1996. 20 years old and heading to the other side of the world.
Playing with a 4-track recorder. Some guitar, some friends. This is Monkey Puzzle.

Vocals, rhythm guitar, drum machine: @premasagar
Lead guitar: Steve Sumner

Who You Gonna Blame For The Falling Rain

1996. 20 years old and heading to the other side of the world.
Playing with a 4-track recorder. Some guitar, some friends. This is Monkey Puzzle.

Ek-Hi-Rasta = "One Way Out"

Brett and I, round at Dave's in the summer of '96. "Ek-Hi-Rasta", the black and white Bollywood classic, was on the telly. We promptly lifted the subtitles for lyrics, borrowing the rhythm guitar from the seminal (and alas, now lost) "An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World". Garnished with some backward Swedes.

Vocals, guitar, samples: @premasagar
Vocals: Brett & our Dave

Ek - Hi - Rasta

1996. 20 years old and heading to the other side of the world.
Playing with a 4-track recorder. Some guitar, some friends. This is Monkey Puzzle.

"Whipped me up into a froth and sprinkled flaky almonds on my soul".

Written by Brett, Prem and our Dave
Rhythm: Prem
Lead: Brett

Croissant D'Almonde

1996. 20 years old and heading to the other side of the world.
Playing with a 4-track recorder. Some guitar, some friends. This is Monkey Puzzle.

Psychic Bond

1996. 20 years old and heading to the other side of the world.
Playing with a 4-track tape recorder. Some guitar, some friends. This is Monkey Puzzle.

Sand Dune Community: with bass by Fritz
The first recording made for Monkey Puzzle. Experimenting with building layers of sound using guitar and bass. The backwards guitar still haunts me.

Sand Dune Community

1996. 20 years old and heading to the other side of the world.
Playing with a 4-track recorder. Some guitar, some friends. This is Monkey Puzzle.

The words for Stone Child came along one day, on a mossy knoll in Wales. The guitar lead ricocheted around my head until I could manage to get it out through my fingers.

Stone Child

Bike

Lackadaisical

As The Crow Flies

1996. 20 years old and heading to the other side of the world.
Playing with a 4-track tape recorder. Some guitar, some friends. This is Monkey Puzzle.

Words Fail Me; the result of a chance encounter in Kew. I wanted to say so much. And that was just before I saw the Monkey Puzzle tree. Glory glory flanger.

Words Fail Me

Live in Verona, Italy. 2002.
With the legendary Sukhadeva Nils Einar Vinjor on lead guitar.

Channel For Your Love

Clear Bell Ringing

Grace

Smokescreen At Ground Zero

Live at the incredible "Innersong" devotional cultural night in Chorlton, Manchester. 2003

Surrender, Surrender

The One

Live at Diamond Dogs, Manchester, UK in 2003.

Ishta: Prem, Steve, Marie & Sandeep
Special guest: Ben Walker on bass flute

Wayside

Star So Bright

Experiments in electronics.
Manchester, UK - 2005.


First Things First

Hindukash

Experiments in electronics.
Manchester, UK - 2005.


You Won't Hurt Me

Experiments in electronics.
Manchester, UK - 2005.

This came about as a challenge to create a whole track's instruments with the Subtractor synthesizer in Propellerhead Reason.

Reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_%28software%29
Subtractor: http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&amp;article=devices_subtractor


Subtracted

With Sukhadeva (Nils Einar Vinjor), in Oslo, Norway - February 2003.

White Stork Spreads Its Wings

Beacon shine your light! It all began with a fat shooting star streaking across my path.

Written in Wendelsheim, Germany. Summer 2004.

premasagar

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