Crashbox, the new twelve-song opus Monkey House founder Don Breithaupt calls “the best album we’ve ever done, from the standpoint of songwriting, performance and production,” is ready for the world. Monkey House’s fifth album for ALMA Records will be released on June 6. Building on the success of 2019’s Friday and 2022’s Remember the Audio, […]
In its first week of release, the new Monkey House album Remember the Audio has gone to #1 on the iTunes jazz chart in both the U.S. and Canada. “It’s a real shot in the arm,” says Don Breithaupt. “We had to sit on this music during the pandemic for over a year, and having […]
Monkey House’s Friday has been nominated for Jazz Vocal Album of the Year at the forthcoming Juno Awards. In addition, longtime Monkey House engineer John Bailey has been nominated for Recording Engineer of the Year (his sixth nomination; he won in 2007), partly on the strength of his extraordinary work on Friday, Monkey House drummer […]
Don Breithaupt has co-written the new Chicago single, “All Over The World,” with Chicago vocalist Neil Donell. The track is the leadoff release from Chicago’s new Christmas album, and is currently riding high at #6 on the U.S. holiday airplay chart (the album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Holiday Album Sales chart). “I don’t know […]
The highly anticipated video for Monkey House’s “Shotgun” single is directed by the Academy Award-winning producer of The Shape of Water, J. Miles Dale. Monkey House co-producer and ALMA Records chief Peter Cardinali goes way back with Dale, and, knowing he was a fan, invited him to Toronto’s Noble Street Studios to watch the band […]
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“Our music is carefully produced and engineered, and we record and mix at 192kHz, which is basically the best possible resolution around right now,” says Monkey House founder/frontman Don Breithaupt. “Our audience appreciates the finer points of the listening experience. It’s the same crowd that digs Steely Dan, Pat Metheny, James Taylor and their ilk.” […]