APARt EP by Mononoke

With their debut EP “APARt”, Berlin-based progressive electro-jazz duo Mononoke present a work that is as intuitive as it is well thought out. Their music is created in the field of tension between spontaneous improvisation and careful studio work - a process that constantly challenges and shapes them as musicians. The physical separation in particular gave rise to a new experimental approach, which they quickly discovered and explored for themselves.each track on this record is a puzzle whose individual pieces were put together, shifted and placed in new contexts. Instead of jamming and rehearsing together, they sent musical ideas to each other without comment, fully trusting each other to freely interpret, change and reshape...This unusual working process is a defining feature of the sound: a fabric of analog textures, fractured structures and a touch of raw intimacy.Each song is a station, each sound a reminder of how music connects us, even when circumstances sometimes threaten to pull us apart. The title APARt deliberately plays with this tension: together and yet apart, improvisation and structure, chaos and order.

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