Biography
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Years Active
2005 – present (20 years)
Official website: www.mastersmonkeys.net
Master's Monkeys was formed in spring 2005 by Paul A. Kessler and Anto A. Marijic.
Paul & Anto started as a duo, recorded their first 5-track EP and had their first live show as Master's Monkeys in Berlin, January 2006. Later that year Paul moved to Germany's former capital Bonn, wrote a lot of new songs and looked for further musicians to work with.
After a Germany tour, Paul published a Master's Monkeys live album, called 'Street Theater 2008' In Summer 2009 the song 'Over & Over Again' was the winning song in a competition of the West German Radio and not much later Paul finished his first longplayer 'Under The Shade Of A Pine' in October 2009.
At the end of February 2010 the song 'Little Prostitute' was the next winning song of the WDR 2 radio competition.
A fitting description of the music was given by a fan, who listened to Master's Monkeys on last.fm. “It's like Tom Waits creeping around the Grimm Brothers enchanted forest.“
Street ballads, crime stories and traumatic dreamworlds – Sometimes bluesy, sometimes jazzy and always reflecting a special and particular atmosphere.
Right now Paul has just moved to Germany's media city Cologne and started working with a young talented video artist to produce visual material for Master's Monkeys.
Under The Shade Of A Pine
Street ballads, crime stories and traumatic dreamworlds
Master's Monkeys' longplayer debut "Under the Shade Of A Pine" has already earned a lot of good feedback from all corners of the earth.
The 17 songs from the album cover a wide range of musical styles - From Blues over Rock and Songwriter to Bossa.
By this time, many listeners and several representatives of the music industry have shown their interest in this new extravagant band from Germany.
Band Members are Paul Aka Kessler, Anto Marijic, Martin Kessler, Frank Beilstein, Farsin Chahidi, Lukas Carthaus
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