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11 months ago

Montalfish Performs at "Looking Back, Trudging Forward"

The group Montalfish (Co-composers and performers Christian Montalbano and Colleen Fisher) perform on opening night for the show Looking Back, Trud...

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- 11 months ago
  
  montalfish commented:
  
  Craig, great footage! Thank you so much! What did you shoot this on? Sounds not bad either given the space and acoustics.
  
  -Christian
11 months ago

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We are currently in pre production on our second music video and rehearsing for an April 14 gig in NYC. Check out colleens latest blog: http://rockinmars.wordpress.com/
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1 year ago

Torn to Pieces

From our upcoming album "The Double Side of Nothing".

Shot and directed by Montalfish.

Shot on a Nikon D90 dlsr

Edited with Sony vegas and after ef...

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2 years ago

"Love On You"

Live at huntington Amphiteater June 17, shot by Matt Dimakos.

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2 years ago

siren song

This is a live version of "siren song" from the album bare. Performed live at the Huntington LI amphitheater at

Pride Music Festival. This was sho...

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2 years ago

"last nite" (the strokes) -montalfish cover

this is a rough mix of a cover of the Stokes' "Last Nite"

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2 years ago

mechanations Dub

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2 years ago

mechanations 2009

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3 years ago

manipulate_roughcut 2 6 09

This is a very rough cut for a music video I shot in about 4 hours one afternoon last spring with Colleen. I shot it on a canon xl_2 at 24p. Since ...

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3 years ago

Bell Environmental

A company that is apparently doing well what with the bed bug epidemic that is taking over New York City apparently, judging from the cover of AM N...

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About Montalfish

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Mar 24, 2011

Date Joined

Apr 2, 2008

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Colleen Max-Fisher and Christian Montalbano (aka Montalfish) have been infusing the New York music scene since 2006 with an eclectic style that's been labeled everything from electro-soul to disco-rock. Their trademark dance-floor beats and evocative melodies have netted a broad following ever appreciative of Colleen's astonishing vocal range and complex timbres, the core of the Montalfish sound. Always the consummate performer, Colleen can energize a room with a strutting rocker growl or maneuver an audience's emotions with delicate crystalline phrasing -- and often does both in the same track. Beneath her vocal glory, guitarist, keyboardist and producer Christian Montalbano lays down a heavily textured bed of sound referencing a gamut of disco, house, pop, rock and soul. Christian fearlessly vacillates between musical foil and friend, as likely to add rhythmic grit to Colleen's most ethereal efforts as he is to bring on lush orchestrations to support her more seductive swaggers. The result is as fresh as it is mature, as warm-blooded as it is cool.

Besides their extensive DJ careers, Colleen and Christian's combined music resume includes commercial releases such as Storm Orion (Easy Street Records) and Maximum Pleasure (Instinct Records); signed projects under the names Snocone and Proteen; remixes for BMG; music and sound design for film and television projects, including Pokemon; and numerous national commercial campaigns for major advertising agencies and television networks.

In 2006, Montalfish released their debut album, Bare, Trippin Thru Electro Soul, featuring singles "Outta the Blue" and "Shine." Since then, the band has released Bare, a limited edition singles EP. Combining elements of rock, house, disco, and soul, Bare illustrates the first incarnation of the Montalfish sound, and it's a sound that plays as well in the recording studio as it does in live performance, as evidenced by the duo's wildly successful group appearances in 2009 at the Nokia Theater for the 40th anniversary of Stonewall and the Huntington Amphitheater. Since early 2010, Montalfish has taken a break from playing live in order to hunker down in the studio on their third album, The Double Side of Nothing. This album represents a continuing musical evolution and focus that promises to bring a new influx of listeners into the Montalfish fold.

Hometown

New York

Country

United States

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