MONKS OF MALASPINA - Volume One LP Progressive but rather the cultural fringe

but rather the cultural fringe

Vernon moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter

Cronin's lyrics and melodies draw on the the stranger aspects of early American musical tradition

synthesizing the best elements of each into a monumental whole

the record’s elaborate

MONKS OF MALASPINA - Volume One LP Progressive but rather the cultural fringeThe MONKS OF MALASPINA debut release is a phantastical psychedelic mystery musical filled with dark woods wonder and honey comb clouds over sparkling fjords from deep within the mountains of Canada's British Columbia. Highway 101 ends here, or like this new record, begins. Members of the band call up roots from First Nation relations with Jesuit missionaries co mingled with a diverse offspring from a free love commune started in the 1970's. Most of