I AM

Mockingbird

Uplifting in every level of performance, High as a Kite, like the other singles in this enticing song-by-song release, explores the highs and lows, the calming affinities, and the crazy progressions on the journey through experience. Advancing steadily and seductively to the pulse of acoustic and electronic drums, this bewitching new song takes an aerial but intimate view of the contrasts and contradictions of love, the multi-sided nature of affection, and the shared realities within human involvement. “Look into my eyes,” Monique sings beckoningly, inviting discovery and confrontation in her creative search through space and time. As the song builds, the flow of voice and music evolves into a billowing curtain of sound, spirit, rhythm, and atmosphere. Soothing keyboards join forces with weaving guitar licks, capturing a timeless, perfect moment of knowledge and contact within an uncertain world. Addressing realities belonging to all ages and levels of involvement, High as a Kite uses lyrics, music, tempo, and ambient soundscaping to capture and acclaim the recognition that comes with emotional awakenings.

HAAK

High As A Kite

Following the thematic thrust of the earlier singles, New Eyes adds its own rushing narrative to the album’s ongoing exploration of the journey from innocence into experience—in this case a long, struggling moment where “where joy and pain peacefully unite.” In this fourth piece of the evolving album’s soundscaping portrait, we’re given a glimpse of a world recently discovered and seen with new emotional jeopardy and excitement. Pure love leads to pure pain—and where pleasure is absolute, so is the accompanying suffering.
Rich with rhythm, entrancing flourishes, and ominous emotional signals, New Eyes is Monique’s riveting take on Krautrock. Like a dance of love ripping through a burning building, the new single is ambient but aggressive, experimental yet traditional. Riding on a rhythm that throbs, smacks, and strums all at the same time, New Eyes combines the pounding nocturnal attack of Marianne Faithfull’s time-honoured Broken English with the wide-eyed curiosity and bravado of a contemporary Lene Lovich. As spidery hooks creep in, cloudy fuzztone dynamism gathers and  mushrooms, and Monique’s searching vocals reach through the music, catching shards of her soul, and ours too. This latest offering from Monique Barry takes the disco-punk dynamic by the throat and hurls it into a dance club inferno.
As well as providing Monique with a new recorded drama to explore and inhabit, New Eyes thrives and soars thanks to the participating artistry and inspiration of Marc Meriläinen (guitar), Alisdair Jones (bass), and Michael Wojewoda (mixing/drums).

New Eyes

New Eyes Radio Edit

Climb

Dance, it is said, is the hidden language of the soul, but Monique Barry has given it a new linguistic identity by becoming the voice of dance itself. It all happens in her newest single, which, appropriately enough, is called 'Dance'. It's the fifth and latest in a series of singles by Monique that's slated to culminate in a completed album entitled HAAK. 

From single to single, Monique has been exploring the journey from innocence into experience, building on the theme with each song. She enters this new chapter of her musical search by singing in a soothing foxtrot lilt, with the vocal narrative set in a dance club where her protagonist goes to escape a failing romance. There the atmosphere of comfortable chaos with “no cares at all” is highlighted by crisp percussion, music box twinkling (played on a celeste and serving as the voice of disco mirror balls), and synthesizer tones that hover and soar. Gradually as the hunger for escape evolves into a search for order and safety, Monique lifts the lyrics to the next level with her moody, waltzing delivery, and the music gathers into a whirling cloud of sound, suggesting both safety and release, shadow and light. 

Hailed for her “hypnotic mystique” (eye magazine) and “dynamic vocal range” (The Independent Weekly), Monique Barry has consistently demonstrated a willingness to experiment with musical forms and the aesthetic knowhow to back up her creative instincts. Her previous albums—Moody (1998), Tripping (2003), Carbon (2009), and Wake (2013)—have established a critically appreciated affinity for musical dynamism and innovation. Always drawing on a wide range of experiential and cultural influences, Monique’s inspiration for 'Dance' evolved from a section of Joseph Boyden’s novel Through Black Spruce in which a DJ plays mainstream dance music with native rhythms mixed in as a way of communicating. 

Also making musical waves on 'Dance' are some of Monique’s most trusted and vibrant collaborators: Marc Merilainen on guitar, Alisdair Jones on bass, Emma Campbell on vocals and  Michael Philip Wojewoda, co-producer, drums and mix.

Dance

The Euphoria of Flying...on Bandcamp for Purchase

Sally Flyz High

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Sonic Contrast Beings/Denmark
Release date:December 22/2018
Compiled by Bhassam
https://soniccontrastbeings1.bandcamp.com/album/va-tempore-mutationem

Knives Ouit

INterioR_veNT - Knives Out (VA - Tempore Mutationem / Sonic Contrast Beings)

At The Fall Of Carthage

The single "Game" from Red Crickets's debut album. The album is out on March 2013 on vinyl, cd and mp3's.

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Red Crickets - Game


Bohemian Decadence!
Let the needle now scratch the skin, to release a sound within.. Red Crickets brings you the sounds of the Scandivian Underground rock scene! Deep vocals, the sounds of Hammonds & Rhodes, straight-up rhytms guide you to the world of red lights, self-indulgement, after-hours, flagilation.. it’s all here.. 

