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Release Day – 2 New Albums Out Today!

MLT play Beatles & more Vol. 2 & 3 Out Now

Official Release Date: 21st October 2018

Watch our new video for “I’ll Follow The Sun” one week earlier than the rest of the world!

The song will feature on our album MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol. 2 which is coming out at the end of the month. All pre-orders will get signed for MLT Club members, so make sure to order yours before the 28th of October! 🙂

“I’ll Follow The Sun” has always been one of our favourite melodic Beatles songs. It sounds so simple at first listen yet it’s anything but. The chords are complex, and the way the melody loops around when the verse repeats has always fascinated us. Add Paul’s sweet voice and it’s a timeless masterpiece.

We remember vividly the time, many years ago, when we were about 14 years old and riding on a bus through Austria on a group excursion with our grandparents and a whole bunch of their friends and their grandchildren. The two of us spent the entire ride in the last row listening to Beatles songs. It was at the height of our Beatle Mania phase when we were in the middle of discovering and devouring their entire back catalogue and learning all songs by heart.

“I’ll Follow The Sun” came on on our mp3 player (no iPhones back then), and we put it on repeat at least three times. Then we walked through the isle of the bus to our grandpa, made him listen to the song, got our mp3 player back and continued our Beatles listening session while driving to some castle or museum – The Beatles seemed much more important at the time. Frankly, they still are! 😉

For some reason, it was especially important to us that our grandpa listened to that one song in particular, because we couldn’t believe how beautiful it was and just had to share that with someone. He’d never heard it before but he said he liked it so we were satisfied. Mission accomplished.

Now we hope you like our humble take on it!

We initially recorded this song a while ago for Steve from Florida, one of our biggest fans and supporters. It was a birthday surprise for him and we loved creating something that we knew would make him smile. Now he and we are excited to share it with you all, and later with the rest of our audience beyond the gates of the MLT Club.

Let us know what you think about it, please.

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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2 New Albums Ready To Pre-Order

MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol 2 + 3

Out on the 28th of October

It’s time! Lots of you have been asking for this for years. Some might call it overdue. So we hope you are excited to hear that we finally got around to putting together not just one, but two new cover compilation CDs:

Since “MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more” Vol. 1 (the blue one) came out in 2014 we have released countless more covers of our favourite songs on YouTube but never on CD. So many in fact, that they didn’t all fit on just one album. So we decided to cause some double trouble … 2 new CDs! This also left us with space to record quite a lot of new and so-far unreleased covers of some of our favourite songs. And you know how much we love doing that 🙂

They are ready for pre-order as of right now. We also have a new selection of discounted bundles (-10%) and most excitingly:A Membership Subscription Service for a super secret area on our website with lots of exclusive content: The MLT Club !!!

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10 Years on YouTube

10 year anniversary MonaLisa & band Live in Concert 2007

Long, long time ago, we can still remember …

… when we uploaded our first ever YouTube video 10 years ago today!

That’s a bit less than half our lives ago. Seems crazy when we say it like that. Back then we were only 13 years old and making baby steps towards a musical career, building our YouTube channel, becoming better musicians and eventually “meeting” all of you throughout the years.

If you feel like going down memory lane with us and see our baby faces, here is the playlist to all those very early videos – don’t let the hair colour throw you off, that’s really us (performing with Papa Rudi and Stepmum Michaela ♥) 😉

Watch our earliest videos here.

Most of you have probably come across our music on YouTube and have seen at least one of our 102 videos. For us working on the visuals of a songs is extremely important – it gives us freedom to put another creative layer on the music experience and we just love playing around with new ideas, equipment, locations and effects.

That’s why tomorrow we will finally be shooting our next video. If you want to follow what’s going on, keep an eye out on our Instagram Story. We’ll take you along on the ride!

Feel free to leave us a comment below telling us what video first introduced you to our music, your favourite clips and when you came across them – we love hearing these kinds of things 🙂

Talk soon and stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

 

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“Yesterday” – New Beatles cover for 50 000 YouTube Subscribers

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New Beatles cover for a fab reason! 

Hi Friends,

We recorded a new cover to celebrate 50 000 YouTube subscribers! To say THANK YOU we brought all other projects to a screeching halt for a couple of days and made a new video.

We didn’t pick just any old song but decided to have a go at what is believed to be the “best song of the 20th century” (BBC 2), the “Number 1 pop song of all time” (Rolling Stone) and “the world’s best song” (MTV). 

… No pressure 😉 Please enjoy our rendition of “Yesterday

We reached this milestone way quicker than we thought, due to a nice little surprise on the YouTube front. Over the last week our daily views multiplied and a whole lot of new people discovered our channel. If you’re one of them – HI THERE AND WELCOME!

We were sceptical at first. A glitch in the statistics? Fake bots? Bought views by a fan? Well, turns out it was none of that but YouTube rather decided to just feature a couple of our videos really heavily on the front page to a new audience!

Why? No idea, but we ain’t complaining!

We’re still working on a couple of new videos besides “Yesterday”, so keep your eyes peeled for more content in the near future.

In the meantime, why don’t you have a look at our online store to see if anything tickles your fancy. We need to prepare some empty room on the storage shelves … just saying … shhhh … 😉

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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2018 Calendar Girls

What a great surprise to find ourselves on the cover of this year’s Guitar Girl Magazine calendar! 

A few months ago they published a review of our recent album “ORANGE” as well as a detailed interview we gave about the whole recording progress (and more).
Review: http://www.mlt1.uk/GGMreview
interview: http://www.mlt1.uk/GGMinterview

We could tell how passionate they were about their blog with a genuine interest in supporting (female) artists and showcasing their work.
Now this year they put us on the cover of their 2018 calendar! Thank you! You can order one through their online shop or Amazon.

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa