Silver Monk Time

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Silver Monk Time - A Tribute to the Monks
Soundtrack by various artists

Publication
(s)

2006

Label (s) Play loud! Productions

Format (s)

Double CD

Genre (s)

Punk / krautrock / techno / electronics / garage rock

Title (number)

29

running time

107 m

occupation Faust and Gary Burger, The Fall , Alec Empire and Gary Burger, Gossip , International Noise Conspiracy , Fehlfarben , Alan Vega and Silver Apples , Michaela Melián , FSK , The Havletones , Doc Schoko , Alexander Hacke , Mouse on Mars , Cycle , Charles Wilp and The Monks , Singapore Sling , Goldene Zitronen and Chicks on Speed ,Gudrun Gut , Jon Spencer and Solex, Floating di Morel , Nista Nije Nista , Jason Forrest , 27/11 , Barbara Manning , Psychic TV , SYPH , 5.6.7.8's

production

Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios for Play Loud! Productions

Studio (s)

Various

Silver Monk Time is a tribute album for the beat group The Monks and at the same time the soundtrack for the film Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback, which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize . The album was produced and compiled by the filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios and officially presented and released in October 2006 at the Volksbühne in Berlin together with the film and the Monks' first live concert in Germany in 40 years.

Style, meaning and reviews

The film Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback has repeatedly encountered financial problems in its almost eight years of production. The Monks music has often been labeled as irrelevant by certain media. Therefore, with “Silver Monk Time”, on the one hand, a new independent film financing model and, on the other hand, a kind of musical evidence and experiment should be created.

The title "Silver Monk Time" was borrowed from the following rumor: After the publication of "Black Monk Time" in May 1966, the Monks were already working on the basic idea for a second album, which should consist of only one piece. The title of this new album should be "Silver Monk Time".

For the album "Silver Monk Time", which was released 40 years later, in contrast to conventional tribute albums, no attempt was made to copy the original tracks of the Monks. Rather, the 29 music groups were asked to experiment with the musical concepts of the Monks. Mouse on Mars expressed this in the extensive booklet accompanying the double CD as follows: “ Mouse on mars tried to dismantle the monks in such a way that after the reconstruction the incalculable influence of this band on the pop music of the 21st century is proven. With the monks, rhythm, sound and melody grow together to form a driving mass of lava, on which the most energetic music surfs down into the valley of dionysus, tearing disco balls from the trees like apples. "

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes: "Artistically as creative and fearless as the Monks, their grandchildren represent a form of pop music in which aesthetically and musically daring things can be discovered, in which the irreconcilable sets the tone over the self-satisfied".

The New York magazine Village Voice says: “The Uberbeat (and a war or two) goes on. (...) "silver monk time" buys us all some more hop time, finally! "

The renowned British “ The Wire ” voted “Silver Monk Time” among the best compilation records of 2007: “Unlike many tribute projects that fall flat due to those involved being either overawed or ignorant of the original material,“ silver monk time ”succeeds because the participants have taken the group's primitive rock surge as a template to experiment with. As a result the sound of The Monks is treated to a 21st century workout with synthesizers and beat tracks threaded through the original quartet's already way out psychotic minimalism ".

Two original members of the Monks, Dave Day and Gary Burger, played on some of the songs for "Silver Monk Time". Burger and Alec Empire updated the anti-war play "Monk Time". Faust and Burger continued the documentary film's soldier story on the play "Beware - The Transatlantic Feedback". Mouse on Mars and the Havletones took advantage of some of Dave Day's banjo outtakes. Psychic TV and Mense Reents used a few interview snippets to help. Burger and Day added banjo, guitar and vocals to the Afri-Cola piece by Charles Wilp.

The cover of the double CD is based on the motif of the film poster for Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback , which was drawn by the German painter Daniel Richter .

Track list

Initial release

CD 1

  1. Minimal Monk (Mense Reents)
  2. Black Monk Time (Alec Empire / Gary Burger)
  3. Monks No Time (Mouse on Mars)
  4. Monk Chant (The Raincoats)
  5. Were Ever / Oh, How to Do Now (27/11)
  6. Monk Hop (Jason Forrest)
  7. Blast Off (Cycle)
  8. We Do wie Do (false colors)
  9. Drunken Maria (The Gossip)
  10. Complication (Jon Spencer / Solex)
  11. Silver Monk Time (Silver Apples / Alan Vega)
  12. Shut Up (Floating di Morel)
  13. Tumbling Monks (Gudrun Gut)
  14. Kuchhuche (Nista Nije Nista)

CD 2

  1. The Transatlantic Feedback (FSK)
  2. Higgle-dy Piggle-dy (The Fall)
  3. Complication (The Golden Lemons / Chicks on Speed)
  4. I Can't Get Over You (Barbara Manning / The Go-Luckys)
  5. Boys Are Girls and Girls Are Boys (PTV 3 [Psychic TV])
  6. Shut up (Doc Schoko)
  7. Oh, How to Do Now (SYPH)
  8. I Hate You (Alexander Hacke)
  9. Shut Up (International Noise Conspiracy)
  10. Cuckoo (The 5.6.7.8's)
  11. That's My Girl (The Havletones)
  12. I Hate You (Singapore Sling)
  13. Blaster (Michaela Melián)
  14. It Is Charles Time (Charles Wilp / Monks)
  15. Beware - The Transatlantic Feedback (Faust / Gary Burger)

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  1. ↑ 3sat press review  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / pressetreff.3sat.de  
  2. ↑ The complete review in the Village Voice for "silver monk time"
  3. ↑ play loud! Press overview

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