A music blog asked me to record a live version of my song 'Bend or Break' during the curfew in Holland. This studio version is very different - slowly slides into an electronic ending connecting 2 different vibes/styles.

Faultline wrote: "With Monokino being described as an odd/pop composer I felt the eyebrow begin rise and meet the furrowed brow. Oh joy one of those avant garde types that makes noise but has no intrinsic merit whatsoever. I was wrong. Utterly. There is an undercurrent that you’re at some sort of trippy house party or have perhaps overindulged in a way you wouldn’t wish to repeat. The “in the round” vocals add to the helter skelter vibe and cut across the guitar which comes in and out like a bad influence pulling at your arm. A musical venture with a salient point that’s actually worth listening to. "

Bend or Break

Bend or Break (Lockdown Version)

Reach Out

How Might You

Survival

Survival  (Instrumental)

A music illustration of the battlefield: epic music.
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Photo by Duncan Kidd on Unsplash

Battlefield

Instrumental created in 2018 before I went on hiatus again

James Theme (Instrumental)

Seasons

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Where you feel
you must be
is only what you wish
to not become

Now keep you trapped
and free my soul
Oh I must, arise, arise

Oh, Rouse now
And conflate us
And erase our heart
And be as one

Chorus:

Oh, for this heat is made of shade
And people will- go ablaze
And while your blood boil
Mine is burning!

Oh, for these virtues and sorrows
Show that there is no tomorrow
And while your blood boil
Mine is burning!

Oh, clad in darkness, that I've made
Oh, The things you never say
Oh, the regret, oh the regret
Now I will show you my soul!


We look in the mirror
oh and wish we could not see the errors

And we rouse now
In the dream we died
Wish we could hide
while you say
You're not like them

Chorus:

Oh, for this heat is made of shade
And people will- go ablaze
And while your blood boil
Mine is burning!

Oh, for these virtues and sorrows
Show that there is no tomorrow
And while your blood boil
Mine is burning!

Oh break them free!
I don't wanna see
What's inside of me
Or what's inside of you

Now save them
Can you save them?
Redeem them?
Protect them?
From the fires that i must start
To save you from myself!

Dissolve..

Become...

Like the ash...

I create...

I become...

Like.. them..

Seraph's Rouse

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New Single: BABY
https://monokino.ffm.to/baby

"'Baby' is hard-hitting psychedelic garage rock perfection, melded with swirling 80s synth-pop — it’s explosive and incredibly catchy."
- Glide

" 'Baby' dispenses almost entirely with the lush and/or provocative and/or atmospheric synth foundations that have frequently underscored their previous work and plunges with near-abandon into a full-out rock-based assault (with proper pop touches, mind)."
- StereoEmbers