The monkey, is the title of the second album by Sandra Monfort, guitarist, composer, singer of Pedreguer and member of the group Marala, who releases this new solo work. Without losing her essence within traditional music or the sweetness that characterizes her when expressed with her singing, this new album explores new paths and adopts a more festive and humorous aura.
Angel Reptile Child (Hidden Track, 2021) led her to become a Breakthrough Artist at the Carles Santos Valencian Music Awards in 2021 and since then Monfort began a journey that led her to The monkey. The work, released from the same Hidden Track label, is available today in CD and vinyl formats.
The title refers to the card game La mona, which Pedreguer played as a child with her grandmother, but also to the 'jack of gold', also known as the 'whore of gold', according to what she stated in an interview for Cultureplaza. This character is the only one who is left without a partner in the game and Sandra picks it up as a way of saying enough to the constant contempt for women.
In this way he shows his feelings in a more explosive way. She shows her evolution as an artist, making a musical, conceptual and aesthetic turn that surprises and leaving aside her introspective face that she made known in her previous album. «This is a curious road, I have done many things, I have entropessat with my mateixa, and I continue to do so. "Music in a world is to be continually reminded that your waltz, that you are capable, because the world and look strange," is how Sandra Monfort expresses on social networks her path to reaching The monkey.
