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Isolation is no stranger to the Faroese people living 62 degrees north of nowhere isolated from the rest of the world. However, during the height of the global pandemic, the entire world experienced social isolation on a grand scale; cut off from family and friends. We all hunkered down, kept our distance from everyone protecting ourselves from infection. The lack of affection took a toll on everyone’s mental health and well being.
In the fall of 2020, Anna was alone in Iceland where she began studying for a Masters in Music with no possibility of interacting and making new friends. One night, out of unbearable loneliness, she tried to contact her husband and musical partner, Arnold Ludvig, composer and bassist of MonkeyRat in the Faroe Islands. Saddened by her inability to reach him, upon her return home from a park, words started overflowing her mind. Inspired, Anna quickly started jotting down all the words that kept pouring from her head and wrote this poem – Isolation. To this day, she is grateful and thanks her husband for being unreachable.
What started out as poem in Anna’s new artistic practice, Poetry w/ electronics, it took a surprising turn to the sound of psychedelic rock reminiscent of the 60’s and 70’s rock music era. The song performed live was recorded at Soundscape Studio in DK, by female award-winning sound engineer, Louise Nipper with MonkeyRat’s award-winning musicians, Alain Apaloo on guitar, Arnold Ludvig on bass, Jens Stoklund on drums and frontwoman, musical director, poet/lyricist, Anna Iachino on vocals. MonkeyRat delivered a pre-release live performance of Isolation at Copenhagen’s Winter Jazz Festival on February 26th, 2022 where the audience went wild rocking out to the chorus, What a Crazy World!
lyrics
Isolation
Isolation forces beings become a whole as an entire One
Here’s a chance to get to know oneself, meet a stranger that happens to be u
I know, it’s hard, I once lived on a rock, in the middle of the ocean
Was forced to face myself, meet someone I hardly knew
´Twas the best and worst thing that ever happened to me
The knowledge of self was the gift and opportunity
Isolation - time to live as One, as One nation, Isolation to Humanation
Distractions are now hard to come by
Be a magnet to yourself in your mind's eye
There’s so much gold in them there inner chills
Light the light inside your soul, be quiet, be still
No matter how small the man made structure in this juncture has reduced our flame
My flame was reduced to a gas stove’s pilot light
Uncharted territory, unmapped, unseen was such a fright
I know it can be so dark in isolation when u don’t know who u are
How can u love someone u don’t even know, so close and yet so far
But that’s the beauty of it, it’s all about getting to know one with love
As u finally are faced with four walls, let them burst the flames of your creation
Isolation to creation
No more indignation
No more mass incarceration
No more divided nations
Divide and conquer
Divide and con me and u and him and her
Indoctrination and separation
As they rule
Made us all out to be fools
Define and take your own space
Let no one and no thing interfere
There is only love and fear
As we face ourselves, face to face
Know that we are One, the human race
Forget the lines, the man made maps
Look at all the man-made crap
All them man-made facts
The generational gaps and man-made mishaps
Oil spills
As man kills
everything in sight
Short sighted
Wars ignited
Set all aflame
Like Hitler's and Nero's man-made fires
The USA, all man-made empires
What a crazy world
Isolation - the only way out
is within
By: Anna Iachino 2020
credits
released April 15, 2022
Lyrics: Anna Iachino
Music: Anna Iachino & Arnold Ludvig
Producers: Anna Iachino & Arnold Ludvig
Mix: Louise Nipper
Master: Óli Poulsen
MonkeyRat released the following albums and singles: Fuck The Jante Law - 2010. Sunshine - 2012. 4 funky singles w/ The
Hentze Horns - 2016. Get into The Light - hip-hop/gospel single w/ Debbie, Deborah, & Joanita - 2018. funky Good Morning Reykjavík single - 2020, pop U Gotta Love Being U single - 2020. The Child ft. Anna Sofía Skoradal dream pop - 2022. psychedelic rock Isolation - 2022....more
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