Dial 'M' for Monkey

by Bonobo

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Nic Bonobo's M for Monkey is perfect. This record is one movie you really don't want to miss. So many sounds from so many different places combined into beautiful soundscapes. This will take you through so many memories but also so many places you haven't been before.

Cactus420 Thank god for SSX On Tour because that game introduced me to this amazing album and, caused me to delve deeper into the rest of Bonobo's discography!

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140g crystal clear 2LP in printed card inners, housed in a 12” sleeve with rotating view mechanism with all new anniversary artwork.

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1.	Noctuary 05:22	buy track
2.	Flutter 04:44	buy track
3.	D Song 05:19	buy track
4.	Change Down 04:33	buy track
5.	Wayward Bob 04:39	buy track
6.	Pick Up 04:08	buy track
7.	Something For Windy 01:11	buy track
8.	Nothing Owed 06:16	buy track
9.	Light Pattern 05:12	buy track

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Simon Green aka Bonobo is back with nine perfectly formed tracks on a perfectly formed album. No huge, bloated, over-conceptualised rottage for the monkey man. He gets in, does what he has to do, gets out.

From the opener, "Noctuary," with it’s creepy stoned-Hammer feel, through the headnod sitar-funk of "Flutter," on into the Rhodes-meets-Gamelan of "D Song," the first third of the record sets out the tone for what is to follow – all beautfiully melodic and perfectly assembled but with enough of a creeping undertow to stop the music becoming empty or saccharine. "Change Down" is all double bass folk and cut-up drums, "Wayward Bob" is a devilish waltz, while single "Pick Up" is a straight funk ‘n’ flute throw down. "Something For Windy"sounds like a dub of a postman on his rounds, "Nothing Owed" is epic pastoralia, while "Light Pattern" rounds things off with what sounds like the theme to the best TV programme never made.

With all instruments played, sampled and sequenced by Green’s own fair hand, there is a consistency here, both within the tunes and across the record that crate diggers can only dream of. There is real development, the building of moods and feelings, a genuine attempt to make great music which is incidentally computer music. He may make a monkey of himself, but he’s no musical mug…

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released June 9, 2003

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Bonobo Brighton, UK

bonobomusic.com

shows

Dec 10

Plantation Island Resort

Suva, Fiji
Dec 29

Brooklyn Warehouse Location

Brooklyn, NY
Mar 31

DRUMSHEDS

London, UK
Jul 05

Schlosspark, Schloss Esterházy

Eisenstadt, Austria
Jul 11

Ferropolis

Gräfenhainichen, Germany

discography

Fold

Jan 2023
Defender

Oct 2022
ATK

Sep 2022
Fragments

Jan 2022

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