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Celebrating A Million Views (Free Downloads)

It happened again … twice! 

In just the last month two more of our videos have reached 1 000 000 views on YouTube

California Dreamin’ (2009):


If I Fell (2016): (Video at the top of the post)

We tend to go on about how mind blowing those numbers still are to us and how we can’t thank you enough but this time we will spare you the usual paragraph and just quietly let our heads explode in amazement and gratitude 😉

That’s the 4th video since January, with a possible two more coming before the end of the year 2018 to join the Million Club! We want to give you both songs as a free download to celebrate and to say thanks!
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The Calm Before The Storm

It’s been a while since you’ve last heard from us. That’s because we’ve reached the end spurt of a rather huge project. It’s that time again where breaks get optional and food and sleep turn into necessary evils. Oh, how we love that feeling! 🙂

You’ll hear from us soon!

Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa

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1 Year in Liverpool & “One More Time” – Live Video!

Recently we had a lot more to celebrate than “just” 5 Million YouTube hits:

1. One year ago we set foot in Liverpool and never left again! The Scoustrians were born. To come here was one of the best decisions we ever made and we can’t thank our parents Rudi and Michaela enough for making this big move with us!!

2. Our video for “California Dreaming” reached 500,000 views today! That’s the first of our videos to ever reach that big a number!

3. Our video for “June” cracked the 50,000 views milestone today as well!!

4. We have been playing a residency slot at the Cavern Club Liverpool every Saturday night for about 6 months now, so we thought it’s about time to start sharing with you all some moments of our time there. We just released a live version of our original song “One More Time“, recorded on February 15th, 2015. James Rookyard is on the bass and Jake Brown works the drums.

Sooo … today is a good day, a very good day indeed!

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“California Dreaming” EP Release + New Videos!

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Today is the “California Dreaming” EP Release!

The album contains three songs – “California Dreaming“, “San Fransisco” and “Hotel California“. We recorded them at our Dad’s studio at home in Austria. The Sax is played by our stepmum Michaela, our Dad recorded the bass and the keyboard and we (Lisa and I) did all the singing and the other instruments (guitars, drums). Our Dad produced & recorded the “California Dreaming” EP and mixed and mastered all of the songs. The album art was done by Michaela. It really was a whole family project 🙂

As we told you in earlier news-updates we filmed the music videos for the songs in California. We then recorded the music at home in Austria. To work on that EP and to shoot the videos was a whole lot of fun and we learned a lot of new things about filming and recording. It was definitely a good way to improve in the studio! We also want to thank YOU for sticking with us and send love to everyone for their support!
Get the EP now in our webshop, at AMAZON, ITUNES and CDBABY!

Take care,
Mona & Lisa

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Shooting New Music Videos in California

Shooting Hotel California in Palmdale

The last three weeks our Dad and us have been shooting the music videos for “California Dreaming”, “Hotel California” and “San Franscico”.

While doing so we have been horse riding, motorboating, busking & dressing up and whale whatching. We went to Hollywood, San Fransisco, Palmdale and many different beaches in California.

It wasn’t always easy to find the right location to shoot but with the help of local friends we always found the place we were looking for. Shooting was a LOT of fun and we got to see many different places and met quite interesting people. We didn’t have a script or anything planned out – just our imagination and individual ideas that we wanted to realize in those videos. I think that is going to make the cutting of the video really interesting. We have a whole lot of cassettes with footage on them and as soon as we come home from our trip we will start working on them.

For the music video of “California Dreaming” we might also shoot a few more scenes back home in Austria, for the “All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey” – part ;). We are looking forward to the final outcome and hope you’ll have as much fun watching them as we had doing them. You’ll get to see them in a couple of weeks.

Love,
Mona & Lisa

 

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MonaLisa Twins go America – again!

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Hey there, guess what?! We’re going to America AGAIN!

But this time not only for vacation but for actual work. “Work” in a good way though.
We want to combine our this year’s vacation with a musical project which we are going to call “California Dreaming”. The idea is that we record the 3 California based songs “San Francisco”, “Hotel California” and “California Dreaming” and shoot some music videos for them right IN America. We’ll then make an EP with these songs and put the videos on Youtube and our website. It is going to be great and we are really excited!

Have a good day and see ya soon!
Mona & Lisa