Posts Tagged ‘monks’

17.12.2009 | posted by le_redacteur

Interview with MONKS director Dietmar Post

“Like Mickey Mouse Club or Sesame Street”

By Michael Schuh

In 1996, Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios began working on a documentary about a long-forgotten German Beat generation band “Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback”. The five band members were all GIs who were stationed at the time in Gelnhausen, Germany. Finding material and getting interviews turned into a mammoth project. Ten years later the documentary was finished.

Ten years later the documentary was finished. (more…)

25.11.2009 | posted by le_redacteur

More Monks Music

More Monks Music with Gossip and The Raincoats
The Monk label, Play Loud! has released a split single with two cover versions of old Monk songs. On one side Gossip (Beth Dito) covers “Drunken Maria”, and on the flip side The Raincoats give us “Monk Chant”. You can find the single here:

FILM: MONKS- THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK

08.09.2009 | posted by natalieg

Latest From the Makers of MONKS - THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK

FaustCheck out what Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios - the duo responsible for the acclaimed music doc MONKS - THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK - have just released:

KLANGBAD: AVANT-GARDE IN THE MEADOWS(GER/SP/USA - 85 min - 2009) (more…)