The Monotremes are a six-piece comprising keyboards/vox, guitar, saxophones, electric clarinet/bassoon, bass and drums. We are a multigenre band. I write longer songs that are influenced equally by J.S. Bach, Thelonious Monk, Frank Zappa and Beck. Words used to describe our sound have included 'industrial cartoon', 'progressive jazz-pop' and 'psychedlic cross-genre'. Most recently someone came up with 'jazzpunk' until Adult Swim games stole that word from us. We released an three-track EP in late 2013, called Phantasmagorganism. Please check out the video clip we made for the single No York: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6JEe70hs2s We also have a 15-minute cross-genre single (piano pop; slow funk; soul; anti-Murdoch), here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0lZkJ_CeZ0 There is also a video of French composer Francis Poulenc's 1927 Harpsichord Concerto, that I arrangementised for The Monotremes here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7ZE5PYMIsHWNogNEkR35Wgs72t-BjezO For
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