Morcheeba

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morcheeba
Morcheeba in concert, 2010
Morcheeba in concert, 2010
General information
Genre (s) Trip hop
founding 1995
Website morcheeba.uk
Founding members
Skye Edwards (1995-2004 and since 2010)
Various
 Paul Godfrey
Ross Godfrey
former members
singing
 Daisy Martey (2004-2005)
Various
 Paul Godfrey (1995-2014)
Morcheeba at the ZMF 2018 in Freiburg

Morcheeba is a British trip-hop - band . It was founded in 1995 in London by DJ Paul Godfrey , his brother Ross Godfrey (guitar, keyboards) and the singer Skye Edwards , whose voice has significantly shaped the sound of the group, as well as various guest musicians.

Band history

Her first album Who Can You Trust (1996) is still clearly under the influence of Massive Attack . The later albums Big Calm (1998), Fragments of Freedom (2000) and Charango (2002) are overall less dark and melancholy, but rather go in the direction of pop music ("trip pop"). Male vocals were heard for the first time on Charango .

After the release of the best-of album Parts of the Process , the Godfrey brothers separated from Skye Edwards in April 2004 and signed Daisy Martey as the new singer. In May 2005 the fifth album "The Antidote" was released. At the beginning of the live tour, Daisy Martey got out again and was replaced by Jody Sternberg .

Morcheeba worked with various guest singers on the CD Dive Deep , which was released in February 2008 . The English singer Judie Tzuke can be heard on the first single Enjoy the Ride and in the song Blue Chair , the Norwegian singer Thomas Dybdahl sings Riverbed , Sleep On It and Washed Away , the rapper Cool Calm Pete appears in One Love Karma , and the singer Amanda Zamolo (Manda), who had applied to the band via MySpace , sings Gained The World , Au-delà and Run Honey Run as background singer .

In February 2010 it was announced that the Godfrey brothers and Skye Edwards have reunited. On June 13, 2010 they released their new album together called Blood like Lemonade .

The album Head Up High was released on October 14, 2013 . Guest musicians include Ana Tijoux , James Petralli from White Denim , Chali 2na from Jurassic 5 and the Rizzle Kicks on the album. A tour followed shortly thereafter, which also took her to Germany for several appearances. After that, Paul Godfrey, who had long had musical and personal differences with his brother Ross, announced his departure from the band. Since there was initially no agreement on a financial regulation that would have allowed the name Morcheeba to continue to be used, the two remaining band members released an album under the name Skye & Ross in September 2016 .

On March 9, 2018, a new single called Never Undo was released again under the name Morcheeba.

The name of the band is a composition of the words "MOR" (stands for the musical style middle-of-the-road ) and "Cheeba", an English slang expression for marijuana . Morcheeba also sounds like "More Cheeba!" ("More grass!").

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1996 Who Can You Trust? - - CH100 (1 week)
CH 		UK57
gold
gold

(11 weeks)UK 		-
First published: September 24, 1996
1998 Big Calm DE81 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT22 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH37 (18 weeks)
CH 		UK18th
platinum
platinum

(113 weeks)UK 		-
First published: March 16, 1998
2000 Fragments of Freedom DE19 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH7th
gold
gold

(24 weeks)CH 		UK6th
gold
gold

(32 weeks)UK 		US113 (5 weeks)
US
First published: August 1, 2000
2002 Charango DE11 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT8 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH4th
gold
gold

(21 weeks)CH 		UK7th
gold
gold

(11 weeks)UK 		-
First published: July 2, 2002
2005 The antidote DE40 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT23 (7 weeks)
AT 		CH3 (16 weeks)
CH 		UK17 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: May 31, 2005
2008 Dive Deep DE44 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT42 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH8 (13 weeks)
CH 		UK59 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: February 4, 2008
2010 Blood Like Lemonade DE26 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT30 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH3 (21 weeks)
CH 		- -
First published: June 4, 2010
2013 Head up high DE51 (1 week)
DE 		AT39 (1 week)
AT 		CH9 (6 weeks)
CH 		- -
First published: October 14, 2013
2018 Blaze Away DE73 (1 week)
DE 		- CH16 (2 weeks)
CH 		- -
First published: June 1, 2018

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2003 Parts of the Process DE67 (7 weeks)
DE 		AT37 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH6 (16 weeks)
CH 		UK6th
gold
gold

(12 weeks)UK 		-
First published: June 27, 2003

more publishments

  • 1996: Beats & B-Sides
  • 2001: Back to Mine
  • 2005: The Platinum Collection
  • 2007: The Works: A 3 CD Retrospective
  • 2011: The Best of 1995-2003

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1996 The Music That We Hear (Moog Island)
Who Can You Trust? 		- - - UK47 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: February 1996
Tape Loop
Who Can You Trust? 		- - - UK42 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: July 1996
Trigger Hippie
Who Can You Trust? 		- - - UK40 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: September 1996
1997 Shoulder Holster
Big Calm 		- - - UK53 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: September 1997
1998 Blindfold
Big Calm 		- - - UK56 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: March 1998
Let Me See
Big Calm 		- - - UK46 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: June 1998
Part of the Process
Big Calm 		- - - UK38 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: August 1998
2000 Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
Fragments of Freedom 		DE70 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH33 (15 weeks)
CH 		UK34 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: July 2000
Be Yourself
Fragments of Freedom 		- - - UK89 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: October 2000
2001 World Looking In
Fragments of Freedom 		- - - UK48 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: March 2001
2002 Otherwise
Charango 		- - CH72 (11 weeks)
CH 		UK64 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: June 2002
2005 Wonders Never Cease
The Antidote 		- - - UK86 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: May 2005

Web links

Commons : Morcheeba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "the group's signature voice" (Sean McCarthy on Popmatters.com )
  2. ^ Matt Wilkinson: Morcheeba to be rejoined by the former singer for first time since 2003. In: Nme.com . February 12, 2010, accessed May 5, 2019 .
  3. ^ Blog entry on MySpace by Morcheeba. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2009 ; Retrieved February 14, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.myspace.com
  4. ↑ Entry on the band's homepage. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015 ; Retrieved April 24, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Entry on the band's homepage. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015 ; Retrieved August 6, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Interview with Ross Godfrey. In: Eonmusic. September 2016, accessed on May 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jayne Margetts in iMagazine ( Memento from December 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  9. ↑ Awards for Music Sales: CH UK