Mummer

Salute 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. “Soulorganismstate” makes a debut of a special kind & flavour: Sweet and sour, mellow and yellow, high- and lowdown – all the same. The classically trained Jazz musician, composer/producer and the gifted singer have created an album that could be easily tagged soulful at first listen but there is way much more to it than that. Moreover it´s soulorganic and way beyond the “It's an ecclectic mix of this and that” bull, you´ll see. Always on the quest for musical contrasts, the two wizards of sound reanimate and masquerade Dance and Funk genre elements into never-known timbres and are a credit to their name. 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. The Dadaism of MUM is apparent still, it´s an album that doesn´t want to come across dead serious but still has you smiling if you take those blinkers off your ears. “Soulorganismstate” is clearly a vocal album which does feature three vocalists of a special kind and calibre. Of course there´s Betty Semper herself who´s already lend her angelic voice to MUM´s second album, `The Szabotnik 15 Mission`. Then we have the guest singers: Adding to the roots share of the album is no one else but Berlin-based Blues crooner Wayne Martin, a real soul man who´s cooperated with Boozoo Bajoo / K7 for instance. Also on the vocal cruise ship is the Viennese newcomer, singer and songwriter Angela Reisinger – also known as Angel Rice, she is one of the best young Jazz voices in the country. If you´re a mummer, you´re keeping mum: Stefan Jungmair used to be part of the Austrian 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 thei MUM universe abusing Electro, Jazz, 70s Funk, Hip Hop, Dub, Soul 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. http://www.kleinrecords.com/ http://www.myspace.com/mummer1 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.