Mesmerizing and psychedelic Art Pop. Monte Mai are Fabio Besomi, Fabio Pinto, and Anaïs Schmidt. In this Swiss-Grenadian pop trio, a unique encounter between Swiss precision and Caribbean freschezza echoes through their music. A skilled blend of dilated melodies, angelic voices, and punching electronic beats is delivered in perfect harmony, providing a proper balance between man and electronic soul.
Deconstructed rhythms, smoky bass riffs, lanky psychedelic nursery rhyme-like vocal lines, analog synths, and angelic voices. A retro-manic journey into lateral Pop and played electronica, creating a musical language all their own. Composition and production are stunningly accurate and wonderfully unpredictable, as they sway from minimalistic to jammed full soundscapes with inventiveness and bloom.
Their debut album Eye Sea Double (2023), released in early 2023, received critical acclaim and brought about comparisons to Metronomy, LCD Soundsystem, The Knife, Son Lux, Animal Collective and Vanishing Twin.
They’ve been invited to play at Festivals such as Eurosonic (NL), Fusion Festival (2024), Mi Ami (2024), Apolide (2024), Balélèc (2022), and Reeperbahn (2024), to name a few. To date, they’ve shared bills with the likes of Ibeyi, M83, Cigarettes After Sex, Los Bitchos, Nu Genea, Phoenix, CCCP.
The new studio album, produced by Emmental visionary elf Domi Chansorn, is planned for release in March 2025. The album release will be followed by extensive touring across Europe, touching Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, and France.
