interview
monkey onecanobey:
keeping on our
shoulders our music
Monkey OneCanObey: peculiar name for
a peculiar duo of teens who had the idea of
finding a common point between some rusty
rock-blues and the “drumming” exclusively
made by vocal beatbox. The result is MOCO,
first album of the band: we asked them a few
questions.
You are very young: what have you been up
to this record debut?
As you have just said, being very young, we
have had time, and still have, to play, create
and have fun with the awareness of wanting
to explore as much as possible our musical
worlds. We’ve known each other since we
were young and we had the honor to keep
our shoulders out of the music, consolida-
ting a relationship that is now stronger than
ever. The record sounds like this thanks to
the experiences spent together, the friendship
that has consolidated in these last summer
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apparently distant elements like rock and
beatbox?
The idea was born out of Phil about two ye-
ars ago. The result is from a path that Phil has
played in Italian hip-hop music, and he then
became interested in the Beatbox discipline.
The idea of forming a group has always been
and is thus consolidated with the talent of
the group’s Mouth Machine. Melting the two
things to make it become one in the end was
holidays and which certainly have also cha-
racterized the feeling in the test room and
then in the studio. At the same time, we wrote
a lot in this gestation period lasting two years
and the project’s debut was live, only last sea-
son so we had the enormous time, as well as
the need to extrapolate the more sensations
possible by the songs trying to get the best
out of ourselves.
How did you think of putting together two
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