Monade: Biography

• Overview
• Discography
• Biography
• Related Artists

• Beach House
• Broadcast
• Laika
• Moonshake

• The United States of America

• Pram
• Stereolab
• M

Genre:

Rock Music

Decades Active:

1990's|2000's

One of Stereolab's many spin-offs and side projects, Monade (pronounced mon-ard) features Laetitia Sadier and Pram's Rosie Cuckston. The duo began collaborating in the mid-'90s, and Sadier recorded the first Monade tracks in 1996 at Pram's studio, with Cuckston playing and also helping to engineer the session. Some of these tracks were released by Duophonic as the Sunrise Telling and Witch Hazel/Ode to a Keyring singles. Sadier continued to record at Stereolab's own studio without Cuckston, and one of these tracks, "Cache Cache," ended up as a B-side on Stereolab's Calimero single. In between her Stereolab duties, Sadier completed enough material for her debut album, Socialisme Ou Barbarie: The Bedroom Recordings, which was released by Duophonic in Europe and by Drag City in the U.S. in spring 2003.

- Heather Phares, All Music Guide