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Profile GeneratorSalute Mummer the new amazing versatile project of former Klein act Mum member Stefan Jungmair and vocal goddess Betty Semper, both based in Vienna and both into the high art of equivocating.
After all apart from being the title of an XTC record, a `Mummer` is someone who likes to disguise, putting on costumes - a synonym for `guiser`. So we´re speaking of someone with various faces and someone who can not easily be identified. All in all `Mummers` like to remain a trifle mysterious and unclear, always full of surprises and unpredictable. It´s music that doesn´t want to come across dead serious but still has you smiling if you take those blinkers off your ears.
Stefan Jungmair used to be part of the Austrian Beathead duo Mum, who were among the first artists on Klein Records. Two men who had venus on their foreheads, all duke cut and got you caught like a trout. Almost a decade ago, Stefan and Paul Schneider started building their MUM universe abusing Electro, 70s Funk, Jazz with a little wink in the eye - defying the logic of musical barriers. Which resulted in strangely hypnotic yet highly danceable velvety soundtracks for imaginary films to conjure up pulsating micro-epics in your head and made the international press sigh with pleasure and scream with confusion. It could have gone terribly wrong if they hadn´t been so tirelessly innovative and funky delivering Fusion the way it should be done.
Exclusive pre-listening of Mummer - "SoulOrganismState" HERE
Some press quotes:
Mum war schon eine verdammt gute Band. Mummer ist eben noch mehr! Verdammt lässige Scheibe! Kurier. 09/06
Ein fein zwischen dezent funky und sehr entspannt abgeschmecktes, stimmungsvolles Album, das Klischees von Kaffeehaus-Sound umschifft und eine schöne Portion Soul aufweist. NOW!, 09/06
Jazziger Downbeat, glitchy Dub und elektronischer Funk. Mummer zeigen sich nicht nur konsequent in Sachen Maultrommel, sondern halten fernab aller Moden an der Musik fest, die sie lieben. TBA, 10/06
Mummer legen mit SoulOrganismState ein vokallastiges Album zwischen Soul, loungigem Funk und Jazzz-Bässen sowie Lifestyle-Eletronik vor, das wesentlich durchmischter klingt, als es die Summe der genannten Genres erahnen liese. Standard, 09/06
SoulOrganismState wartet neben handelsüblichen Beats und Bässen daher auch mit abwechslungsreicher Instrumentierung einer Soulstimme mit Wiedererkennungswert sowie weitgehend unpeinlichen Jazzanflügen auf. Man hat das zwar schon oft so ähnlich gehört, aber noch nicht genau so. Falter, 09/06
Verblüfft registriert man, als Hörer zwischen den Stühlen zu sitzen und es dennoch sehr bequem zu haben. Ihr Debüt verströmt eine spezielle Note mal zurückhaltend und pastellfarben, dann sehr expressiv und mit grellen Farben arbeitend. Ein überzeugendes Album! Jazzthing, 09/06
LOVE the mummer album - excellent - total class! Nick Luscombe / XFM Flomotion
Stylish jazzy brokensoulers Mosoul.co.uk
A top notch album that you would be very silly to miss, very silly indeed! Discoid.it
Sounds likeAlice Russell produced by Plaid, quirky! Alan Gubby / Nanny Tango
A magnific sonic gem for all generations in all planets and galaxies! Jazzed-up broken beats clashing with futuristic beats and blue velvet voices in tones of magic colours, explicit organic grooves with the 21st century soul music. Helene Ramos Galagarza
Mummer´s downtempo, moderately eclectic, semi-minimalist music is sooo groovy and catchy and paradoxically lush that you can´t help but get into that groove. Sultry and sexy, smoky grooves and steamy atmosphere. Mumer exercise their talent with quiet confidence. Four stars. DJFix
This stuff is certain to find its way onto `chilled`nugroove compilations and into DJ sets at upscale lounges, and deservedly so. For funky downtempo Soulorganismstate is chilled to perfection. Score, Baby!
Mummer - "SoulOrganismState" available at...
Klein Records Homepage
Soul Seduction
Finetunes
