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Monkey Records Singles

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WanderingLoss

spritoflove

Nov-15

New music

Dance 1

Michelle Gurevich - Show Me The Face

Love My Dog

Коннитива (feat. Masha Vodyanova)

Postcard

I'm a town
And there's a tower
That grows from my heart
Where thousand of birds live
I'll send you a postcard
With a carrier dove
Where im on a sunset
Keep your windows open
Keep your windows open
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Postcard

I'm a town
And there's a tower
That grows from my heart
Where thousand of birds live
I'll send you a postcard
With a carrier dove
Where im on a sunset
Keep your windows open
Keep your windows open

Postcard (feat. Alex Gorshkov & Alexey Yarygin)

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Ed Sheeran x Rudimental - Bloodstream (LVNDSCAPE Bootleg)

Feeling

Depth

Circle

Группа Чайка - Солнце

Warm Storm

Written and produced by Oh Wonder

Debut album OUT NOW!

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LYRICS
They're building towers that are high enough to see the clouds 
But it don't bother me 
The elevators working overtime up and down 
Yet it don't bother me 

Cos I need something more than everything 
A higher self deep within 
Cos I need something more than everything 
A higher self, a higher self

And I know we need a little heart hope 
I know we've gotta outgrow and feel a little heart hope

They're building aeroplanes faster than the speed of light 
Yet it don't bother me 
The endless cities multiplying oceansize 
Yet it don't bother me 

Cos I need something more than everything 
A higher self deep within 
Cos I need something more than everything 
A higher self, a higher self

And I know we need a little heart hope 
I know we've gotta outgrow and feel a little heart hope 
Cos there is something more than everything 
So feel the love and let it in
Cos I know we need a little heart hope 

Heart Hope

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The Moth & The Flame's "Young & Unafraid EP"

Ten Years Alone

Christine and the Queens

Jonathan (feat. Perfume Genius)

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Make Like A Tree & Masha Gavrilova - Train Uh U Hu

Happy B Song is the first single from Make Like a Tree's forthcoming album, Animal. Preorder here: https://monkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/animal-preorder

Make Like a Tree is a representation of travels expressed in music and photography created by Sergey Onischenko, a wanderer from Ukraine who has been hitchhiking around the world spreading his indie-folk tunes whilst exhibiting his minimalistic landscape photography along the way.

Each concert is played with new members and all songs are created and recorded in different parts of the world. Experiments with sounds and collaborations with the audience can turn this one-man-band into a duo or into quite a large improvising ensemble. The soundscapes of Make Like a Tree will bring you to an inner world of nature, woods, mountains and windswept tropical beaches and the sense of freedom that comes with life on the road.

The Animal album is a result of Sergey’s two and a half year hitchhiking journey through 13 countries from Ukraine to New Zealand. In June 2013 he left his hometown Kharkiv in Ukraine with his guitar in hand and headed to the East chasing the rising sun. It was the beginning of a vagabond trip that he had always dreamed about. Since then he’s done about 250 gigs in around 200 cities in Russia, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Lao, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. In late 2015 he will be touring Russia and Ukraine to promote the release of his new album with touring plans for Europe and who knows where else in 2016.


Animal

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Happy B Song

Michelle Gurevich - It's No Compliment

Michelle Gurevich - Party Girl

Lifted from Freddy Fudd Pucker's latest album Hourglass Wine, this song sees him in a more reflective mood as opposed to some of his faster foot stomping, thrash folk numbers. Available on vinyl or CD with a handmade 16 page zine hand-drawn by Freddy himself. The digital version also includes a pdf of the booklet to download. https://monkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hourglass-wine

Freddy Fudd Pucker (Tom Young) is originally from a small city at the edge of the earth called Dunedin, New Zealand. However, he has spent the last five years or so touring the world, playing hundreds of shows across Australasia, the USA and Europe. The last two years have seen him based in Berlin, Germany, focusing on a nearly constant European tour schedule. Freddy looks at touring as a way of cultivating not only a growing and loyal fanbase but the very experiences and characters that make up his songs. 

Hourglass Wine is a 10 track offering of break-neck speed, emotive, folk songs. The bulk of the which revolve around the simultaneous, multi-instrumentation of one boy and his high-gain acoustic guitar, bass drum and voice. 

