Monte Mai: Japanese Girl
Electronic Avant-Pop / Indie-Pop. Monte Mai are Fabio Besomi, Fabio Pinto and Anaïs Schmidt. Deconstructed rhythms, smoky bass riffs, lanky psychedelic nursery rhyme-like vocal lines, analog synths and angelic voices. A retro-manic journey into post-genre lateral Pop and played electronica, creating a twisted musical language all their own. They’ve just released “Japanese Girl”, the first of three singles from the Swiss trio.
A straightforward, unadorned track celebrating the beauty of diversity. the vocal line of the verse, with instant familiarity, leaps over the music; a rhythmic-melodic pattern at one with the lyrics, emulating the graceful, and even somewhat clumsy, movement of a rapid pace of steps. In response, in the refrain, the female falsetto plays with the soul strings, evoking reminiscences of Enio Morricone-like cowboy nouvelle vague choruses. the ending, a delirium, with a radical, sudden, analog-flavored slow-motion effect diving in unexpectedly but smooth as honey.
“I believe that active music listening is a relationship with ourselves and not only with the music, with our inner world, through the world that the music opens to us” said Fabio Besomi. “the song evokes in me a powerful sense of inclusion, belonging, and curiosity” he candidly added projecting a sort of meaningful, unsmiling presence.”
The single, produced by visionary Domi Chansorn (Fai Baba, Alabaster de Plume, Sophie Hunger), gives us a taste of what’s in store for their new album, due in March 2025.
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Photo credit: Alan Koprivec
