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Format: CD-Digipack, booklet w/ photos and liner notes
Artist: Mona Mur
Release date: August, 2021
Original release: 1988 on RCA
Produced by: JJ Burnel
Executive producer: Dieter Meier
Artwork: Petrus Wandrey
Bass, Guitar, Percussion: JJ Burnel (The Stranglers)
Keyboards: Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers)
Engineer: D. Greenfield, JJ Burnel, Ower Morris
Remastered by: En Esch (KMFDM, Pigface)

500 copy limited edition. New song order. Plus one new version of Venus, a maxi version of Bastard and 4 songs from the Mona Mur & Die Mieter EP Jeszcze Polska from 1982.

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- More Mona Mur products on play loud:
Those Days Are Over (CD)
Delinquent (CD)
120 Tage (CD)
Do With Me What You Want (CD)

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  • CD
    Includes 4 songs from the Mona Mur & Die Mieter EP
    Jeszcze Polska, 1982

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    Regular
    400 copies
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  • LP
    Hand-numbered and signed by Mona Mur
    100 copies

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    • 01 Ritz

      4:36

    • 02 Mezcal

      3:42

    • 03 Bastard

      4:15

    • 04 Jealous

      3:33

    • 05 Surabaya Johnny

      7:03

    • 06 Venus

      3:25

    • 07 My man

      4:04

    • 08 Snake

      4:05

    • 09 Auf immer

      3:31

    • 10 007

      3:14

    • 11 Venus 2020 (bonus track)

      3:29

    • 12 My lie*

      2:50

    • 13 Ein bisschen Frieden*

      4:10

    • 14 Eintagsfliegen*

      4:17

    • 15 Jeszcze Polska*

      2:56

*From the Mona Mur & Die Mieter EP Jeszcze Polska from 1982

"Borsig and Einheit form half of Mona Mur's MIETER (Tenants) who are equally adept of conjuring up moods to match the misery of various historical defeats. Mona swears allegiance to no one and everyone, her unique view of both sides of the Curtain standing her in good stead to trade off either's atrocities one against the other. "The cold war - the dead liead the dead!" she sneers in "A Little Bit of Peace". Her weapons are a passionately bloody voice, a sharp tongue and a gift for mutilingual puns ("My Lai - My Lie") which, with the benefit of hindsights and jarring system shocks, she applies to acerbic commentaries on the East-West divided.
The most potent is unsurprisingly the title track "Jeszcze Polska". The whole cod-religious purple mach tune is a persuasive reminder of Poland's blight: foreign occupying powers. In their own way, Borsig and Mona Mur' s urges to escape inform their respective music with an aura of recklessness so lacking in most western forms."
Chris Bohn (NME, May/June 1982)


MONA MUR

MONA MUR, vocalist of her own class, songwriter, music producer, 80s survivor. Together with Alexander Hacke, FM Einheit, Mark Chung (all of "Einstürzende Neubauten") and organ virtuoso Nikko Weidemann ("Moka Efti Orchestra") responsible for underground hits such as “Snake”, “120 Tage“ or “Eintagsfliegen”.

She first graced the music scene with the 12” “Jeszcze Polska” (SUPERMAX 1982) which immediately claimed London’s NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS’ “Single of the Week” slot: “Her weapons are a passionately bloody voice and a gift for multiligual puns she applies to acerbic commentaries.”

At the time Mur lived a wild life in Hamburg, Paris and Berlin which shaped her unique and uncompromising musical persona. A violent sound of darkest shades and concerts in manic intensity and morbid slowbeat-chic were foundation stones for her cult image until today.

Mona Mur is also a composer and sound designer, her music and soundcapes are to be found in movies like "Gegen die Wand" and video games such as "Kane & Lynch2: Dog Days".

In summer 1987 Mona Mur met legendary "Stranglers" musicians JJ Burnel and Dave Greenfield on their compound in beautiful and enchanted East-Anglia to create her first full album "MONA MUR". The synth pop pearl with Dave Greenfield's signature and unique keyboard arpeggios and Burnel's brutal and elegant bass lines strongly influencing the production sound was released 1988 by RCA and was celebrated by filmmakers Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch in their movie "Die Jungfrauenmaschine" - which contains a MM live performance of the song "Ritz". The official "Ritz" video was shot by Eduard Oleschak in Vienna on Heldenplatz and Hofburg and in Palais Saurau in the city of Graz, Austria. The album also features a special re-recording of "Surabaya Johnny" using tracks by FM Einheit, Alex Hacke, Nikko Weidemann, Thomas Stern and Siewert Johannsen (the 2nd Mona Mur Band line up) with additional drum tracks by Dave Larcombe ("The Bible").

The 2021 re-reissue is remastered by EN ESCH (KMFDM, Pigface), comes in a new running order with a special version of "Jealous" and a bonus track, "Venus 2020",featured as credits's song of the upcoming Monika Treut movie "Genderation " (2021).

“Her dark, dramatic voice lets our blood flow backwards.”
Bewegungsmelder ZÜRICH



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