Exclusive video premiere of ‘Burning from Afar’ by THE MON, a solo project of Urlo, bass player, singer and synth master of Ufomammut, taken from the latest album, ‘EYE,’ out via Supernatural Cat.

‘Burning from Afar’ is featuring Sara Pendleton (Subrosa, The Otolith) on violin and Dave W. (White Hills) on guitar.

‘Eye’ is the second album of THE MON. By comparison to its predecessor ‘Doppelleben,’ ‘Eye’ is more introspective and denser, the new record built around electronic soundscapes and acoustic atmospheres that take you on a sonic journey where the songs flow nonstop into one another. While Urlo performs the entire musical foundation of the album, he is joined by a cast of special guests, with vocal/lyrical contributions from Steve Von Till (Neurosis) and Colin H. Van Eeckhout (Amenra), and Francesca De Franceschi Manzoni, as well as violins from Sarah Pendleton (Subrosa, The Otolith), and guitars from David W. (White Hills).

“‘Burning from Afar’ is like a lysergic fairy tale in which the lyrics chase each other to create a mystical nursery rhyme. It’s also one of the two songs in which my friend Dave from the White Hills played his magic guitar, along with Sarah Pendleton from the Otolith which created a wonderful texture with her violin.. This song is one of my favourites of the album, hope You’ll like it as I do.” – Urlo

‘Eye’ was written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Urlo at The Howl, Italy, and the artwork completed by the Malleus Rock Art Lab collective. While choosing a singular genre for THE MON’s Eye is surely a difficult challenge, one could classify the album as heavy dark folk electronic.

The vinyl is in a limited version of 300 copies in total, 100 in a/b blue and purple vinyl and 200 in a/b black and red one. The cover has been designed, handprinted and manually crafted by Malleus. It’s a 180g vinyl and each copy comes with a download code.

Headline photo: Francesca De Franceschi Manzoni

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