi Heidelberg. Bring together an unusual set of instruments; traditional Latin American flutes, unconventional vocals, electric guitar and bespoke electronics, they create a sound that is defiantly their own.

The essence of their collaboration is encapsulated in the name; dark and light, feminine and masculine, punk and Romantic, free-form and intricately composed. Exploring extremes and creating contrast is fundamental to their work and thus they tread upon the edges of genres.

Celebrated in the jazz and contemporary classical sphere and embrace by the DIY and underground music scenes they have played across the UK and Europe, at prestigious venues and festivals such the Royal Festival Hall (UK), La Cigale (FR), Bimhuis (NL), ParadoxTilburg (NL), Dunkers Kulturhus (SE), London Jazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival and Umea Jazz Festival. But they have also been found performing avant-garde film scores at communist Italian skateparts or among the thorn bushes in overgrown East London gardens.

"Ingenious...You’ll spend a while pondering how to classify them – prog folk? Operatic post-punk? Gothic reggae? – but they know how to write melodies." - The Guardian
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"Exquisite. A kaleidescope of musical forms" - Max Reinhardt, BBC Radio 3
 
"A poison apple sound of jazz, folk and classical [...] One bite of this will send you into a lovesick coma and give you an electrifying kiss of life all at once." - The Quietus

The Cage (feat. Gidon Carmel)

Witch 'n' Monk

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