 Mono'Kiri is the little sister of the clitpunkband Hara'Kiri.
Even though they have the same mother, it's not very obvious whether they come from the same father.
Probably not, as they are quite different. While Hara'Kiri is wild and full of energy, Mono'Kiri is calmer and subtler. Well, at least she pretends to be.
Wanna know more about the mother?
Caroline Werbrouck got obsessed by music when her brother took her to a movie from 'The Who' at the age of eleven and never got rid of that obsession again. She used to write several years for a Belgian fanzine called 'RifRaf', doing interviews and writing reviews about punk rock and underground bands. But than she found out making music herself was much more fun so she decided to play the guitar and joined 'Not Yet', the clitpunkinvasion in 1998. Four years later she founded the punkrock band Hara'Kiri and released the album 'HaHaha'.
Buying a laptop and learning how to work with Cubase, led to her solo project Mono'Kiri! No punk this time, but no/new wave influences mixed with electro!
Meeting Suspiria Franklyn from the Portugese band 'Les Baton Rouge', also led to the electro punk wave duo 'Suspicious', based in Berlin.
RifRaf - Oct 2006
Surviving On Dreams And Casual Sex
’A year ago Caroline Werbrouck (Hara’Kiri, Suspicious) gave us a glimpse of her brand new solo project: The then-shivery, naked demo has returned in the meantime with some more clothes around the graceful no-wave body, thanks to the help of Craig Ward, Dave Schroyen and Luc Waegeman. However, in the case of Mono’Kiri, it’s still just a bra and knickers. No scrolls and flourishes here, but touching stripped-down no wave, drenched in the poison of Lydia Lunch and mutilated here and there by the insanely disturbed sax of James White. Superb!’ (sp)
Music In Belgium - http://www.musicinbelgium.net - Oct 2006
Surviving On Dreams And Casual Sex
’…This album, in the shape of a fantastic story about the vicissitudes of love and sex, starts in a harmless way to evolve in a universe full of mystery and menace, created to dramatise progressively the subject of successive coming and going. Receiving this full frontal, when you don’t expect it, the result is - quite fortuitous - a very impressive one. A Belgian singer/composer more than promising’… ‘A real discovery!’ (MM)
Rarefish: www.rarefish.be - Sept. 2005:
Undercurrent DJ: Caroline – Mono’Kiri - Werbrouck :
’’La grande dame’ of the Antwerp underground deserved her spot at the rock ‘n roll hall of fame with punk rock band Hara’Kiri, her electronic solo project Mono’Kiri and the Berlin-based electro clash duo Suspicious. Caroline is one of the only Belgian rock chicks that performed at the legendary CBGB’s in New York, as well as at the mythical Gentse Feesten. Expect a heavy DJ set from a girl standing at the first row of literally every good concert!’
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