"he keeps the daily practice - 'my zazen' - of making Gasoline Monk music, and playing keyboards for artists like Terry Borderline and Forte in the Boston hip hop underground..."
"Zero Gravity Instructions" by Danish bred / Boston based multi-instrumentalist producer Gasoline Monk keeps you guessing. With musician's Damian Bolotin on violin and Chris Barber on drums, the song, "inspired by the zero gravity sequences in Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey" is a fluid shape shifter of a song. It effortlessly moves from a sort of psychedelic soul sound with jazz dips (loving the forward pushing drums and strings) and when it stirs in more romance it veers off dramatically into something else. Percolating glacial keys (or maybe palm muted guitars) signal a change. That change is punchy post rock embellishments that feel potent and progressive. Dig the big down beats and layered lead guitars. Then... then another shape shift that one might consider proto new wave / soul pop dip as a breather before another beautiful hard rock runaway.
Digging this. It is from Gasoline Monk's first peak at the growing "Yugen" [album-in-progress] which is very cool. It is not often that you hear the individual songs of an album kind of stacked upon one another.
-Robb Donker Curtius
Digging this. It is from Gasoline Monk's first peak at the growing "Yugen" [album-in-progress] which is very cool. It is not often that you hear the individual songs of an album kind of stacked upon one another.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Gasoline Monk is a producer/multi-instrumentalist & writer from Boston, who works under the influence of psychedelia, hip hop, Zen and surrealism. His experiments began at thirteen in his father’s basement studio, mostly playing every instrument himself. Then came J Dilla, Flying Lotus and the understanding that a beat doesn’t have to be a sterile thing that stays in a loop, but can unravel into a thunderstorm.
During his twenties, Gasoline Monk left for a few years to study electronic music in Denmark. Monk told his teacher, Henrik Sundh, “I want to take my music off the grid.” And the jazz and damp psychedelia bloomed in his work, echoes of the impressions artists from Sun Ra to Soft Machine left. These developments led Monk to form The Monk Batucada, producing four psych-jazz albums with a fluctuating constellation of Danish musicians.
At twenty-six, after losing a long battle with the Danish government to secure a visa, Monk moved back home to Boston. Within a couple months, he met his soulmate, and two years later their daughter was born. Now, under the influence of the city he always ends up homesick for again, he keeps the daily practice - “my zazen” - of making Gasoline Monk music, and playing keyboards for artists like Terry Borderline and Forte in the Boston hip hop underground.
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Gasoline Monk, multi-instrumentalist, producer, Danish, Boston based, keyboardist, electronica, indie rock, post rock, divergent rock, avant pop, soul, funk, "Zero Gravity Instructions", Boston hip hop underground,
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