Mouth Music
| Mouth Music | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Edinburgh , Scotland |
| Genre (s) | World music , folk |
| founding | 1990 |
| Website | www.mouthmusic.co.uk |
| Founding members | |
| Martin Swan | |
singing |
Talitha MacKenzie (until 1991) |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, violin, synthesizers, percussion, bass |
Martin Swan |
Singing, whistling |
Martin Furey |
singing |
Kaela Rowan |
| James MacKintosh | |
| former members | |
| Martyn Bennett (1990-1995) | |
singing |
Jackie Joyce (1992-1995) |
bass |
Quee MacArthur (1992-1995) |
Background singing |
Michaela Rowan (1992–1995) |
| Jeremy Black (1992-1995) | |
violin |
Alison Crawford (2003) |
Mouth Music is a British musical group from Edinburgh . The band name corresponds to the English name for Puirt a beul , the classic Gaelic chant .
Mouth Music very often uses traditional Gaelic chants, which are rearranged and combined with elements from jazz , pop , ambient and world music . In addition to the arrangements, the albums also contain original compositions by the band leader Martin Swan.
history
Mouth Music was founded in Edinburgh around 1990 by Talitha MacKenzie ( vocals ) and Martin Swan (vocals, violin , synthesizer ). In 1991 - with the help of Martyn Bennett - the first album was released with the title Mouth Music , which immediately conquered the top spot on the Billboard Top World Music Albums chart .
After Talitha MacKenzie left the band for a solo career, Martin Swan recorded the EP Blue Door Green Sea with Mairie MacInnes and a few other musicians in 1992 . In the same year the band was re-founded as a quintet, and their 1993 album Mo-Di made it to number two on the Billboard Top World Music Albums chart .
After these three works, in which mainly traditional Gaelic chant pieces were arranged with African rhythms and electronic sounds, the band reoriented. In 1995 the heavily pop- influenced album Shorelife was released .
Six years later - after another restructuring and musical reorientation - the album Seafaring Man was released .
With the CD The Scrape (2003), the band then defined themselves as a pure instrumental band committed to the classic Irish and Scottish instruments.
Her last work to date, The Order of Things , borrows from jazz and was released in 2005.
Discography
- 1991: Mouth Music (album)
- 1992: Blue Door Green Sea (EP)
- 1993: Mon-Tue (album)
- 1995: Shorelife (album)
- 2001: Seafaring Man (album)
- 2003: The Scrape (album)
- 2005: The Order of Things (album)