Lyrically, the songs seem to be born out of a desire to restructure and rebuild dialogues often over-simplified in mass media. When listening to the album one picks up the fury and disillusion Freddy perhaps feels in this modern age of disinformation that shapes conversations around issues such as ecological catastrophe and the politics of international migration. Freddy pleads with the listener, and perhaps with himself, to search for a sense of self-worth beyond simply that of a consumer within an unmerciful, global economic system. The heavy lyrical content of Freddy’s songs proves he is not afraid to explore complex ideas within his high-energy, strangely fun, punkrock influenced, folk music.
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Black Honey

Batholemule Brixton is the first single off the highly anticipated forthcoming album "Henry Green and the Island of Tuliarts" by dream pop artist, John White. It is the fourth solo departure since 2000 for the Dunedin-based singer from his heavy popgaze bands Mëstar and the Blueness. 

To listen to a John White album is to succumb to a dream world, both in terms of the fantastical themes and the ethereal textures he uses, and “Henry Green and the Island of Tuliarts” is no exception. Under a soundbed of lush string arrangements and gently strummed guitars, John’s softly delivered and ever so sweet vocal harmonies beguile and at times thrill. Alternating with the exquisite chamber folk arrangements of the title track and others such as Batholemule Brixton and Noneoir, are more trad. influenced songs such as Whisky and Beer and Sally, the latter about the heartbreak and isolation of those sailing to New Zealand from the UK in the late 1800s. “Farewell Song” is written for a musician friend who passed away suddenly during the making of the album.
  
Several of the songs have a nautical theme, with characters overlapping in the stories. The story of Henry Green is about an imaginary island sinking into the rising ocean. The Tuliarts who have lived there peacefully for thousands of years are colonized by greedy pirates but ultimately saved by Henry. Another sailor who Henry Green later joined forces with, is Captain Sabotka, named after a young family member of John's. The stories of Captain Sabotka came about as made up bed-time stories involving a magic wizard crab whose magic only works when Sabotka's eyes are closed (a trick for getting him to sleep). Before each story, John would sing the theme song to introduce the story in the same notion as Postman Pat or Thomas the Tank Engine, resulting in the album version.

Many other magical creatures appear on the album: banshees, lady elves and lexaloffles to name a few. It should come as no surprise that John also designs retro style video games and has a knack for inventing fantastical worlds and creatures. The brightly coloued eyecatching cover of the album is also drawn by John.

"Henry Green and the Island of Tuliarts" was recorded and produced in Berlin by Monkey label boss Nigel Braddock in the summer of 2014 with a few overdubs added in August 2016 in Dunedin and Berlin. On the album, John plays viola, guitar, piano, percussion and a whisky bottle with special guest David Sills (Charity Children) featuring on cello. 

The album will be released October 7th 2016 on CD and through all the usual digital channels via Monkey Records.


Henry Green and the Island of Tuliarts

Batholemule Brixton

Second single and title track from John White's recently released album, Henry Green and the Island of Tuliarts. 

To listen to a John White album is to succumb to a dream world, both in terms of the fantastical themes and the ethereal textures he uses, and “Henry Green and the Island of Tuliarts” is no exception. Under a soundbed of lush string arrangements and gently strummed guitars, John’s softly delivered and ever so sweet vocal harmonies beguile and at times thrill. Alternating with the exquisite string arrangements of the title track and others such as Batholemule Brixton and Noneoir, are more trad. influenced songs such as Whisky and Beer and Sally, the latter about the heartbreak and isolation of those sailing to New Zealand from the UK in the late 1800s. “Farewell Song” is written for a musician friend who passed away suddenly during the making of the album.

Several of the songs have a nautical theme, with characters overlapping in the stories. The story of Henry Green is about an imaginary island sinking into the rising ocean. The Tuliarts who have lived there peacefully for thousands of years are colonized by greedy pirates but ultimately saved by Henry. Another sailor who Henry Green later joined forces with, is Captain Sabotka, named after a young family member of John's. The stories of Captain Sabotka came about as made up bed-time stories involving a magic wizard crab whose magic only works when Sabotka's eyes are closed (a trick for getting him to sleep). Before each story, John would sing the theme song to introduce the story in the same notion as Postman Pat or Thomas the Tank Engine, resulting in the album version.

