Marco Marchi & the Mojo Workers
| Marchi & the Mojo Workers | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | blues |
| founding | 2009 |
| Website | www.marcomarchi.ch |
| Founding members | |
| Marco Marchi | |
| Peo Mazza (until 2011) | |
| Claudio Egli (until 2014) | |
| Current occupation | |
| Marco Marchi | |
| Fabio Bianchi (since 2011) | |
Drums, percussion |
Toby Glaser (since 2012) |
| Marco Simoncelli (since 2015) | |
| former members | |
Drums, percussion |
Roberto Panzeri (2012) |
Marco Marchi & the Mojo Workers are a Swiss blues band led by singer and guitarist Marco Marchi (born January 18, 1958 ), a representative of traditional blues in Europe .
history
Marco Marchi & The Mojo Workers were founded in summer 2009 by Marco Marchi ( guitar ), Peo Mazza ( drums ) and Claudio Egli ( blues harp ) in Ticino . The name is based on the hit Got My Mojo Working by Muddy Waters . The first appearance of the newly formed band took place in the Irish Club Alpino in Tesserete in October 2009.
Initially, the Mojo Workers played on every available stage and quickly achieved growing success with audiences and the trade press across Switzerland. The first sound carrier, Listening to My Soul , came out in spring 2010 and was very well received. This made it possible for the band to appear at important festivals such as the Piazza Blues Festival in Bellinzona and the Blues Summit in Geneva .
In January 2011, tuba player Fabio Bianchi joined the band. With the tuba as a bass instrument, the band had a wider musical range at their disposal. In autumn 2011 the band won the Swiss Blues Challenge and in 2012 they were the first participants from Switzerland who were ever allowed to perform in the International Blues Challenge of the Blues Foundation in Memphis . The international attention increased the level of awareness considerably and showed that the unconventional instrumentation and the conscious focus on acoustic music were very well received by the audience.
In November 2012 the new CD My Old River was released with original compositions and guest contributions by well-known American performers. As with the first CD, the reactions of the trade press and the public were very positive. The band continued their concert activities and in 2013 they performed again at major festivals abroad ( Eutin , Erfurt , Kecskemét , Toruń ) as well as a tour in Switzerland with the American mandolin player Rich del Grosso, who has been nominated for several Blues Music Awards .
The third CD Here and Now was released in January 2015 . The band was preparing to develop their repertoire specifically in the direction of second-line rhythms from New Orleans and thus expand their musical horizons.
style
The band plays blues , ragtime , boogie , hot jazz in the style of Big Bill Broonzy , Sleepy John Estes , Reverend Gary Davis , Blind Boy Fuller , Blind Blake and Robert Johnson . Marco Marchi & the Mojo Workers have mastered different styles of blues such as Piedmont Blues , Hokum Blues , Swamp Blues or Ragtime and Jump Blues of the 1920s and 1950s . First and foremost, their own compositions are played, but pieces by their role models such as Fats Waller and Tampa Red are also interpreted.
Discography
- 2010: Listening to My Soul
- 2012: My Old River
- 2013: Live at the Bohém Festival (DVD)
- 2015: Here and Now
- 2018: Stand Up
Awards
- Winner Swiss Blues Challenge 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bluesnews.ch/rezensions/cds-lps-rezension/601-marco-marchi-a-the-mojo-workers-listenin-to-my-soul
- ↑ a b swissblues.ch: Swiss Blues Challenge 2011 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.bluesnews.ch/rezensions/cds-lps-rezension/954-marco-marchi-a-the-mojo-workers-my-old-river
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/MarcoMarchiTheMojoWorkers/app_123966167614127
- ↑ http://bluesnews.ch/rezensions/cds-lps-rezension/1313-marco-marchi-and-the-mojo-workers-here-and-now