Monolith Festival artist: French Horn Rebellion

September 9, 5:27 PMIndie Rock ExaminerAlli Sands

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Picture courtesy of French Horn Rebellion's Myspace page

Returning home to Brooklyn after doing a twenty-three date tour to promote their EP Beaches and Friends (released on August 11), the brother duo of French Horn Rebellion are gearing up for their performance at the Monolith Festival this Sunday.

With some light-hearted sibling ribbing and a passed out Brazilian musician on the floor of one of their girlfriend’s West Village apartment’s floor (Yuri Chix from Database, the group French Horn Rebellion collaborated on their most recent EP), Robert Perlick-Molinari ate a turkey sandwich from Subway as his brother, David, talked about the hardships of life on road, “We had the coolest van. It was a conversion van from the 90s. There was a Sega Genesis in it. It got us all the way from New York to Arizona before it just kept breaking down.” You can imagine the brothers’ excitement at flying to Colorado for Monolith this weekend, “It takes a lot less time fly than to drive,” David says, “I prefer to fly because when you get to the gig you don’t have that crazy cooped up, cabin fever feeling.”

Touring to “spread the word”, Robert comments that life on the road is, “cool and everything but you make a lot of money doing it.” Regardless of this unjust truth that working musicians face every day, French Horn Rebellion truly try to achieve a connection with their audience, “The thing I’m most worried about [with Monolith] is that we usually play at night, around midnight, when the wolves come out but we’ll be playing before the sun goes down. At night people are more likely to use our music to dive into their own subconscious which is we want them to do.”

Following their performance at Monolith and a few shows in Michigan and Wisconsin, French Horn Rebellion is heading to the UK to promote their Up All Night EP (which was released in the States in February, but is being released across the pond on September 28th) for two weeks. Even though the EP has already been available for awhile, David expresses how, “It makes me happy to do something different.”

If you are in the NYC area tonight, be sure to check out the Brass Party at Santo’s Party House, a monthly event hosted by French Horn Rebellion. Click here to RSVP.