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Cardboard Rocketship is the first single from my album Sweet Songs of Survival (due out autumn/winter 2019). You can also view/listen, alongside my back catalogue, at www.monc.net. The animation was made by the brilliant Edie Morris - www.designbyedie.com. 

Cardboard Rocketship recounts an unforgettable and possibly pivotal moment in my childhood. When I was 4 years old, I sat cross-legged on the living room floor inside the rocketship my Dad and I had made from old cardboard boxes. My Dad handed me his headphones - enormous 1970’s style ones and I placed them on my little head. He then dropped the soundtrack to '2001 Space Odyssey' on vinyl. Suddenly I hear this amazing sound…the opening theme (Richard Strauss’s "Thus Spake Zarathustra”) and it just blew me away! I think it was the first time I’d heard an orchestral piece on headphones. I spent the next 45 minutes sitting there in another world. I believe that’s when I decided I wanted to live in that world forever and create music. ‘Cardboard Rocketship’ is the story of that special moment in time. 

I always try and retain that feeling of wonder, freedom and hope throughout my work and my life in general. It’s not always easy to remember that feeling as we ‘grow up’ but it is, in essence, who we are. I hope this song helps you, in your own ways, to feel that…stay positive! 

 I had some very special mates add their musical talent and soul to this song - here’s what they/we all played: 

 Vocals, guitars, basses, keys, percussion: Monc 

Female Vocals: Donna Taylor & Jackie Simley 

Pedal Steel: David Rothon 

Cello: Juliet McCarthy 

Trumpets: Ron Blake & Daniel Hall 

Trombone: Mat Colman 

Saxes: Ben Waghorn 

Drums: Luke Hartley 

Engineered by: Monc, Jason Lord & Steve McCormick 

Exec Producer: Jason Lord 

Written, Arranged, Mixed and Produced by: Monc

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My new single Delicate Creatures launches today! Here’s a short taster with video by Edie Morris - www.designbyedie.com. Visit my website www.monc.net or YouTube channel MoncMusic for the full version.

More singles to come over the next few months leading up to the launch of my new album Sweet Songs of Survival this autumn/winter. 

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Delicate Creatures is a simple song with a simple message; All we have is us and for all of our apparent differences we are the same - human, organic, emotional, fragile. I wrote this during the aftermath of post-traumatic stress after my chemotherapy had finished - very difficult but ultimately enlightening. The more open and empathetic we are with one another, the more we can see and understand ourselves and the more positive we feel.

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