Monta个人资料：

Monta确实是inide界一个不可多得的人才。其实这个不知何意的monta是德国籍英国人Tobias Kuhn 一个人撑起的乐团。这个相貌平平的Kuhn是另一个德国乐队Miles的主唱兼吉他手。Miles组建于1992年，当时Kuhn正在德国的Wuerzbery大学念书，然后遇到了喜好独立音乐的 Mike Silver 跟 Ronny Rock，之后一切就顺理成章了。乐队组建不久并自制发行了一张同名EP。1997年签约德国一家唱片公司并发行首张专辑The Day I Vanished。1999年出产第二张专辑，名字不详。两张专辑后乐队影响力逐渐扩大，由欧洲日本波及到了美国。2001年美国的独立音乐厂牌Feel Records签下了该乐队并于次年夏天发行了一张精选集Structure Vs. Happiness。 撇开Miles乐队不说，Monta应该算是Kuhn的一个solo project。2003年Monta发行第一张EP-Always Altamont，干净优美略带一点sadcore的独立流行风格从此确立。之后Monta总是作为配角给 Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, Elbow, Naked Lunch 等乐队做助阵演出。2005年，Monta终于带来了一张一鸣惊人的Where Circles Begin，这是一张完全可以进入史上最动听独立流行前十名的作品（仅代表个人意见）。两年后的The Brilliant Masses依旧保持原风格，贡献了诸如Good morning stranger之类的名曲，但并没有大的突破（事实上可以听出来Good morning stranger这首歌副歌部分被im sorry附了体）。 主唱的Kuhn的声线跟Death Cab For Cutie相似度达到了90%，都是比较适合演绎小indie作品的嗓子，干净，温和，有一点内敛，带一些青涩，很家常，因此让人听着舒服，并且“有一点动心”。Monta的歌词写得跟他的声音也是绝配，简洁却不粗浅，平白中又透出一点小意蕴。There are (at least) two acts who use the name Monta: 1) A one-man indie-folk act from Germany, and 2) A duo from Kansas City in the US making electronic music.1) Monta is the one-man project of Tobias Kuhn, formerly singer of Miles. Monta makes up the centre of his work - the bottom line of his musical labour. Monta can be tender as a whistle or roaring like thunder, from homey living rooms to a stage somewhere on the globe. After the ep “Always Altamont”, the highly acclaimed first longplayer “Where Circles Begin” had been released worldwide and made it to album of the week of the Sunday Times (UK) and the single “I’m Sorry” can still be heard as theme song of the japanese counterpart to CNN news. Now there’s a new single “Good Morning Stranger” and a new album - “The Brilliant Masses”!Brilliant indeed: a collection of eleven songs who ask for careful listening and instantaneously stare into your eyes. In a language often enciphered and metaphorical yet clearly coherent and radiant as a lighthouse. Songs who can alienate people and at the same time spend warmth. With awareness and luminosity Kuhn sums up the things and thoughts that motivate him and get him going. The song titles themselves make up the synopsis: love, estrangement, doubt, certainty, home, getting along, trust, disappointment, capitulation, achievement, loneliness, bliss and the never-ending search. Over and over and over again. Again and again packed in those awesome melodies which let the world shine in a different light for a moment or a little longer.