Monkey Intrusion interview

Since it’s the four of us that write there isn’t a specific pattern. Let’s say that usually there are some events, personal situations that trigger imagination so it is pretty random and there’s not any specific theme that we have in mind before we start.

Basically it’s the urge to communicate feelings, impressions.. that’s why you’ll hear many different styles, at times also in the same song. We try to shape the songs so that in the end the message is pretty clear and hopefully the listeners will be captured by it. Since the arrangements are written during rehearsal sessions it often happens that a song will become very different from the original version and usually it’s a good thing because it gathers in richness and depth. At the same time we pay a lot of attention to the overall sound so that it’s recognizable throughout these very different songs.

We perform all of the songs live.. there’s no great effort to transpose them from the recordings because they originally are written to be played live. Certainly there are parts that in the studio versions sound a bit different but the general architecture is the same. You see, for us the live performance is the most important and fulfilling part of the trade so everything is made with that in mind.