Mouth (band)

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Mouth
General information
origin Cologne , Germany
Genre (s) Progressive rock , psychedelic rock
founding 2000
Current occupation
Christian Koller
Thomas Johnen (since 2019)
Nick Mavridis
former members
bass
 Jan Wendeler (until 2012)
bass
 Gerald Kirsch (2012 to † 2018)

Mouth is a German progressive and psychedelic rock band from Cologne .

history

In 2009 the band released their debut album on Blunoise Records . Then there was the only musical life a download single for eight years on the band's own site on Bandcamp , until 2017 - again on Blunoise - the second work Vortex was released. As the band leader, singer and guitarist Chris Koller was responsible for the lyrics and music.

For the third album Floating , released in 2018, he switched to the Krefeld music label Ton Zonen Records . It was produced by Koller together with Guido Lucas , the mastering was done by Eroc . The album Live '71 followed shortly afterwards, especially for Record Store Day 2018 .

After the death of Gerald Kirsch in 2018, the band took a break. In March 2019 she announced that she had found a new bassist in Thomas Johnen and that she would make her comeback on stage at the “Krach am Bach” festival (with Kadavar, among others ). An EP with new and previously unreleased songs has been announced for August 2019.

style

On their debut album in 2009, the band played a catchy “kind of tightened and tightened progressive rock with hard rock chatter and glam rock attitude”, which is stylistically settled in the mid- 1970s .

On the second album, the stylistic range has narrowed to glam and hard rock, the focus has shifted to "spacey-psychedelic sounds". A reviewer of the Musikexpress sometimes made the band think of the "early Deep Purple or even Yes " on the second album , but basically Mouth had "developed its own dialect in the Progrock language". In the discussion of Intro , the style is described as “progressive rock with a strong psychedelic touch”.

For the third sound carrier, the running time of the individual pieces was then reduced and the proportion of “poppy US West Coast psychedelics” increased. The mixture of "instrumental jams inspired by Krautrock on the one hand, and very groove and vocal-oriented songs on the other hand" reminds one reviewer of " Motorpsycho , only with a stronger 60s impact".

Discography

  • 2009: Rhizome ( Blunoise Records )
  • 2017: Vortex (Blunoise Records)
  • 2018: Floating ( Ton Zonen Records )
  • 2018: Live'71 (Ton Zonen Records)
  • 2019: Past, Present, Future (Ton Zonen Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mouth biography. In: Prog Archives. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Sal Pichireddu: Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Mouth: Rhizome. In: babyblaue-seiten.de. October 6, 2009, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Jochen Rindfrey: Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Mouth: Vortex. In: babyblaue-seiten.de. July 20, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Juergen Meurer: Mouth - Vortex. In: betreutesproggen.de. July 31, 2017, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Carsten Agthe: Mouth - Floating. In: betreutesproggen.de. May 13, 2018, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Dirk Raupach: MOUTH publication for RSD 2018. In: tonzone.de. March 5, 2018. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ JJ Koczan: Mouth to release PastPresentFuture in August; Playing noise by the brook. In: theobelisk.net. April 10, 2019, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  8. ^ Frank Sawatzki: Mouth :: Vortex. In: Musikexpress. June 29, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  9. ^ Mario Lasar: Review: Mouth "Vortex". In: intro.de . June 26, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  10. ^ Andreas Schiffmann: Mouth: Floating (Review). In: musikreviews.de. March 19, 2018, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Jens Broxtermann: Mouth - Floating (9/10). In: prettyinnoise.de. March 19, 2018, accessed May 27, 2018 .