Monde UFO follow the celebrated ‘7171’ album with a trip to the mysterious ‘Flamingo Tower’. In the shadows of the Los Angeles bustling music scene, the enigmatic collective led by visionary Ray Monde create a trance-like fusion of psychedelia and avant jazz, mantra-like evocations, brash moody ambience and passages reminiscent of long-lost library music.
Magnifying Monde UFO’s idea of musical chaos, their early sonic escapades into off-kilter exotica is now elevated with sweeping atmospheric waves of sound inspired by an eclectic brew of Arto Lindsey, Khan Jamal’s ‘Drum Dance To The Motherland’, Keith Hudson, Milford Graves, Marion Brown, Don Cherry and Lennie Tristano.
Cast deep into number theory with occasional quasi-religious touchstones, ‘Flamingo Tower’ bustles with background sounds overlaid with intimate melodies conjuring plenty of suitably strange illusions; a synthetic orchestra plays baroque pop, a guitar is set to auto destruct and Ray Monde’s hushed vocals carry a bracing narrative. It’s an evocative album, one for the heavy music nerds, sprinkled with ear candy and proliferated by mysterious numbers which litter the song titles.
Available on Limited Edition Flamingo Pink Vinyl.
“A vertiginous reverie that confounds as effortlessly as it seduces” New Commute
TOUR DATES
10 Mar: Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA, US [Album Launch]
28 Mar: Ventura Music Hall, Ventura, CA, US*
29 Mar: Farm House Collective, Riverside, CA, US*
30 Mar: The Sound, San Diego, CA, US*
04 Apr: Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, CA, US*
05 Apr: Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, CA, US*
09 Apr: Sierra Nevada, Chico, CA, US*
11 Apr: The Chapel, San Francisco, CA, US*
12 Apr: The Chapel, San Francisco, CA, US*
06 May: Shacklewell Arms, London, UK
07 May: Garlic Mansion, Liverpool, UK
08 May: Glad Cafè, Glasgow, UK
09 May: The Common Room, Newcastle, UK
11 May: The Garage, London, UK ~
13 May: Bagni Elsa, Pesaro, Italy
14 May: Borgo Santa Brigida, Parma, Italy
15 May: 30 Formiche, Roma, Italy
16 May: Ex Convento SF, Pordenone, Italy
17 May: Annibale Festival, Firenze, Italy
19 May: Mochvara, Zagreb, Croatia
20 May: Rockhaus, Salzburg, Austria
22 May: La Parenthèse, Nyon, Switzerland
23 May: Horst, Kreunzlingen, Switzerland
25 May: 8mm, Berlin, Germany
26 May: Kinnett, Kusel, Germany
*w/ Allah-La’s
~ w/ Rose City Band
