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Monkey Records is a genre-defying independent record label, founded mid-2000, dedicated to releasing and promoting innovative New Zealand music both at home and internationally. Our catalogue contains some of the most diverse and interesting music to come out of Aotearoa in the last few years and currently stands at 28 releases and counting. Please note that all our prices are in NZ$.
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Niko Ne Zna are New Zealand’s very own Balkan Gypsy brass extravaganza. Formed in Wellington five years ago, the band has been stunning audiences ever since with their exuberant, dynamic performances.
On January 25th they are unleashing their debut self titled ep which consists of delicious arrangements of five traditional and original Gypsy tunes. To celebrate the release, they will be taking their unique and special sound around Aotearoa on an extensive New Zealand tour.
Comprising trumpet, saxophone, accordion, trombone, sousaphone, drums and percussion, Niko Ne Zna are a truly authentic ensemble. They can roam while
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Gypsy Fever Summer Tour 2010
Following a successful European summer based in Berlin, The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band and DJ Balkanetic are back for another one of their legendary ‘Gypsy Fever’ summer tours bringing the infectious, irresistibly danceable sounds of Eastern Europe to venues throughout New Zealand. In Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington they will be joined by special guests, the amazing Balkan brass band Niko Ne Zna from Wellington, who are launching their debut ep on Monkey Records late January.
The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band
Hailing from the slums and ghettos of Auckland (the Prague of
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Monkey Records is pleased to announce the release of a summery little gem from Auckland artist Bond Street Bridge. The new song ‘Birds’ is the first single from Bond Street Bridge’s forthcoming sophomore album, due for release in early 2010 following on from the critically acclaimed The Mapmaker’s Art released last year.
In this catchy wee number, Bond Street Bridge, aka Sam Prebble, reflects on the mating habits of New Zealand’s paradise shelduck, Tadorna variegata. These striking brown-and-white ducks generally mate for life, and pairs are a common sight in open country in
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‘Too Drunk to F**k’ is the second single to be released from The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band’s debut album ‘Polkapocalypse’ and is their version of the much loved Dead Kennedy’s song.
Hailing from the slums and ghettos of Auckland, New Zealand (the Prague of the South), The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band bring their unique brand of highly theatrically East-European Apocalyptic Debauchery to those in need, wherever they may be. At a live performance one can expect spontaneous combustion in the audience, clothes thrown off in frivolous rampage, macabre stories, legs turning into snakes, much musical and physical inebriation,
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Lorazopam is the fourth single from Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album ‘Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight’ which was recently included in Nick Bollinger’s new book 100 Essential New Zealand Albums.
The video for Lorazopam is by Chicago-based director Israel Alpizar, who also directed the acclaimed clip for Renee’s first single, Bodhisattva.
Says Carafice -”This song was originally intended to be so melodramatic that it was funny. ‘Sometimes everything in you tells you to break out into the night’… come on really! But as the song got heard by more and more people, people’s response to it was quite different,
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