Mouth Music (band)

Mouth Music is a Scottish musical group from Edinburgh. The band name is the English name for Puirt a bulge, the classic Gaelic chant.

Mouth Music processed very often traditional Gaelic chants, which are rearranged and combined with elements of jazz, pop, ambient and world music. In addition to the arrangements can be found on the albums also original compositions by the band leader Martin Swan.

Band History

Mouth Music was around 1990 in Edinburgh by Talitha MacKenzie (vocals) and Martin Swan ( vocals, violin, synthesizer ) founded. In 1991, then appeared - with the help of Martyn Bennett - the first album with the title " Mouth Music ", which captured the same the top spot on the Billboard Top World Music Albums charts.

After Talitha MacKenzie had left the band for a solo career, Martin Swan took together with Mairie MacInnes and some other musicians in 1992 on the EP " Blue Door Green Sea ". In the same year it came then to starting up the band as a quintet, and in 1993 published the album " Mo Di" went to number two on the Billboard Top World Music Albums charts.

After these three works, in which were mainly traditional Gaelic chant pieces arranged with African rhythms and electronic sounds, there was a realignment of the band. In 1995 the album was strongly influenced by the POP album " Shore Life".

Six years later - after a new restructuring and musical then the album realignment - appeared " Seafaring Man".

With the CD "The Scrape " (2003), the band then defined as a purely instrumental band that was committed to the classical Irish and Scottish instruments.

Her most recent work, "The order of things" is inspired from the Jazz and was released in 2005.

Discography

  • Mouth Music (1991 )
  • Blue Door Green Sea (EP, 1992)
  • Mon-Tue (1993 )
  • Shore Life (1995 )
  • Seafaring Man ( 2001)
  • The Scrape (2003)
  • The Order of Things ( 2005)
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