MONKEY3

Stoner Rock • Switzerland
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MONKEY3 are an instrumental psychedelic rock band from Lausanne/Switzerland showing Picasso (bass), Walter (drums), Boris (guitar) and keyboarder Mister M aboard. The music units elements of heavy stoner, post and space rock, all this presented with a rather hypnotic fundament, a repetitive nature. Their self-released debut came out in March 2003.
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MONKEY3 Monkey3 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Monkey3
Stoner Rock 2003
MONKEY3 39 Laps album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
39 Laps
Stoner Rock 2006
MONKEY3 Beyond the Black Sky album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beyond the Black Sky
Stoner Rock 2011
MONKEY3 The 5th Sun album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The 5th Sun
Stoner Rock 2013
MONKEY3 Astra Symmetry album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Astra Symmetry
Stoner Rock 2016
MONKEY3 Sphere album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sphere
Stoner Rock 2019
MONKEY3 Welcome to the Machine album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Welcome to the Machine
Stoner Rock 2024

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MONKEY3 Welcome to the Machine

Album · 2024 · Stoner Rock
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MONKEY3 has navigated the seven seas of psych and back since its formation in Lausanne, Switzerland as far back as 2001 and has continued to ramp up its space odyssey ever since with a series of albums that incrementally progress the band into farther reaches of the known universe and going where no band has ever gone before. This all instrumental project that began as nothing more as a jam band has seen three of its members: Walter (drums), Jalil (bass) and Boris (guitar) stick with the band all the way from the start with dB (keys and sounds) joining in 2004 for the EP “Monkey III” and two years before the band’s first full-length debut “39 Laps” (unless you count the supposedly live self-titled album which came before).

Given that much time in the studio together, musical visions either separate you over time or allow you to coalesce into an even tighter musical beast. MONKEY3 chose the latter and over the course of the last several albums has focused less on the heavy psych jamming elements and embodied a more dynamic and dramatic palette of progressive rock diversity. It’s been five years since 2019’s “Sphere” and the simian psych rockers are back with their latest slab of proggy space rock in the form of WELCOME TO THE MACHINE, a clear salute to the enigmatic Pink Floyd who the band certainly pays a few tributes to in the course of this album of five tracks that generate a playing time of almost 47 minutes with the ultimate tribute exploding into full tribute mode on the closing “Collapse.”

Imbued with all the proper anti-gravitational atmospheric lift offs, WELCOME TO THE MACHINE doesn’t just allow your escape into the ethereal but also features hefty stoner rock workouts with stellar guitar, bass and drum bravado that perfectly navigate the pacifying ambience with grace. The band beautifully meanderings through space rock with beautiful contrapuntal elements including echoey reverb, soaring atmospheric backdrops, lallygagging percussive drive and then contrasts it all with intermittent bursts of heavy stoner rock that allow the guitar, bass and drum to go apeshit (or is that monkeyshit?). The bluesy melodic constructs hearken to the 70s era of psychedelic space rock and of course moments of Pink Floyd influenced nods are scattered throughout, however when it comes right down to it, MONKEY3 has found its own unique little niche which doesn’t really evoke any band, psychedelic, stoner rock or otherwise.

A very melodic album that contrasts with both pacifying and abrasive tones and timbres. The guitar tones in particular are heavily distorted more like a grunge band of the 90s but the soaring lead guitar solos which are set somewhat low in the mix evoke the mighty Pink Floyd at their peak such as any track on the “Animals” classic album. While every track is distinct perhaps the most satisfying on the entire is the beautiful “Kali Yuga” which in musical notes narrates the Hindu galactic calendar period that we are exiting as we transition into the Satya yuga, a time when the wicked nature of humankind will be followed by a golden age. This particular track is the band at its best with beautiful guitar tones oscillating from arpeggios and a multi-layered contrapuntal approach that balances dynamics as perfectly as a skilled yogi. The track demonstrates the patience one must have to navigate larger systems through its nonchalant incremental procession which is about as satisfying for progressive space rock it gets.

While “Rackman” turns up the volume once again with a heavy stoner rock bombast, “Collapse” borrows a trick or two from classic Pink Floyd albums and offers the ultimate tribute to the band with a medley of various guitar riffs, drum rolls and melodies including the classic WELCOME TO THE MACHINE namesake. Overall this sixth album from these Swiss space rockers is extremely intelligently designed with five distinct tracks that evoke their own series of moods and spacey vibes with the ultimate closing tribute to the greatest space rockers of all in a beautifully composed mix of some of the most memorable moments of Pink Floyd. Showing no sign of burning out MONKEY3 sounds like it’s only getting started with a nice mix of stoner rock verging on metal with Ozric Tentacle styled synthesized trippiness. A beautiful album and one of the best progressive space rock bands of the modern era.

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