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Recognisable and new. Challenging, but accessible.<\/p>\n
When Monkey Plot was founded six years ago, they were a rough and earthy electric guitar trio before pulling the plug and deciding on a totally acoustic sound. Now they\u2019re plugging themselves back in again, but with a very different expression than they had six years ago. <\/p>\n
The group\u2019s acoustic music was designed for small rooms: living room music. On their new album they have moved down to the basement. Their music still suits small spaces, but the volume is turned up and the energy is different. But rather than presenting raucous, noisy rock-club improv, they have developed a kind of ambling, makeshift form of expression, which is their own unique sound. Recognisable and new. Challenging, but accessible.<\/p>\n
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On their third album the guitar, bass and drum trio Monkey Plot are going electric again after having cultivated a purely acoustic sound for several years. Their music still evokes an impression of intimacy, although the band\u2019s roots in rocking improvisational music now come more clearly to the fore.<\/p>\n
The group\u2019s acoustic music was designed for small rooms: living room music. On their new album they have moved down to the basement. Their music still suits small spaces, but the volume is turned up and the energy is different. But rather than presenting raucous, noisy rock-club improv, they have developed a kind of ambling, makeshift form of expression, which is their own unique sound. Recognisable and new. Challenging, but accessible.<\/p>\n
Monkey Plot have been described as having revitalised Norwegian improvisational music, and improvisation remains their tool of choice in forming their music. The material on Here I Sit, Knowing All of This has been carved out gradually in the course of several years of interplay and improvisation. The band toured extensively in Europe and South American in the past year, and the many concerts have obviously taken their interaction to a new level. Monkey Plot\u2019s first album, L\u00f8v og lette vimpler, was released on the Gigafon label in 2013. The following year the band was pronounced \u201cNorwegian jazz musicians of the year\u201d and won a grant from Gramo, Norway\u2019s performing rights collecting society. <\/p>\n
The Swedish poet P\u00e4r Th\u00f6rn has collaborated with the band at a number of concerts and on a cassette release. He reads his own poem on the track \u201cKalla Handen\u201d on the album.<\/p>\n
Here I Sit, Knowing All of This was recorded on analogue tape at Athletic Studio in Halden, and was mixed by J\u00f8rgen Tr\u00e6en at Duper Studio in Bergen.<\/p>\n
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