Listen "Monkh - Level 1"
Episode Synopsis
Guitarist Daniel Horrell aka “Monkh” epidimizes the hustle of a modern musician. His band Monkh and the People rocks funky R&B on big stages and his solo stuff grooves just as hard - even when it’s just him and an acoustic guitar. He’s got a playlist on Soundcloud of thirty three guitar hooks like “Monkh 144BPM G#m Lead 3” for producers who might be browsing, and his latest single is a minute long track for sale as an NFT on Opensea. A compilation of all nine of these tracks - Levels - was just released on bandcamp. The music for Level 1 - Astro is a combination of twenty six separate files of instrument and vocal tracks --well, twenty five if we exclude one titled “Classic electric piano don’t use_1” which we definitely got into. At the end of the episode we’ll play the finished song, which was composed deliberately alongside animation. You can find those videos on instagram. For this episode, I talked to Monkh about composing the music for Level 1 and we’ll hear the isolated tracks alongside his narrative. Songs Out Loud breaks it down. Instrument by instrument. Lyric by lyric. And beat by beat.
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