I discovered the beauty of Monkey3´s compositions when we had two Italian guests in our former house. They asked us about our music which we are into. After a typical Italian-like screwball talk, I said: This song is our essence of music we like. And I put on "Icarus" and we all started to cry due the beauty of this song. Same happened at the Hellfest 2022 when my friend Jaime and I introduced some of his friends to "Icarus" and we cried. "Welcome to the Machine" is a more colder and technical...
There are still a lot of people who haven´t heard of Monkey3. When they ask me what kind of music they play, I always answer: "A more heavy and instrumental version of Pink Floyd". The latest prove that the Swiss band keeps on approaching to the Floyds is the title of their latest album "Welcome to the Machine", which will be released on February, 23rd, 2024. Despite all the common epic in their songs, Monkey3 always have several jokers in their sleeves, which first appears like "What is...
This tour is a bit like the typical tour situation in 2023; weather the van breaks down or the transport costs are that high that you have to cancel the whole tour. So it happened with Toundra. I mean, they have to come first with all their stuff from Spain to Central Europe and travel around and get back to Spain on their own bill. I can understand their decision. Monkey3 and The Delayed travelled to Regensburg to play there and suddenly the gig there was cancelled.