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MONOGLOT: Wrong Turns And Dead Ends

Read "Wrong Turns And Dead Ends" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
December 13, 2017

MONOGLOT is still the Swiss/German/Icelandic jazz/rock quintet based in Basel, Switzerland that they were on their first, self-titled album MONOGLOT (Self Produced, 2014). But there have been some changes. The first is new bassist Florian Keller. More significantly, the composing is now split between guitarist Kristinn Kristinsson (who wrote everything on the first album) and saxophonists Sebastian von Keler and Fabian Willmann. I don't know if that is the reason, but the group has a more unified sound this time ...

Album Review

MONOGLOT: MONOGLOT

Read "MONOGLOT" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
January 19, 2015

MONOGLOT comes by their band name honestly, a Swiss/German/Icelandic jazz/rock quintet based in Basel, Switzerland that speaks with one voice. Their music is all instrumental, and the improvisational elements clearly mark it as jazz, but the rock elements are strong as well. This is a contemporary group with one foot in the jazz tradition and another in the rock music they no doubt all grew up with. While led by Icelandic guitarist and composer Kristinn Smári Kristinsson, in ...