ANNA IACHINO
Songwriter, Vocalist. Poet & Electronic Music Composer
24.04.2024 | 8:00 pm
Open mic - hosts Anna Iachino & Arnold Ludvig
special guest - Aggrasoppar
Reinsaríið
Tórshavn | Faroe Islands
LATEST NEWS
ISOLATION - What a Crazy World
Official Music Video
Out on October 20th!
https://www.youtube.com/@monkeyratmusic
Credits:
visual artist: María Pétursdóttir @ Imagine Videos, Reykjavík, Iceland
https://m50117.wixsite.com/mariapetursdottir/about
canvas designer: Sean Curtis Visuals, Honolulu, HI, USA
https://soundbetter.com/profiles/318827-sean-curtis-visuals
artwork: Andrei Bordeianu @ PsychoShadow Art, Ungheni, Moldova
https://andrei-bordeianu.pixels.com/
MonkeyRat:
vocals/poem/lyrics/musical director: Anna Iachino (Ca/It) based in FO
electric Fender bass: Arnold Ludvig (Fo)
electric guitar: Alain Apaloo (Tg) based in DK
drums: Jens Stoklund (Dk)
More News:
Alain Apaloo, MonkeyRat's guitarist recently played with Eric Clapton and
Kurt Rosenwinkel, world-renowned jazz guitarist @
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in L.A. in September 2023. 🔥
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10222871715210984&set=pcb.10222871716931027
U will get a chance to hear not one, but 2 spectacular guitar solos by Alain Apaloo on "Isolation" by MonkeyRat.
Production:
recording & mix: Louise Nipper @ SoundScape Studio, Cph, Denmark
http://www.soundscapestudio.dk/
mastering: Óli Poulsen @ FIX-N-MIX, Copenhagen, Denmark
label: Tutl Records, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
https://www.tutlrecords.com/artist/monkeyrat/
Financial Support:
Mentannargrunnur Landsins
Torshavnar Kommuna
Sands Kommuna
Gramex-FO
Koda-FO
REVIEWS:
"Unafraid to merge any of the collaborative arts with her words, Iachino's poetry becomes all the more powerful."
- Mike Jurkovic / ALL ABOUT JAZZ
”Anna Iachino is a musical genius and that probably wasn’t enough for her as she was studying to get a master’s degree in music and was not afraid to try this new bombastic 70s rock sound. Her beautiful alto vocals are reminiscent of singers like Annie Lenox and Bonnie Tyler but with a Rock twist on it that you will love.”
- Akram Soliman / ROCK ERA MAGAZINE
"One of the best and most brilliant EPs of the decade! Audacious, intelligent, and well done. We love creation, the idea is authenticity, for us MonkeyRat came out of the same box and is a genius in the world of Rock that resurrects with this new release."
- Tati Teixeira / INDIE CLOCK
"this shift from intensity in the song to edgy and chillingly nostalgic Rock N Roll
laden with Feeling and presence is almost as if you merged Rage Against The Machine,
Black Sabbath, and Pekka Pohjola. Extremely impressive what the guitar manages to emit, emotion along with Anna, what's most impressive is that everything was improvised and not written, I really want to hear them live. Anna Iachino and band are one genius."
- Jéssica Mar / HEAD BANGERS NEWS
Poem:
ISOLATION
Isolation forces beings become a whole as an entire One
Here’s a chance to get to know oneself, meet a stranger who happens to be u
I know it’s hard, I once lived on a rock, in the middle of the ocean
Was forced to face myself, meet someone I hardly knew
´Twas the best and worst thing that ever happened to me
The knowledge of self was the gift and opportunity
Isolation - time to live as One, as One nation, Isolation to Humanation
Distractions are now hard to come by
Be a magnet to yourself in your mind's eye
There’s so much gold in them their inner chills
Light the light inside your soul, be quiet, be still
No matter how small the man-made structure in this juncture has reduced our flame
My flame was reduced to a gas stove’s pilot light
Uncharted territory, unmapped, unseen was such a fright
I know it can be so dark in isolation when u don’t know who u are
How can u love someone u don’t even know, so close and yet so far
But that’s the beauty of it, it’s all about getting to know one with love
As u finally are faced with four walls, let them burst the flames of your creation
Isolation to creation
No more indignation
No more mass incarceration
No more divided nations
Divide and conquer
Divide and con me and u and him and her
Indoctrination and separation
As they rule
Made us all out to be fools
Define and take your own space
Let no one and no thing interfere
There is only love and fear
As we face ourselves, face to face
Know that we are One, the human race
Forget the lines, the man-made maps
Look at all the man-made crap
All them man-made facts
Generational gaps and man-made mishaps
Oil spills
As man kills
Everything in sight
Short-sighted
Wars ignited
Set all aflame
Like Hitler's and Nero's man-made fires
The USA, all man-made empires
What a crazy world
What a crazy world
What a crazy world
What a crazy world
Isolation
The only way out
Is within
By: Anna Iachino