Unknown Mortal Orchestra

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Ruban Nielson performing with the Unknown Mortal Orchestra 2012 in Busselton at Sir Stewart Bovell Park
Ruban Nielson performing with the Unknown Mortal Orchestra 2012 in Busselton at Sir Stewart Bovell Park
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  NZ 35 06/27/2011 (1 week)
II
  NZ 38 02/11/2013 (1 week)
  US 170 02/23/2013 (1 week)
Multi-love
  NZ 14th 06/01/2015 (3 weeks)
  UK 44 06/06/2015 (1 week)
  US 98 06/13/2015 (1 week)
Sex & Food
  NZ 9 04/16/2018 (2 weeks)
  UK 56 April 19, 2018 (1 week)
  US 188 04/21/2018 (1 week)

The Unknown Mortal Orchestra is an American-New Zealand band from Portland . She plays a mixture of funk , groove and psychedelic rock .

history

Ruban Nielson founded the band The Mint Chicks in New Zealand in 2001 with his brother Kody . The band released several EPs and three LPs until they broke up in 2010. In 2007 the brothers relocated to Portland, Oregon on the US West Coast .

In spring 2010, a track called Ffunny Ffrends was released on Bandcamp , without further information. The author was Ruban Nielson and the response to the track was enormous. As the author of the piece, he leads a mysterious Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Eng. "Orchestra of an Unknown Mortal").

After the web success of Ffunny Ffrends , Nielson tinkered with an album. This was published in 2011 and was entitled Unknown Mortal Orchestra . Then Nielson went on tour with a bassist and a drummer for 18 months. Nielson retired again to his basement and worked on the second album II . This was released in early 2013. This album also featured drummer Jacob Portrait and bassist Greg Rogove.

The Unknown Mortal Orchestra released their third album entitled Multi-Love in 2015 and was on tour in Germany in May 2015.

Discography

Albums

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra (2011)
  • II (2013)
  • Multi-Love (2015)
  • Sex & Food (2018)
  • IC-01 Hanoi (2018)

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: NZ UK US
  2. ↑ Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Laut.de biography. Retrieved May 25, 2015.

Web links

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