Mono: Biography

• Overview
• Discography
• Biography
• Related Artists

• Olive
• Solex
• Air
• Laika
• The Lucy Nation
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• Massive Attack
• John Barry
• Portishead
• Nellee Hooper

• Violet Indiana

• Martin Virgo
• Siobhan de Maré

Formed:

Jan 1, 1996 in London, England

Genres:

Electronic & Dance Music, Trip Hop Music, Dance Pop Music

Decades Active:

1990's

Artistic Quality

Low

Popularity

Low

Ratings Guide

Influenced by cool jazz,'60s pop and classic film-soundtracks, the trip-hop duo Mono formed around vocalist Siobhan De Maré and producer Martin Virgo, a one-time member of Nellee Hooper's production team which worked on Massive Attack's seminal "Unfinished Sympathy" as well as Björk's Debut. After Virgo hooked up with De Maré in mid-1996, the pair recorded the Life in Mono EP and signed to Mercury by the end of the year. After working on their debut album Formica Blues, Mono gained a comparatively high profile through an appearance on the soundtrack to the American film Great Expectations. Formica Blues was released in America in February 1998, six months after its British appearance.

- John Bush, All Music Guide