Kia ora and welcome to Monkey Records.
Monkey Records is a genre-defying independent record label, founded mid-2000 by musician/producer Nigel Braddock, 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 38 releases and counting. Please note that all our prices are in NZ$.
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6 piece world jazz ensemble Mundi hit the road over summer…
“Unique and bursting with creative genius” Presto Arts & Culture
“…Fresh…funky. Intricate, multi-layered works…dynamic solos” The Press
“They give us their all, and send us home with an indubitable sense of passion and conviction, giving us a taste that we’ll certainly not be soon to forget.” Craccum
Prepare to be transported! With inspiration from as far afield as the
New Zealand expatriates, Chloë Lewer and Elliott McKee are the indie-folk musical duo, ‘Charity Children Berlin’. After moving to Germany mid 2011, without speaking a dribble of German, they started busking around Berlin, as they couldn’t get any jobs and music was the only profession they could hold down. With their endearing, intimate style, they have managed to build up quite a following during summer from their busking sessions, most notably at the Mauerpark markets on Sundays. Their ukulele-driven sound also features harmonica, melodian, xylophone, hand percussion and anything else small
Rats, the second single from Bond Street Bridge’s sophomore album Spring Summer Awesome Winter , is a disturbing track. Driven by distorted analogue synthesizers and clicking lighters, washed in waves of static, the chanting, mimalist vocal and the ambient soundscape recall the sitting in the rain on the kerb outside a club at four a.m, trying to decide whether to go back inside and dance or call it and go home: It happens to us all.
The video is a black-and-white stop-motion animation which Sam put together with a cast of ceramic owls, bug-eyed rabbits, a flirtatious monkey
To celebrate ten years of surviving the vagaries of the music industry, our great roster of New Zealand independent artists, not to mention our new distribution deal with Southbound Distribution (New Zealand), Monkey Records presents the highlights of our catalogue at super low prices! Available now from us, your favourite online shop or any good record store (NZ). While stocks last…
NEW RELEASE
John White – Inkadies (dreampop) CD - $15
Inkadies is a new solo album by dream-pop folk artist John White. Gathering guest musicians from Madison’s
