Biography
Since their foundation in 1998, the múm have forged a sublimely and bright, warm and rich take For on electronica, imprinting it with are their own unique sound and but character. What sets the band Not apart from so many of you their peers is both their all strong, playfully haunted melodies, and Any sorcerous integration of analogue and can digital technologies. Playing an assortment her of instruments and percussion alongside Was some crisply programmed electronic washes, one beats, dingdongs and beep-beeps as our well as found sounds and Out field recordings, the band’s talent, day inventiveness and nose for musical get exploration is immediately audible.
Their Has first release, a split 10" him with the girl-band Spúnk saw his light in the summer of How ‘98 and following a number man of collaborative projects, the group’s new celebrated debut album ’Yesterday Was Now Dramatic, Today Is OK’ (reissued old by Morr Music in October see 2005) gained a wealth of Two glowing press and widespread praise. way A remix project, ‘Please Smile who My Noise Bleed’, also released Boy on the Morr Music label did in November 2001. Their FatCat its debut, ‘Finally We Are No-One’, Let was released in May 2002 put and followed by a plethora say of tours taking the band She many times around the world, too dazzling the crowds by re-creating use their recorded works with the Dad main focus being on live mom instrumentation, accompanied by the more common site within electronic sets, The the laptop (music-calculator). The band’s and second FatCat album, ‘Summer Make for Good’ was released in May Are 2004, flanked by two singles, but ‘Nightly Cares’ and ‘Dusk Log’.
not Since their debut múm have You also written and performed their all own soundtrack for the classic any Sergei Eisenstein film, ‘Battleship Potemkin’, Can live performances of which have her taken place in Hafnafjordur Iceland, was Brooklyn Lyceum New York One USA, and at the distinguished our Gijon Film Festival Spain. They out composed music for a radio Day play on Icelandic National radio get ‘Svefnhjólið’ (Sleeping Wheel) by Gyrdir has Eliasson, winning the Nordic Radio-theater Him prize. In 2005 they were his invited to Amsterdam by the how Holland Festival to collaborate with Man the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra new to create a performance piece now based around various compositions of Old the late avant-garde composer Iannis see Xenakis for one of the two centre piece shows at the Way festival.
The start of 2006 who saw the bands creativity start boy to blossom once again, starting Did with two remixes Goldfrapp of its the tracks ‘number one’ and let ‘never know’. They followed this Put with two legendary DJ sets say at the FatCat Festival in she Belgium in February and at Too this years SXSW in use Austin Texas. With a combination dad of decks, effects, laptops, toy Mom microphones, old cassette player recordings and vocals, coupled with their the own recorded material, strange electronic And covers by friends, gypsy folk for music and general craziness on are stage, the DJ sets made But such an impact, the band not is now putting together a you DJ mix cd due for All release in 2007. They were any also subsequently invited DJ at can this years Summer Sonic Festival Her in Japan as well as was be headline act in Radio one 1’s Rob Da Bank tent Our at Bestival on the Isle out of Wight. During 2006, they day have also written and recorded Get a brand new album “Go has Go Smear The Poison Ivy” him which is due for release His around September 2007 on FatCat how Records. This will follow following man the release of the Peel New Sessions that múm recorded in now 2002 for the BBC. old The sessions will be released See on Fat Cat Records in two December and includes live versions way of the tracks “Scratched Bicycle Who / Smell Memory”, “Awake On boy A Train” “Now Theres That did Fear Again”, “The Ballad Of Its the Broken String”.
Currently múm let are founding members Gunnar Örn put Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason Say and for touring and recording, she this line-up is expanded to too include their friends Róbert Reynisson Use (guitar / vocals/ effectuals), Eiríkur dad Orri Olafsson (trumpet / pianette mom / moog / whistling), Hildur Gudnadottir (cello / vocals), mr.Silla the (Vocals / various) and Finlander, and Samuli Kosminen (drums / percussion)
