"Legendary underground artist, trans icon, and birth mother of queer worlds— when Mona Demone gives us song, we dance!
S3RP3NT is a siren-wail from the thump thump thumping flesh machine. Gorgeous like a diesel mama! The song-beauty drives us forward, defiant, and transcendent, all joyous trans bodies and revolutionary release. Nourishment for our
"Legendary underground artist, trans icon, and birth mother of queer worlds— when Mona Demone gives us song, we dance!
S3RP3NT is a siren-wail from the thump thump thumping flesh machine. Gorgeous like a diesel mama! The song-beauty drives us forward, defiant, and transcendent, all joyous trans bodies and revolutionary release. Nourishment for our times.
If you ride the serpent / Then we are destined to collide Mona sings. Like how she filled her greasy bus with gender freaks and drove it across the country to make noise, and I remember by the time the bus got to the west coast, everyone had lost their minds. How we all long to be on that bus!
S3RP3NT is full of dance hits, lots of hips to go with Mona’s remarkable transsexual angel voice. Tones all her own. Crystals on the ocean. It’s the ocean you know from her comix, a dying ocean but you dance as she sings you into it because that voice.
Mona sings for the transsexuals. She doesn’t lie to us, she throws us into the honest best of who we are. I’ve seen her stitch trash into fantasy, but S3RP3NT is woven differently. It’s the hours of her motherhood, and time found between, over years. It's the persistent alien spirit. It’s Mona Demone birthing again, her child lovingly in her arms, her many trans families dancing and singing."
- tee clutch, 2022
"The songs of S3RP3NT are meant to be anthemic. Trans people don’t have enough anthems and we deserve to be celebrated. We break barriers simply by existing as our true selves. I want these songs to lift us up, to celebrate us, to dance, to connect and to dive deeper into our transformations. Let’s grow our roses now while we are still here. Make the soil rich and send it forward.
S3RP3NT is a collection of songs constructed in Los Angeles, between 2017 and 2019 on an Electribe esx-1. It’s a love letter to Los Angeles, its ocean, and to trans people. Each song of S3RP3NT begins with beats building and layering upon repetitive bass lines, and hooks to knit a shelter, to stretch out and hold our changing forms. Meanwhile the vocals loop and ride upon one another– a call to other trans people, femmes, NB, queers, sex workers, people struggling through capitalism, to join me in the present form they inhabit". - Mona Demone
When you are outside of LA, people like to point out that the water will run out within the year, but inside the city, the traffic carries on. “light as a feather, stiff as a board” and somehow it all just floats.
“Don’t drink the water and watch the direction of the sun.If you fall down, you’ll turn to sand and dust and you’ll never find your way back home.” -BRIN3
It’s a city on the ocean. Sometimes I’d be missing it for weeks when it’s just a train or bus ride away. However, the ocean was my reset. Comprised of the same water that has always been on earth. I called it the library of time. It holds the oldest information- the most solid part of me - the power to transform.