- 2024-06-17
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MUSIC
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Monotronic Returns With New Song “Sun Song”
New York-based indie rock band Monotronic returned with a new song “Sun Song” on June 14, 2024.
The song is their first music in two years since the 2022 single “In Between”.
Also, the track is the first single off of their upcoming sophomore album “Waiting For You”, which is expected to be released in early 2025.
The track was written by Justin Wands, and Ramsey Elkholy who also produced it.
The band founder Ramsey Elkholy said of the song, “I had been playing the opening guitar riff on the sofa for many months without any lyrics or concept. I think I was riffing on Nirvana's 'All Apologies' initially, which then morphed into something else. And then one morning before heading to the studio I played the riff and out came 'I don't want to lose a minute of sleep, lying in bed and wondering what could have been.'”
He continued, “At that point I knew I had a concept and the song kinda took off from there. We tracked most of the instrumental that day and the lyrics were finished about a week later. The song kinda wrote itself. And the outro lyric 'waiting for you' actually became the title of the record.”- Created from the vision of guitarist/producer Ramsey Elkholy, Monotronic combines his love for music with his inspiration from other cultures.
Much of these influences are a result of his extensive travels throughout India and Southeast Asia.
Living this “collective” mode of life where the group is valued over the individual and everything is shared is an idea that Elkholy brings to Monotronic, where every musician is encouraged to bring their own creativity to produce truly “collective” music.
Ramsey Elkholy said of Monotronic, “Monotronic is a concept, whereby each instrument can be heard as a continuation of the other and the music sounds as one distinct whole, emanating from a single source.“ -
photo by Adriana Mesén - source : Apple Music
