Mouth Music (band)
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Mouth Music is an Edinburgh-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 comprising vocalist Talitha MacKenzie and multi-instrumentalist Martin Swan. Their first album, Mouth Music, reached number one on the Billboard Top World Music Albums chart in 1991. Martyn Bennett was a featured collaborator on this album. 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] Since then the group has released several further albums with an ever-changing line-up.
The 2005 album The Order of Things contains the track The Dae Doers, which is the oldest known written Scottish music extant. [3]
[edit] Discography
- Mouth Music (1991)
- Blue Door Green Sea EP (1992)
- Mo-Di (1993)
- Shorelife (1995)
- Seafaring Man (2001)
- The Scrape (2003)
- The Order of Things (2005)
[edit] References
- ^ Harris, Craig. "Biography", allmusic.com, n.d., retrieved October 12, 2006
- ^ "Charts & Awards" page, allmusic.com
- ^ Footstompin.com