Many other magical creatures appear on the album: banshees, lady elves and lexaloffles to name a few. It should come as no surprise that John also designs retro style video games and has a knack for inventing fantastical worlds and creatures. The brightly coloured eyecatching cover of the album is also drawn by John.

"Henry Green and the Island of Tuliarts" was recorded and produced in Berlin by Monkey label boss Nigel Braddock in the summer of 2014 with a few overdubs added in August 2016 in Dunedin and Berlin. On the album, John plays viola, guitar, piano, percussion and a whisky bottle with special guest David Sills (Charity Children) featuring on cello.

Henry Green and the Tuliarts

Henry Green

In February, Dystopia finally release their long awaited second studio album, Rough Art of the Spiritual, eighteen years after their 2000 debut, The Wisdom of Insecurity. 

Featuring once again the exquisite poetry of Liz Maw set to music, the new album was fifteen years in the making with recording having begun in Auckland, New Zealand in 2002 and completed in Berlin in 2017. 

While the first album was a collaboration between Maw, Monkey Records founder Nigel Braddock on keyboards and Shinya Asakura on sitar and production, the new album is based around the trio of Maw, Braddock and guitarist Gerhard Lottermoser with a dozen other musicians featuring as guests. 

As on Dystopia's debut, Liz Maw’s poems take centre stage and her astute observations on life, death and the human condition are quietly compelling. Although her voice sometimes barely raises above a whisper, the listener is consistently drawn in by the rich imagery and hypnotic soundscapes which rise and fall and swirl around her. 

The music ranges freely in style from electronica to ambient to neoclassical to jazz to psychedelic rock and sometimes swells from a murmur to an apocalyptic crescendo. 

The striking artwork is a painting by Liz Maw who has gone on to become a highly successful visual artist in New Zealand.

Preorder the vinyl here: https://monkeyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rough-art-of-the-spiritual

Rough Art of the Spritiual

Rough Art of the Spiritual

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Living for Summer

Not a Lemur is the first single from Broad Oak's debut album to be released mid 2018 here given a bass heavy remix by Berlin-based producer Boxroom Rebel.

Broad Oak aka Nigel Braddock, set up Monkey Records in 2000 to release a project he was working on and then got a bit distracted with running the label, producing and managing/touring with bands. His forthcoming debut album has been some twelve years in the making. 

Not a Lemur was originally recorded as a piano piece in 2006 one stormy night when he was living out at Karekare in New Zealand. 
In 2014, John White came to stay with him in Berlin (where Braddock is now based) and they recorded his Henry Green album. 

Although John White is well known in New Zealand as an indie folk/dream pop musician thanks to his band Mestar and his own solo albums, not many people know that he also raps as "Jumps". 

In between sessions working on his new album, White sang, rapped and played viola on a couple of tracks Braddock had been working on including Not a Lemur. Not long after that Brooke Singer, from French for Rabbits, was in town with her band and contributed some backing vocals. 

Says Braddock, " I really like John's stream of consciousness rap and silly word play. There's no posturing or macho nonsense. In fact he sometimes describes it as twee rap, which I believe is a genre he's invented. Despite the whimsy in this song though, at the heart of it there is a love story about a girl he met on a train in Berlin, although unfortunately he lost her number and never saw her again." 

Available on highly limited 12" vinyl or out now on all the usual digital platforms.

Not a Lemur (feat. Jumps) Boxroom Rebel remix

David Lynch - Noah's Ark

Michelle Gurevich - Left You At The Farm

Monkey Records is a boutique independent record label founded in New Zealand in the year 2000 by Nigel Braddock but now based in Berlin. 

After working for twenty years with some amazing artists from all over the world, Monkey Records is no longer accepting any new artist submissions and Braddock is now focused on releasing his own music. Projects include his solo piano compositions under his own name, ambient electronica as Broad Oak and Choam Nomsky as well as collaborations such as The Mung Beings, The Tellurians and Cosmo and the Cosmonaut (with his own son).