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While we’re hibernating in the studio, working on new original recordings, we wanted to share an acoustic Beatles cover with you, which we recorded as part of The Duo Sessions album we released last year.
“I’m Looking Through You” from one of our favourite Beatles albums “Rubber Soul”, adapted for 1 guitar, 1 banjo and 2 vocals. Hope you like it!
We adore this song. There is something about its brutal honesty paired with a rather sweet and innocent sounding melody and arrangement. On almost all levels, these lyrics have never been more relevant than these days.
To watch ALL 15 of the Duo Sessions from our album + 6 news ones from “Season 2”, please consider joining the MLT Club here.
Since last year’s wall calendars had sold out within a couple of days, we decided to make some again for 2022. They’ll be shipped out at the end of the month but to secure one for yourself already you can pre-order now!
We hope that’s what you’re having today. A laidback weekend, maybe accompanied with some good ol’ music. Let us get you started with this new video! 🙂
This is another clip from a show at the legendary Cavern Club from a few years ago. We’ve shared videos of that performance with you before and released the entire 28 songs on a double album last year.
We love the chaotic energy of this Small Faces tune. It’s one of our all-time favourite covers to perform live!
Feel free to share this video with your friends to wish them a happy Sunday, and of course you can grab the album that the song is on here.
If you’d like to watch more videos from that performance, you can find many, many more clips over at the MLT Club. You can find all the info on how to join here.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and as always … stay groovy!
We know that many of you reading this will have first discovered our music through our cover of “Drive My Car” on YouTube. It’s the most watched video on our channel!
It came from a performance back in Austria in 2012 during our first year of regularly performing with a band.
Well, that song stayed on our setlist ever since then, and today we uploaded a version of it that we had recorded at the Cavern Club in Liverpool … 4 years later!
As musicians and performers we have changed quite a bit over the years, and we love seeing the difference in the two videos. We are still very proud of the 2012 version but we think you can tell that we have learnt to have a bit more fun on stage 😉
New Original Music
This live recording is also the opening track of the album Live at the Cavern Club which we released last year. You can listen to the whole performance of that night (28 songs) on CD or Download, and of course we also warmly welcome you to join the MLT Club to get your CD signed by us before we ship it off.
We are also uploading a new song in video form from that performance to the MLT Club every 2-4 weeks. By the end of the year the full concert will be available to view there, and of course we also upload a lot of other content there twice a week ranging from exclusive Duo Sessions to Q&A videos.
Also, as a reminder, the black & yellow MLT T-shirts got restocked for the very last time and once they’re gone, they’re gone! So, if you are planning to grab one, don’t wait too long 🙂
That’s all for today! We are still working on our next big video project for a single off the upcoming album, but that will take a few more weeks to plan, shoot and edit. It’ll be a big one!
We’ll keep you posted, and of course you can always follow us on our Social Media channels (Facebook, Instagram & Twitter) for some more regular updates.
We would like to share a new video with you today. This one is from our second “season” of Duo Session videos that we release monthly over at the MLT Club. We were so excited to finally do a new Simon & Garfunkel cover!
All their songs lend themselves perfectly for an acoustic Duo Session, but we chose “Sound Of Silence”, possibly Simon & Garfunkel’s biggest and most beloved song. We remember singing it with our school choir and being spellbound by its gorgeous harmonies.
It surprises us to say this, but this song means so much more to us now that we have spent so many hours singing, practising and then ultimately recording it.
It’s one of those songs that we felt we knew inside out for years, but every time we would play it in preparation of this Duo Session the words and meaning would deepen a little. By the end, we almost understood its true meaning 😉
New Original Music
If you would like to support the making of more Duo Sessions like this and watch plenty more of them, you can always join us over at the MLT Club. We have 28 more Duo Sessions uploaded with more in the making as we speak!
We also just released a new original single there last week called “I Bought Myself A Politician”. We will start working on a video for it soon but if you’d already like to hear it and what it’s about, you’ll find it in the MLT Club, too!
Today we are celebrating our 27th birthday so we simply had to post this song – first released on our album ORANGE.
It’s called Club 27 and pays homage to all the wonderful talent we have lost at the age of 27, an eerily common age for famous musicians to pass away at. This phenomenon has led to the creation of the 27 Club, an unofficial list that includes the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse … the list goes on.
