HIGHLIGHTS
• 4 Performances at New Orleans Jazz Fest (2010)
• Performed at High Sierra Music Festival (2008)
• Performed at Joshua Tree Music Festival (2009)
• Performed at Las Tortugas Festival (2008, 2007)
• Best Funk/Soul/R&B band in SF Weekly's Best Of The Bay Awards 2007
• Tour history spans more than 300 dates
• Featured on live album from The New Mastersounds
• Forthcoming album features Karl Denson & Marcus Scott
BIOGRAPHY
The Bay Area music scene has been setting standards for many decades. The Monophonics are another prime example of the talent spewing forth from the streets of San Francisco and surrounding areas. Since forming in 2005, The Monophonics have evolved into SF Weekly's "Best of the Bay" winners for their retro sound, style, and approach. They have become one of the hottest upcoming live instrumental funk bands with inspirations stemming from the late 1960s and 1970s. Their popularity has continued to grow since their first album "Playin and Simple" was released in September 2007. Their goal - to spread the funk and maintain the classic Bay Area funk sound - has gained them recognition as young heavy-hitters in the soul, jazz, and funk community. Their musical intelligence and funky sound has landed them guest appearances by saxophonist Karl Denson and Tower of Power's own Mic Gillette on their second album, due to release in the fall of 2010.
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"Monophonics [is] another prime example of the talent spewing forth from the streets of San Francisco and surrounding areas. With their retro sound, style, and approach, they have become one of the hottest upcoming live instrumental funk bands with inspirations stemming from the late 1960s and 1970s."
Sacramento Blog
"Never one to offer audiences a br
eather, Monophonics, looking like they'd raided the Art Ensemble of Chicago's closet and make-up drawe
r, funneled nasty strangeness into funky frames after the Hips."
Dennis Cook, Jambase.com
"Monophonics has been stirring quite the buzz throughout the bay area over the last few years with their organic seven piece funk out
fit that s
ends the dance floor into a fury with their horn section that never disappoints."
Falcore
& Friends, Jambase.com
"Since forming in 2005, Monophonics quickly made a name for themselves, keeping the big horn-driven instrumental funk sound of the '60s and '70s alive with countless gigs around the Bay Area and beyond."
SF Weekly
"One of the best bands to come out of Marin in 10 years."
19 Broadway Nite Club
"Solid"
Sterling James, KLLC 97.3 FM
"Marin County's "band of the year," the fabulous Monophonics, featuring their powerfull trademark horn section - and rhythm section. This band knows how to get a party started. The ecstatic fans were jumping all over the place until the show ended and since nobody was ready to go home, they begged for more."
Mike Ghiringhelli, Ross Valley Reporter
"This up-and-coming young band takes influence from the classic funk era of the 1960s and 1970s, and the dance floor is sure to fill up fast."
Pacific Sun
"The power and the freshness of the sound knocked me out. Always great to hear horns over a funky groove, these boys are bad."
Narada Michael Walden
"The acclaimed Horn Driven funk unit, *MONOPHONICS* is an electrifying band with
unforgettable music. A Funky Bay Area sensation that will burn it down..."
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"The hottest horn-driven Funk this year"
Alex Andreas, The Boom Boom Room
"It's no secret I'm fond of Vinyl, the Greyboy Allstars, and Herbie Hancock's fusion era, and the Monophonics, to my ears, are sonically reminiscent of each while creating something fresh and funky."
Matt Kramer, Marin Scope
"This band is a band on the rise. These young players are cooking up a hearty stew of funky rhythms. Catch them now and you will be able to say you were there when the party was just getting hot -- of course they have had more of a year of being hot and show no signs of cooling down. Its a bold beat and a fun time."
Guy Myers, Bandlands.com
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