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The Monks - Monk Time (1966)

The Essential Albums: “BLACK MONK TIME”

“We are ideologically in line with the Fugs and the Deviants, while musically it’s a surreal and derailing garage-rock that dominates among the nave where the monk guests of the German brotherhood launch their sermons. Music from hoods played by people with tonsures. An exaggeration that is a bit crazy and spectacular of what is happening in Italy during the same period with the introduction of the Beat Mass, which, however, has an ecumenical function that does not find a counterpart in the protest of the Monks’ music, definitive anti-heroes of the global beat scene”… so be it…

Ok Rev (73)