We know the timing of this release might appear a bit morbid, but we’ve always had a slightly macabre sense of humour. 😉
Now, we don’t have the slightest of intentions of joining that club this year, so rest assured this isn’t an announcement! We’ll keep eating our vegetables and putting on our seatbelts … We’ve got a new album to finish anyway!
The video was created and animated by the two of us. We enjoyed playing around with it and using some new animation effects that we hadn’t explored previously. We know it’s “just” a lyric video but again … we’ve got a new album to finish! 🙂
Here is to all the talent lost too soon and the magic they left behind,
Mona & Lisa
Birthday Sale – 27% OFF everything!
As a little gift from us to you, we are doing a store-wide sale for the next 5 days. That means you can get 27% off everything from our CDs, Downloads, DVDs and Vinyl to merchandise like shirts, hoodies, towels, mugs, posters, guitar straps and more. It also includes the MLT Club membership subscription.
Just enter Coupon Code CELEBRATE27 during checkout and the discount will be applied.
As we’re writing this, thick snowflakes are drifting by our window. That doesn’t happen a lot here in England and it reminds us of the winters at home in Austria. Everything is quiet and making us feel a little melancholic. It kind of fits with the song we are sharing with you today, so we are embracing the sentimental feelings as we’re sipping on our hot cup of tea and typing up this Newsletter (well, it’s me Mona typing right now while Lisa is preparing the Social Media posts that will go out later :-)).
How are you all feeling? How has the start of 2021 been for you? Are you happy and doing alright? These past few weeks we have been busy preparing for some new Duo Session videos. As you might know, they are a series of stripped-back videos that we are releasing regularly over at the MLT Club. We also upload them on YouTube sometimes, and today we want to share with you a Duo Session of our original “Close To You”. It is a song we initially released on our album ORANGE as a full studio production, but this more “minimal” version with just the two of us is part of our first “The Duo Sessions” compilation album (that you can find here).
We will start posting the first new exclusive Duo Sessions of the year over at the MLT Club next month, and of course we warmly invite you to stop by there if you are able to do so and support our creative endeavours.
We are about to do a big relaunch of the MLT Club with a lot of upgraded features but we will let you know about that in more detail soon! The weekly videos there will remain a constant, and last Friday we just posted a brand new 20-minute Q&A video all about “Live Performing”. We talk about our future plans, our biggest mess ups and the time we performed with Rod Stewart in the audience. 😉
On the coming Friday we will be drawing the winners of a give-away for a signed drum head and t-shirt (there is still time to enter)!
We hope you’re having a lovely Sunday and send big virtual hugs to you all,
We’re definitely not alone when we say that we cannot wait for this year to be over. While we are very aware that bad things can always get worse, we are still hopeful and optimistic for what the next year will hold in store for us all.
We thought it appropriate to send you over to the new year with some good ole’ music. Here is us performing “My Generation” by one of our favourites, The Who. It was recorded at the Cavern Club in Liverpool and is available on your new album Live at the Cavern Club that came out only a few weeks ago.
We cannot wait to one day be back on a sweaty stage with people focusing on the music and atmosphere, not the space that is or isn’t between them. But until then, we will keep sharing our favourite moments from being on stage (a lot more videos can be found in the MLT Club), more music and videos, new covers and original songs and a whole lot more that we have planned for 2021!
So bring it on, we’ll see you on the flip side!
Grab a 2021 Wall Calendar!
We have a limited number of wall calendars for 2021 available at our webstore!
It contains 12 pictures as well as little notes of important MLT related days – like when our albums were released, our 1st YouTube video, etc.
During the holidays we were holding an Advent Calendar challenge at the MLT Club with the chance to win/earn a free calendar at the end. We have printed more than we knew we were going to need so we’d have a few extra left to sell for those that would like one.
So, you can grab one now until stock lasts! Once they are gone they are gone, at least until 2022. 🙂
We hope everyone is doing well and getting ready for Christmas!
We have spent the last month working on new music, creating content for the MLT Club Advent Calendar, preparing for an upcoming live stream (more on that later) and baking and eating our bodyweight in Christmas cookies.
