MONOKINI

The 60s have been essential for nowadays´ pop music. It brought concepts and postures, along with styles and proposals that found each other odd and kept certain distance between them, despite the delicious and almost dismissible quality they had. In Brazil, the bossa crew could not stand the jovem guarda rebels, which thought that the bossa guys were too put. The geniality of Monokini is to join these styles and to find their own identity in the middle of that, with keyboards that recall the easy listening of Sergio Mendes and the elegant pop of Burt Bacharach. Guitars and basses find the balance between the pop of the Beatles, the irresistible moves of the Jovem Guarda and the electric bossa of Roberto Menescal. Drums and percussion in the exact key between music and rhythm; candy vocals, almost childish, recall Astrud Gilbert and Françoise Hardy; and yet a mood of Phil Spector and girl groups as Ronettes. The lyrics are naive and innocent, remembering the time where the important things were the good things of the life as the blue sea, the girl of Ipanema and the boy of Sampa. They had participated of compilations around the world and Mondo Topless, their debut, is one of the most appraised independent records in Brazil.

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