Mona Mur

Mona Mur born Sabine Bredy 29 July 1960 is a German vocalist composer and audio designer Born in Hamburg to Polish parents she first appeared on the German music scene in 1982 Seeking the angry sound of the era she collaborated with members of Einstürzende Neubauten FM Einheit Marc Chung and Alex Hacke As Mona Mur und die Mieter they released the 12inch single Jeszcze Polska which was named Single of the Week by the New Musical Express The group disbanded shortly after Mona Mur lived between Paris and Berlin experiences that influenced the darker tone of her later work In 1985 she formed a new incarnation of Mona Mur with members of Einstürzende Neubauten Stricher and Flucht nach Vorn The band toured extensively across the Netherlands Denmark Sweden and Germany including a show with Sonic Youth in Bremen helping establish her cult following In 1988 she released her selftitled debut album Mona Mur on RCA with contributions from Dieter Meier of Yello and members of The Stranglers JJ Burnel and Dave Greenfield In 1990 Mona Mur and Dieter Meier recorded the album Warsaw with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Polish rock musician Grzegorz Ciechowski though it remained unreleased at the time She then stepped away from singing to focus on Taekwondo earning a 3rd Dan black belt joining the German national team and becoming International German Vice Champion twice In 1996 she founded monamur music production and became a composer and audio designer for the software developer Terratools in PotsdamBabelsberg There she developed a distinctive style of electronic orchestration creating atmospheric and hallucinatory soundscapes Her work has been featured in video games such as Velvet Assassin Ballance Culpa Innata II and Kane Lynch 2 Dog Days Director Fatih Akin also used three of her songs in his awardwinning film HeadOn Gegen die Wand Mona Mur returned to singing and performing in the 2000s Her 2004 compilation Into Your Eye collected over 20 years of material ranging from 1980s punkwave tracks to orchestrated pieces and new darkwave songs produced with multiinstrumentalist Christian St Claire Since 2007 she has collaborated with former KMFDM frontman En Esch As Mona Mur En Esch they released the album 120 Tage The Fine Art of Beauty and Violence in 2009 on Pale Music