But today we want to share a video with you that we had recorded earlier this year. If you own our The Duo Sessions album you will know this stripped-back duo version already and if you own our ORANGE album you will know it in its original fully-produced form!
So far, only MLT Club Members will have seen the video for it as it was originally recorded as a Club exclusive. Today we want to share it with you all!
It’s a sweet and nasty song … enjoy! 😉
MLT Club Live Stream tomorrow
If you’re an MLT Club member you’ll be seeing us as soon as tomorrow when we will be able to tick off one more thing from the bucket list: Our first MLT Club live stream!
It will be a great way to say thank you to all members who have been absolutely amazing this year. We’ve been having lots of fun this past month with the virtual MLT Club Advent Calendar and we feel all the wonderful interactions strengthened the sense of community within the MLT Club further.
As a Christmas surprise we decided that we will conclude the festive Advent Calendar celebrations with an MLT Club exlusive Christmas live stream.
We will be playing a couple of songs, answering fan questions, opening Christmas fan mail, eating even more cookies and just hanging out with everybody. We’re really excited and hope to see many of your there!
You will find the streaming link in the MLT Club tomorrow and we’ll also send out another remind email to all Members.
We’ll start tomorrow, 23rd December at 10 pm GMT, here are some useful time conversions:
London – 10 pm Los Angeles – 2 pm New York – 5 pm Berlin – 11 pm Moscow – 1 am Sydney – 9 am
And if you aren’t a member yet, your can of course still change that 🙂
Get -20% on our “MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more” series for the duration of Beatleweek 2020! (August 27 – September 1)
To go along with this year’s virtual Beatleweek (find how and when we are a part of it here) we decided to do a sale on our “MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more” cover compilation albums Vol. 1 – 3.
What better way to celebrate the Fab Four’s music and get into a beatley mood?
You can click on each of the CDs above to take a closer look at the track list, reviews and song samples. For the Downloads, click here: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 1-3 (Bundle).
And, as always, if you would like us to sign your CDs, please make sure to join the MLT Club first! It’s one of the many perks of being a member of our very own virtual Club.
Always stay beatley, always stay groovy!
Mona & Lisa
No pre-order phase, no teasers and no waiting. It’s out now and available for everyone: The Duo Sessions
The 15 songs on this album are all intimate, mostly acoustic versions of some of our and your favourite covers and original songs. Just the two of us (usually with two guitars) in front of a couple of microphones without fancy studio production. If we go by your feedback, you’ve been really enjoying these more stripped-back arrangements ? And we love doing them!
We initially recorded all of the songs on the new album, including “It Ain’t Me Babe”, for the MLT Club. It’s our own cosy corner of the Internet where we are sharing a more personal side of our work and LOTS of extra content and music.
We haven’t teased this album project very much so this is probably coming out of the blue for most of you. We’ve been recording these Duo Sessions for the MLT Club for a while now, and since we began to stack up quite a nice amount of them we decided to give them a proper home and release them on their own album.We mixed originals and various 60’s covers, some from artists that we have never covered before (like Joni Mitchell or The Who).
The track list:
Good Day Sunshine (The Beatles)
The Kids Are Alright (The Who)
It Ain’t Me Babe (Bob Dylan)
Close To You (MonaLisa Twins)
Tonight You Belong To Me (Billy Rose, Lee David)
Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
Imagine (John Lennon)
All About Falling In Love (MonaLisa Twins)
Tired Of Waiting For You (The Kinks)
Baby’s in Black (The Beatles)
Pretty Flamingo (Manfred Mann)
Sweet Lorraine (MonaLisa Twins)
I’m Looking Through You (The Beatles)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles)
If you are considering ordering the album and would like to get your copy signed, we warmly welcome you to stop by the MLT Club to try it out as we will be signing all CDs for MLT Club members only. 🙂 We still offer the coupon code Month50 for 50% off the first month and code Year10 for 10% off the first year.
We are absolutely thrilled to release this new album and hope you will like it – along with the new video release from today!
We want to make clear that this release is not replacing our next original album which is still very much in the works! It is simply a bonus project that many people were asking for 🙂
Thanks to all of you for caring and listening and an extra special thanks to all MLT Club members for inspiring and supporting this album project. ♥
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