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Her dark dramatic voice lets our blood flow backwards.
BEWEGUNGSMELDER Zürich 2008

Review DROPDEAD Festival Prague 11/2007
You could say that Mona Mur is here representing German new wave. With a career that stretches back to the 80s, and a history of collaborations with artists as diverse as members of Einstürzende Neubauten, the Stranglers, and Yello, you could even argue that Mona Mur has positioned herself on the principal intersection of the new wave autobahn. Tonight she's collaborating with ex-KMFDM man En Esch, on guitar. We're in the minimal zone again, and while the performance has an air of cool restraint throughout, there's also a distinct feeling of seething passions just under the surface. Mona Mur gives us a performance of Brechtian torch songs and slow-burning cabaret-influenced chansons, meticulously delivered with a chilled composure that at once establishes a distance between performer and audience, even as it entices you in. It's theatre, and yet it's still unequivocally rooted in the stripped and clipped stylings of 80s new wave. Mona herself maintains a controlled and impassive aura - aside from those moments when she's joking with En Esch, who I suspect, if left to himself, would probably slap cranked-up guitar over everything. The amiable tension between the two performers - the supercool vocalist and her rock guitarist, straining at the leash to amp it all up - adds another neat bit of tension to the proceedings. The audience is held, rapt and attentive, from first song to last.
Uncle NEMESIS UK 2008

When the Industrial Dance of "Hier im Nebel sind wir alle gleich" kicks into gear, "Into Your Eye" becomes an absolute juicy bloody steak to sink your teeth into. The droning "Indra" and the sweeping beauty of "Eden" are other fine examples of this powerful songwriter.
sickamongthepure, USA 2005

...an artist who doesn't produce weak things. It is difficult to resist the fascination of this woman while listening to "Into Your Eye".
COLD, Poland, 2005

Mona Mur has a theatric and affecting voice reflecting her unique erotic, personal intense, raw and dark character. She belongs to the few German singers, who in her self-direction went to dark, aggressive sounds among industrial, avant-garde and orchestrations.
International ReGen Magazine 2004

...an irresistable mix of aggression, dark emotion and contemplation. Mona Mur unfolds landscapes of sound - sometimes raw, ascetic, dangerous, sometimes mysterious but intimately close.
ZILLO 2004

...painting images and memories through the listening ear into the brain.
SONIC SEDUCER 2004

...not more and not less than a piece of german wave history !
GOTHIC 6/04

No surprise that director FATIH AKIN chose three Mona Mur songs for the soundtrack of his film success "Head On/ GEGEN DIE WAND" : because her music, her voice, her lyrics are as erotic, wild and passionate as the main character.
GOTHICWORLD 2004

"Into Your Eye" is a surprise and a revelation !
GRENZWELLEN 6/04

...an incredibly dark goose-skin atmosphere.
Dark FUN 2004

The Iron Maiden of Bloody Passions is back.
Dorfdisco Berlin 2004

...a voice of character, deep and threatening, erotically demanding, cool and touching.
Musik Express 1988

...her weapons are a passionately bloody voice, a sharp tongue and a gift for multiligual puns she applies to acerbic commentaries...
New Musical Express, London 1982