Mouth Music (band)

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Mouth Music is an Edinburgh, Scotland-based band whose combination of traditional puirt a beul songs and styles with African-inspired rhythms and instrumentation led them to international fame in the early 1990s.

Mouth Music was first formed as a duo between vocalist Talitha MacKenzie and multi-instrumentalist Martin Swan. Their first album, Mouth Music, climbed the Billboard charts to reach number one world music album in 1991. When MacKenzie left to pursue a solo career, Swan re-formed the group as a quintet and Mo-Di rose to number two in the same category in 1993. ^{^[1]^[2]}

The 2005 album The Order of Things contains the track "The Dae Doers", which is the oldest known written Scottish music extant. ^{^[3]}