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A Place to Call Home monkturner 129 views A Place to Call Home Words and Music by Beniamino 'monk' Turner  Monk: Programing, Guitar, SK1 Russell Walters: 5 String Bass Chris Warrior: Vocals Vanessa Warrior:...
New Downtown monkturner 12 views New Downtown Words and Music by Beniamino 'monk' Turner  Monk: Programing, Guitar Chris Warrior: Vocals Lauren Rasmussen: Vocals Shin Kawasaki: Vocals, Lead Guitar  R...
The Hair Salon monkturner 22 views This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativeco...
Trapped in my Head monkturner 77 views Trapped in my Head Words and Music by Beniamino 'monk' Turner Monk: Programming William 'Gods Will' Glenn: Vocals Recorded at Sogo Studios (Little Tokyo, CA USA) and 3rd ...
Rooftop Balcony monkturner 8 views This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativeco...
First and Central monkturner 43 views First and Central  Music by Beniamino 'monk' Turner and Chad Bloom  Produced by Chad Bloom  Chad Bloom: Programming, Sax, Rhodes Vocals  Recorded at Lalai Dama Music St...
A Dive Bar off Main Street monkturner 37 views A Dive Bar off Main Street  Words and Music by Beniamino 'monk' Turner   Monk: Acoustic Guitar, Programming, Shaker, SK1  Lauren Rasmussen: Vocals Marcel Camargo: Vocals ...
MJ's Grave monkturner 85 views MJ's Grave  Words and Music by Beniamino 'monk' Turner Monk: Programing  Ben Altec: Vocals Chris Warrior: Vocals Sherdale 'Sip' Smith: Vocals Lauren Rasmussen: Vocals ...
The Club monkturner 18 views The Club  Words and Music by Beniamino 'monk' Turner   Monk: Programing  Sherdale 'Sip' Smith: Vocals William 'Gods Will' Glenn: Vocals  Recorded at Sogo Studios (Litt...
Freeway Parking Lot monkturner 20 views Freeway Parking Lot Music by Beniamino 'monk' Turner and Shin Kawasaki Words by Beniamino 'monk' Turner Produced by Shin Kawasaki Monk: Guitar Shin Kawasaki: Programmi...

About Monk Turner

Galatic Defender of the Concept Album.

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Dec 5, 2011

Date Joined

Dec 25, 2006

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"This prolific/eclectic artist/producer uses a spectrum of styles, generating entire concept albums. Turner is both daring and melodically gifted..."
-Music Connection Magazine

"You've got to love Monk Turner for creativity and witty lyrics. He combines various music genres and creates tracks suited for any type of music listener. Equipped with tongue-in-cheek lyrics about everyday life and social events that people encounter throughout their lives."
-FrostClick

"Monk Turner is a musician of eclectic taste and an approach to releasing albums that involves Creative Commons licensing..."
-Creative Commons

"Part musical genius, part escaped mental patient...:"
-Is Good Music

L.A.-based songwriter Monk Turner is an artist. His medium is the concept album.

Turner has released over 20 albums in collaboration with Creative Commons artists who share a "copyleft" vision of breaking through the constraints of copyright and distribution to deliver free music to the people.

Turner got his start as a principal songwriter and performer in various music groups. After the break up of his last band, he found he preferred working with musicians as part of a freeform collective and began recording concept albums at home on his four-track. Almost a decade later, he is still at it with an ever growing audience of listeners. Turner's albums are designed to stand alone as concept art therefore live performances are a rarity. However, almost 100 free songs are available for free download at: http://www.monkturner.com/

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