Back in
1998 at the very Initial and also a Hardest struggling time on Nepali Music
Scene , Scene was gradually getting louder with just some bands and very least
listening ears . At the same time passionate
young group arise as “Monkey Temple” Its already been around quarter century that band is
still able to continue there strong passion providing a beautiful Modern rock
Music . Back in 2002 “Monley Temple
“ came out with there debut full length album titled "Black Bee and The Flower" and after it just being busy on the stages
around Kathmandu Valley and also some major cities overhere In Nepal they
hardly spent next 10 years and came out with secand Album titled “Shades Of Grey” . “Anumati”
one of the creation of Monkey Temple was the very first song to be aired on MTV . Getting different obstacles on Line-up on
the band though they are still busy on
stages and also some of there new singles too . You guys also can catch them live at Irish Pub /
Kathmandu on every Friday Night too .
Inquiring about there Journey we “Lets
Support Nepali Bands “ caught one of
the Founding member of the Band “Sareen Deoja”
who is frontman of the band
he shares something about his band on his own words .
Monkey Temple got Slight change on Lineup, Lets
start our short conversation with new Line-Up?
Yes, we always had line-up changes , I do not blame
anyone for leaving the band , it’s
pretty difficult to keep going strong in
this field , it’s very easy to stray away as in country such as Nepal Music Scene
can never serve as a career only few
have done real well , For me Monkey Temple and Music in not only a passion it’s
an addiction now so I think I will keep on going no matter what goes . This New
line up we have Dipesh Shrestha on guitar who comes from a Metal Background , he
used to be one of the lead guitarist for the band “Define Mental” But he
is a very versatile and a mature guitar player who pretty much
fits right into our band as he is also very much influenced by Blues,
Alternative Rock and other forms of Rock
Genre. he plays a lot of RHCP and I
think the guy has potential to play any style or any Genre in terms of Western
rock oriented music. We have Zenis on Bass who also plays for Ashesh Nekhvam
and of course Pratap on Drum who is the
only constant member of the band since
2010 , I consider Pratap as an Original Member of the band having contributed a
lot to the band along with drumming contribution on two full-fledged albums.
Being one of the Old member on group, is it
difficult to Continue the project ?
Yes its extremely difficult, Honestly speaking I have found
out that it’s pretty hard for people to stick around if they are not the
forming members . Only Forming members who have an attachment with the music
and brand name that they have created stick around for a long period of time
because it’s their brainchild , it’s their baby
I have seen that with a lot of other bands because except for name and music
you can proudly say that you have created there is not much financial gain but
for a forming member it’s the Name ,the
legacy that they have created which means a lot to them more than anything and in Monkey Temple’s
case its only me all the other forming members have parted ways long time back,
I consider Pratap to be the only other original member who have contributed a lot to the band
without being a Forming member of this band.
Hearing about you we had listen that Monkey
Temple is now not actively on scene, You guys were lost somewhere after your
last album launch is it true?
Yes after the last album the whole country got lost (Laughs)
We had a big Earthquake , it was right
after the release of our Third self-titled Album and then our long time Ulto guitarist also ran away from the country
(Laughs) Just Joking , Our long time left handed guitarist migrated to a
different country as he probably got better job opportunity with his
educational background so that was the
period we took a break from the scene but now with the new , young and
Enthusiastic line up we are very much active and we are looking forward to
playing a lot of Shows in the Future.
What will be the next Release now?? New Album Or
any Official Videos?
I Think we Will be Releasing few Videos but
not a new album not anytime soon , I think we might take a long break from
coming out with a full album but we will
keep on pushing and coming out with the Singles.
“ Monkey temple” we want to take this band as
Lyrical band, How you guys work on Writing?
Well I do most of the lyrics writing and I think Lyrics
writing has to come out from the inside ,, I don’t really sit down to write lyrics it just happens you never know and then you write it down on a piece of paper and later
compose it or sometimes you do both simultaneously.
Is Nepali Music scene is satisfied? or need some
Changes ??
We all know that this country needs a
Change and so does our Music scene. I don’t really want to talk about what kind of changes but I have
seen a lot of mediocre musicians succeed more than the real talented ones here
in our music scene I guess the mediocre ones know how to lie to your face and
make people happy so they succeed not by the qualities of musical skills in them but by what they call in our Nepali
Lingo “CHAPLUSI “ I Guess the real ones are always Blunt.
Is there anything to share with your well
wishers?
Thank you all for supporting us , An Artist or a band is nothing without their Supporters , We
love you all and we will keep on pushing ourselves no matter what, We would
like to urge all the people who have
watched our videos on YouTube and have supported us with so many views and likes and comments to keep sharing our
videos and letting more organizers know that you would want us to come play
live shows in different corners of the world and lastly we would like to thank
Woozwol bhai and “Lets Support Nepali Bands” team for their tremendous support towards
Nepali Music.
Follow Them on there Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/monkeytemple/
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