Monte Mai returns with "Peaches and Limes"
Monte Mai is a Swiss Grenadian psychedelic pop trio. Formed in 2020 by vocalist Anais Schmidt (Grenada), vocalist and guitar wizard Fabio Pinto (Switzerland) and bassist Fabio Besomi (Switzerland). This unique encounter between Swiss precision and Caribbean freschezza echoes in Monte Mai’s music. A skilled blend of dilated melodies, angelic voices and punching electronic beats are portrayed in sheer harmony. A proper balance between man and electronic soul. The composition and production is stunningly accurate and wonderfully unpredictable, as they sway from minimalistic to jammed full soundscapes with inventiveness and bloom.
Their new single + video “Peaches and Limes” is a retro-maniacal journey into played electronics, seasoned with powerful beats, intoxicating melodies and funky guitars in the foreground. Moans, sighs, caresses and fleeting glances, in a kaleidoscope of references and quotes. The song lyrics evokes an intimate three-way relationship, and the ability to have feelings for several people at the same time.
Analogue and orchestral dance music, which has its eyes fixed on an idea of space and sensuality. Robotic voices that lean on an arrangement with reminiscences of a certain fusion pop of the 70s, and glimpses of a Gloria Gaynor-esque disco dance flirting with Giorgio Moroder in a red silk dressing gown and luxuriant moustache.
A background of luxury in the age of intelligent listening that mixes past and present as in a random Spotify playlist.
The single gives us all a taste of what’s in store from their 2022 album debut.
The joyful and "irreverent" music video directed by Shondel Bervini Monkow is a tribute to the best sensuality: the one that is good for the body and the spirit, as a generating force that animates nature. Love without limits and boundaries, lightheartedness and loss of space-time orientation.
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