Auf Immer - Music

Vocalist Mona Mur Born Sabine Bredy In Hamburg Germany To Polish Parents First Graced The German Music Scene In 1982. In Her Quest For The Angry Sound Of Her Times She Soon Hooked Up With FM Einheit Marc Chung And Alex Hacke Of Einstürzende Neubauten. As Mona Mur Und Die Mieter They Recorded The 12inch "Jeszcze Polska" Straight Away Conquering NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS's Single Of The Week Slot. Distinctly Averse To Commercial Success The Group Decided To Disband After Their First Release. Mona Mur Lived A Wild Life In Paris And Berlin Which Shaped The Black Sides Of Her Following Musical Projects. Together With Members Of Einstürzende Neubauten Stricher And Flucht Nach Vorn She Resurrected A New Incarnation Of Mona Mur In 1985 Playing Many Concerts In The Netherlands Denmark Sweden Bremen With Sonic Youth And Berlin - Foundation Stones For Her Cult Image Until Today. Then She Finished Her First Proper Album The Self-Titled Mona Mur 1988 RCA With The Help Of Dieter Meier Yello JJ Burnel And Dave Greenfield The Stranglers . In 1990 Mona Mur And Dieter Meier Hired The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra And Polish Rockstar And Producer Grzegorz Ciechowski Republica For Their Album WARSAW Unreleased At The Time . Mona Decided To Take A Break From Singing And Turned Her Energy To Taekwondo Achieving The 3rd DAN. She Entered The German National Team And Became International German Vice Champion Twice. In 1996 She Founded Her Company Monamur Music Production Soon Becoming Composer And Audio Designer For Software Developer TERRATOOLS Potsdam-Babelsberg. There She Shaped A Special Style Of "electronic Orchestration" Resulting In Soundscapes Of Hallucinatory And Alien Attraction. She Has Been Credited In Video Games Such As Velvet Assassin Ballance Culpa Innata II And Kane And Lynch 2 Dog Days. Director Fatih Akin Used Three Of Her Songs For His Much-Awarded Film "Head On / Gegen Die Wand". Today Mona Mur Is Back To Singing And Performing. Her 2004 CD-Compilation Into Your Eye A Retrospective Collection Of Her More Than 20 Years Of Work Not Only Contains The Typical 80s Punk Wave Elements Of Her Music And Some Of The Orchestrated Warsaw-Tracks But Also Five Dark Wave Songs Written And Produced With Multi-Instrumentalist Christian St. Claire.
Since 2007 Mona Mur Is Collaborating With Performer Guitarist And Producer EN ESCH Former Frontman Of German/US American Elektro-Industrial Outfit KMFDM. Together As Mona Mur & En Esch Their First Album "120 T Age - The Fine Art Of Beauty And Violence" Was Released In February 2009 By Berlin Independent Label PALE MUSIC. Mona Mur @ Myspace.Com read less