Description
About Isolation
Isolation is no stranger to the Faroese people living 62 degrees north of nowhere isolated from the rest of the world. However, during the height of the global pandemic, the entire world experienced social isolation on a grand scale; cut off from family and friends. We all hunkered down, kept our distance from everyone protecting ourselves from infection. The lack of affection took a toll on everyone’s mental health and well being.
In the fall of 2020, Anna was alone in Iceland where she began studying for a Masters in Music with no possibility of interacting and making new friends. One night, out of unbearable loneliness, she tried to contact her husband and musical partner, Arnold Ludvig, composer and bassist of MonkeyRat in the Faroe Islands. Saddened by her inability to reach him, upon her return home from a park, words started overflowing her mind. Inspired, Anna quickly started jotting down all the words that kept pouring from her head and wrote this poem – Isolation. To this day, she is grateful and thanks her husband for being unreachable.
What started out as poem in Anna’s new artistic practice, Poetry w/ electronics, it took a surprising turn to the sound of psychedelic rock reminiscent of the 60’s and 70’s rock music era. The song performed live was recorded at Soundscape Studio in DK, by female award-winning sound engineer, Louise Nipper with MonkeyRat’s award-winning musicians, Alain Apaloo on guitar, Arnold Ludvig on bass, Jens Stoklund on drums and frontwoman, musical director, poet/lyricist, Anna Iachino on vocals. MonkeyRat delivered a pre-release live performance of Isolation at Copenhagen’s Winter Jazz Festival on February 26th, 2022 where the audience went wild rocking out to the chorus, What a Crazy World!
Released on the following formats:
Digitally on all major platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.). You can listen with this link: https://bfan.link/isolation-1
Isolation Music Video:
Out NOW!
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 music to edgy and chillingly nostalgic Rock N Roll laden with Feeling and presence is almost as if you fused 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 the band are one genius.”
– Jéssica Mar / HEAD BANGERS NEWS
All reviews of “Isolation” can be found here: https://www.
Support for the “Isolation” video from the following grant organizations:
Mentanargrunnur Landsins
Torshavnar Kommuna
Sands Kommuna
Gramex-FO
Koda-FO
