What inspired the name of the band? What are your influences and are they the same as when you started out?
It all comes down when Vincenzo was visiting the Far East and in a hotel room read a sign about keeping the windows shut due to monkey intrusion. When he told us we all had this vision of music monkeys intruding the audience’ minds! As for the influences we come from different backgrounds so there would be to many to name, let’s just say that prog, grunge, metal and punk come all together into our music.
How and why do you write what you do?
Usually there isn’t a fixed theme… more often is the sound of the progression or some intriguing rhythm that trigger the ideas! Also, we all write songs so there are at least four ways to approach songwriting plus when we combine different segments into one song… so ultimately no fixed pattern.
First would be nice for us to understand what sort of music we do! We simply try to convey the feelings we have and so we use a wide palette of styles to underscore certain passages trying to give them the proper “colours”. What we strive for is to find a very recognizable sound to hold this mayhem together!
How and why do you write what you do?
Usually there isn’t a fixed theme… more often is the sound of the progression or some intriguing rhythm that trigger the ideas! Also, we all write songs so there are at least four ways to approach songwriting plus when we combine different segments into one song… so ultimately no fixed pattern.
First would be nice for us to understand what sort of music we do! We simply try to convey the feelings we have and so we use a wide palette of styles to underscore certain passages trying to give them the proper “colours”. What we strive for is to find a very recognizable sound to hold this mayhem together!
Live?
Fortunately for us we write all the songs in a live perspective, so we don’t have to make a choice… it only depends on what kind of event we have to perform and decide which ones have to be set aside, but if it is our night we play them all! As you will hear from the album there’s not much that has been made in post production about adding instruments and changing arrangements, pretty much what you hear is what you get in our gigs.
What plans do you have for the future?
We lately released our first album “Pussycats And Monkeymen” so we are getting as many gigs as we can to promote it. At the same time we are working on some new songs and we hope that in the near future we’ll be able to enter a studio to record them, at least for an EP.
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https://music.apple.com/it/artist/monkey-intrusion/1692368979
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Email: monkeyintrusion@gmail.com
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