Bonobo - Dial 'M' For Monkey (2003)
Cover Front Album
Cover Front: Bonobo: Dial 'M' For Monkey
Artist/Composer Bonobo
Length 41:42
Label Ninja Tune
Cat. Number ZEN CD 80
Release Date 09.06.2003
Format CD-R
Packaging Jewel Case
Category Ninja Tune
Genre Acid Jazz; Lounge
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Track List
01 Nocturnary 05:24
02 Flutter 04:46
03 D Song 05:21
04 Change Down 04:35
05 Wayward Bob 04:41
06 Pick Up 04:10
07 Something For Windy 01:13
08 Nothing Owed 06:18
09 Light Pattern 05:14
Personal
Acquire Date Dezember 2003
Index 4
Collection Status In Collection
Details
Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
Amazon.de ASIN B00009MKQB
Amazon.com ASIN B0000996HH
Notes
Press Release

Simon Green aka Bonobo is back with nine perfectly formed tracks on a perfectly formed album. No huge, bloated, over-conceptualised rottage for the monkey man. He gets in, does what he has to do, gets out.

From the opener, "Noctuary," with it’s creepy stoned-Hammer feel, through the headnod sitar-funk of "Flutter," on into the Rhodes-meets-Gamelan of "D Song," the first third of the record sets out the tone for what is to follow – all beautfiully melodic and perfectly assembled but with enough of a creeping undertow to stop the music becoming empty or saccharine. "Change Down" is all double bass folk and cut-up drums, "Wayward Bob" is a devilish waltz, while single "Pick Up" is a straight funk ‘n’ flute throw down. "Something For Windy"sounds like a dub of a postman on his rounds, "Nothing Owed" is epic pastoralia, while "Light Pattern" rounds things off with what sounds like the theme to the best TV programme never made.

With all instruments played, sampled and sequenced by Green’s own fair hand, there is a consistency here, both within the tunes and across the record that crate diggers can only dream of. There is real development, the building of moods and feelings, a genuine attempt to make great music which is incidentally computer music. He may make a monkey of himself, but he’s no musical mug…

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