With a new expanded line-up, the Monkey Puzzle Orchestra has released their fourth CD, Terra Incognita. Featuring founding members John Rollins and John D’Onofrio joined by Doug Banner, Jim Stewart and Ted Rosen (all of whom have appeared on previous MPO recordings), Terra Incognita not only breaks new ground – it leaves the maps behind!
The ensemble blends a bewildering and ever-expanding multitude of exotic and self-invented instruments to create new sound forms, building on the group’s previous three CDs, incorporating elements, instruments and sensibilities from ethic, jazz, rock, folk, classical and trance musics.
The resulting 13 songs provide the listener with truly exotic sounds from the City of Subdued Excitement.
| New Monkey Puzzle Orchestra CD Released | Webmaster | 12-01-01
6:58 PM | Prehensile Tales has announced the release of "The Placebo Effect", the long-awaited second recording by the Monkey Puzzle Orchestra. Featuring 17 all-new songs, the CD proves a strong follow-up effort to the group's debut release, "Bathysphere Moon", released in 2000.
According to noted critic and revered social icon Godfrey Winfield, " this is music crafted with reverence and hysteria...pure, undiverted and deep...but with a playful spirit that reminds one of Pinky Lee..."
With this recording, the Monkey Puzzle Orchestra, already a household name in Antwerp, Belgium, is clearly poised for international superstardom, taking it's rightful place at the very center of the universe.
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