The Mountaineers ....... two parts Welsh ......... one part Czech ......... individual backgrounds ..... rich in eccentricity...... Tomas Kelar..... Czech element ........ album ........ off discovering .......... Arabian desert ........ son of a Czech gypsy .......... Ceri James and Alex Germains ....... Hope, Wales . .......... Germains' parents are classical musicians ........... grandparents .......... circus........ James ........ studied electronic music at university .......... large musical family .......... violin maker ........ grandmother ......... piano .......... Vienna Conservatory.
MOUNTAINEERS:
Lo-fi aesthetics and tons of good ideas. Great songs, constructed out of punk and imaginative electronics, starting off with a vocoder, a disco base and a piano. Pop with capital letters.
