ENDO MONK
GORT

Gort is the second double album by Endo Monk. The artist behind this project, however, is no stranger. Frank Schnütgen aka Hans Solo from ÄiTiem has also been known in the rap scene since 1991 for his experimental electro beats and productions. The artist also exhibits as a visual artist his name Frank Schnütgen in various galleries etc. and often combines these these events with analogue synthesizer live sessions.

With this album he continues his path, because Endo Monk's roots lie in the field of analogue and modular synthesizers, long before his career as ÄiTiem frontman and Äi-Tiem frontman and solo artist. The cover was also painted by the artist under his real name as a triptych in acrylic on canvas, as an analogy of "analog sound production" (modular synthesizers) to analog image creation (brush, paint, canvas). Endo Monk's universe!

Endo Monk aka Frank Schnütgen, who already had access to modular synthesizers like Formant, Korg and Moog in his school days with his school band, returns with this album to the time of warm, bubbling analogue sounds, but unmistakably peppered with his influences from the hip hop and electro scene of the last decades. The whole thing is peppered with science fiction language quotations. Since this album is mainly analogue, it was obvious to design and paint the cover analogue as well. He exhibits in various exhibitions under his real name Frank Schnütgen and has already designed covers, videos and stage details for various artists (Andhim, Doro Pesch, Def Benski (company), XPQ21 (Jeyenne).

Endo Monk, who also produces all his own videos and likes to act as a VJ in addition to analogue live sessions, will provide a few more surprises in the further course of 2023, whereby there will always be cross-genre and cross-scene events. This is also an integral part of the new Endo Monk universe.