MONSOON & WIEUCA cobill from Athens, Georgia!

629 South 8th Street,Fernandina Beach FL 32034

13 November, 2021

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Mocama Brewery presents... Athens, Georgia indie-rock superstars Monsoon & Wieuca! All ages show with Doors @ 8pm, Music @ 9pm! Monsoon is a three piece indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia who stitch together pieces of orchestral rock and gargantuan harmony sections to create a finetuned epic of sorrow and madness. Their upcoming album "Ghost Party" is set to release Fall of 2021. It wasn’t long after the release of Monsoon's debut album “Ride A’Rolla,” that the band garnered shocking and unexpected success. A couple months after the initial release, Chandler was contacted by Toyota to use the title track on a commercial for the new 2016 Toyota Corolla. From there, the commercial landed a spot in the 2016 Super Bowl right after the half time performance. “I had no idea something of that magnitude would happen at such an early part in our story. That kind of thing just doesn’t happen. We were very lucky." Post Super Bowl, both members of Monsoon [Sienna Chandler and Joey Kegel] have been lying low, quietly fine tuning a project they've teased as "Ghost Party." “I was 15 and 16 when I wrote our first album. I barely knew how to play guitar and sing, but an album needed to get done, so we made it happen. The Toyota placement helped my ego with the thinking I could MAYBE catch music as a blessed constant in my everyday life and have that become an extension of sustainability for my band mates and I. Since then, I’ve been able to really articulate the type of music I want to be writing. Not in a pompous way, but you just get closer to your final form as time unfolds. I’ve become a better guitar player, a better musician, with a better grasp on what it is I’d like to be playing and listening to. I went to recording school, learned a few party tricks, and here we are with an almost entirely different band from where we started. Our upcoming album “Ghost Party” is a complete departure from the fast paced, youthful punk riffs Ride A’Rolla so effortlessly brought to the table. It didn’t happen intentionally, but as you grow so does your comprehension and ability to salt and pepper your music. Certain sounds become easier to relay. Revising your work, just as you would a paper, becomes crucial. And that’s what we did. We had just barely enough money to record Ghost Party in 2018, when Joey (drummer/soul mate/mixing engineer) took it upon himself to use the money we were to record, to rent out a studio and buy recording equipment. I’m so beyond thankful for him making that executive decision and that we took this back roads route in making the record because we wouldn’t have the same songs we have now. We learned the art of editing our own work, ripping it apart, and weaving back together something larger than we thought we were capable of. Working on this album with him for the past three years has been like waking up on Christmas morning every single day. Working on each and every one of these thousands of tracks (not an exaggeration) has brought me the sincerest form of joy. I love these songs, and I love that Joey and I birthed them solely ourselves. Every single sound you hear on this album is either him or I. Every dynamic change, EQ flare, song arrangement, mix note, instrument, and voice was brought into creation by us deciding the shape of its sound. I’m so proud of us both for taking the liberty to make this album of our own accord, and I’m speechless at what the Ghost Party album has become. " https://www.monsoonforever.com/ https://www.facebook.com/monsoonmusic https://www.instagram.com/monsoonband/ Wieuca is best known for Bowie-levels of style variation. Since forming in 2012, the group’s sound has run the gamut from alt-country to metalcore to hiphop, and this diverse pallet has led to past collaborations with indie favorite Faye Webster, as well as rapper and Awful records founder Father. It has also won the band opening slots for everything from Reel Big Fish to Dem Franchize Boyz. Wieuca sees themselves as part of the first generation that grew up on mp3’s, where for the first time, every kid was able to be exposed to every genre at a young age. Wieuca’s music reflects that, and they sometimes wonder why every band hasn’t gone that route by now. I guess it hasn’t made them famous yet, so that’s probably why. Anyway, Burning Platform is a good album and contains enough styles that you’re sure to love something in it, and by the same token, hate something else in it. https://wieucamusic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/wieucallc/ https://www.facebook.com/wieucaband https://linktr.ee/wieuca