Introducing Malcolm Del Monte, by Quiet Marauder

Introducing Malcolm Del Monte

by Quiet Marauder

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1.	One Of Many Voices 03:20	buy track
2.	Dreams Of Lamp Filament Numbers 01:45	buy track
3.	The Full Del Monte Variety (feat. Malcolm Del Monte) 02:54	buy track
4.	Momma Mia! I Made You Some Sangria! (feat. Malcolm Del Monte & Kadesha Drija) 04:17	buy track
5.	The Provocation (feat. Malcolm Del Monte) 04:31	buy track
6.	A Journey Towards Total Inward Isolation 02:03	buy track
7.	Then, Nothing 03:07	buy track
8.	Let's See What You Could Have Won 01:32	buy track
9.	The Jolly Green Giant (feat. My Name Is Ian) 02:48	buy track
10.	Milk Tray Man (feat. Mathias Kom) 02:55	buy track
11.	Jet From Gladiator (feat. Kadesha Drija) 02:52	buy track
12.	Malcolm Come Back 03:11	buy track
13.	Plenty Of Fish In The Sea (feat. Malcolm Del Monte) 04:00	buy track
14.	Better Than We Could Have Been (feat. The Full Cast) 03:20	buy track

about

The arrival of Malcolm Del Monte was both unexpected and, as it turns out, unavoidable.

Over the last few years, with the pandemic and its ongoing reach into our lives, I think we’ve all maybe struggled in our own individual ways. Limited socialisation opportunities, a sense of imprisonment, 24/7 panicked news coverage - none of these are markers of great well-being.

For me, the lack of opportunities for social contact and externalisation meant a lot of things that would normally be breathed out into the world instead stewed internally inside of me. I listened carefully to my own confused inner monologues. There were very few other things to focus on each day.

Over time, those monologues gave birth to Malcolm, my new imaginary friend and a counterpoint to the drab, depressing reality engulfing us…a nostalgic exemplar of mischief, and better, more innocent times.

Naturally, when realising your imagination is creating new friends for you, the knee-jerk response is to hold yourself to account, chastise and rebel against your brain. As it turns out, for me at least, that was not the best approach. Without Malcolm and his intuitive awareness of my weaknesses, foibles and flaws, without those vital internal thoughts that reconcile us to reality, there was a big, big hole. One that could be filled with even more terrible things than were there already; a lingering pale.

So, I guess the message of this album is don’t be too hard on yourself. And definitely not in a world that is as bewildering as the one we have been living in for the last however long.

Embrace your inner Malcolm, he might not be as bad as you think.

Simon M. Read & Quiet Marauder

credits

released October 27, 2023

This album was recorded in a Snowbird Studios pop-up in a beautiful villa in Lourinhã, Portugal. Huge thanks to Jake Nicoll and Mathias Kom for achieving so much in so little time with us. Big thanks also to Ed Truckell for another pristine mastering job, as well as Jake Nicoll for incomparably great work mixing the album together. And to Rhodri Brooks for the cover art photography, as well as, obviously Bubblewrap Collective for the additional design and releasing this in the first place.

The ongoing inspiration of Douglas Adams, Robert Kurvitz and Disco Elysium have also had a profound bearing on how this album was conceived, written and produced.

For Introducing Malcolm Del Monte the Quiet Marauder players were as follows:

Simon M. Read - Vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar

Rowan Liggett - Vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar

Ian Williams - Vocals, backing vocals, electric guitar

Kadesha Drija - Vocals, backing vocals

Jonathan Day - Synth backdrops (tracks 2, 6, 8, and 12)

Jake Nicoll - Flute, piano, bamboo clarinet, leather belt, hand percussion, synths, drum machine (tracks 4, 7, and 11)

Mathias Kom - Vocals, hand percussion

All songs mixed by Jake Nicoll, mastered by Ed Truckell, and written by Quiet Marauder.

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