The ‘Hanslik & Moniz Experiment’

Steven and I created this band almost 30 years ago in it’s earliest form. This was with Steven on Acoustic guitar and me on drums. Since that time, we have changed and evolved the form many times over. With our unique background and influences, we have created the sound you hear today.

We have written more music then we typically know what to do with and selectively produce albums around themes from studio sessions and songs. Our producer, my wife - Retagene, is instrumental in this process and reviews and lends a musical hand at various levels in the creation of all our works and albums.

Our current album library consists of - Jar of Jam, The Visitor, Side Show, Friendly Planet, Gell’n, Evolution, Call & Answer, Modern Art, with a few albums in queue as well. Each album has its own unique sound and feel. We also have an Electronic single that we released last year - Outside Man.

Music can be heard on streaming/download music sites and where CDs are for sale including: sevendigital, amazon, amazonmusic, amie, anghami, applemusic, audiomack, beatport, bmat, boomplay, clicknclear, deezer, facebookfingerprinting, facebookmusic, iheartradio, imusica, itunes, kanjian, kkbox, linemusic, medianet, mixcloud, moodmedia, napster, netease, nightlifemusic, pandora, peloton, qobuz, rxmusic, saavn, slacker, soundexchange, spotify, supernatural, tencent, tidal, touchtunes, umamusic, vervelife, youtube, youtubemusic, zingmp3.

More on our song-writing process -

While for years we followed traditional song-writing methods, developing song structures with verses/chorus, with basic harmonic/melodic components;, for the last 10 years or so, Steven and I rely on more (jazz) improvisation in our song-writing process. Other groups have done the same process and although more common place in live performance, the results in a studio situation have proven very successful for us.

Equipment… stuff

Steven typically plays a host of electric guitars and effects along with some very cool guitar synths. I typically have at 4 - 6 outboard keyboard synthesizers and systems that I play all at once, with the help of sustain pedals and some looping. Steve also plays a host of percussion instruments and together we record it all as we play and write live.

Finally

We continually look for new and interesting ways to create and make music, and we enjoy the process so much, we have been doing it for a few decades now. We don’t think there is much music out there like ours and art and creativity take the forefront of how and why we create music. We truly hope you enjoy some of the music we have written over the years.

Thanks!

Alan / Steven