Monta (band)
| Monta | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Indie , singer-songwriter |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | http://www.monta.org/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Tobias Kuhn | |
Monta is a solo project by Tobias Kuhn .
Project history
After a break from 2003 to the present day, his band Miles formed in the early 1990s , Kuhn brought Monta to life. In contrast to Miles’s indie rock sound, Monta’s focus was on singer-songwriter elements with poppy influences. In the founding year 2003, Kuhn released the EP Always Altamont , followed a year later by the debut Where Circles Begin on the music label Rewika Records , which was very well received by the specialist press. Following this, Monta undertook several concert tours, which Kuhn completed with a changing live line-up. On November 8, 2006 an album by Monta in Japan was released via Solitary Man Records . In 2007 the musician founded his own record label under the name Labelmate, on which the follow-up album The Brilliant Masses was released in collaboration with the Austrian label Klein Records . With the title My Impropriety , Monta is represented in the soundtrack of the film Palermo Shooting by Wim Wenders .
reception
All of Monta's previous publications have received benevolent reviews. Where Circles Begin was characterized by Rolling Stone as a clever singer-songwriter album on a high level, whose beautiful pop ballads dispense with trickery and evoke sweet melancholy in the listener. The record was also described as a collection of never-dull folk-pop pearls, with the Sunday Times calling Monta a brave successor to Bright Eyes . The Brilliant Masses is a perfect, touching lesson in classic songwriting , according to Spex . Particular emphasis was placed on the melancholy, never lewd lecture.
Discography
Albums
- Where Circles Begin (2004)
- The Brilliant Masses (2007)
EP
- Always Altamont (2003)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review of Where Circles Begin in Rolling Stone , November 3, 2004, p. 124.
- ^ Criticism on laut.de
- ↑ Review on Plattentests.de
- ↑ Review of the Sunday Times
- ↑ Critique of The Brilliant Masses on Spex.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Record review on Intro.de
