Mouse on Mars
Schauspiel Leipzig
Sound diversity at its best. Spectrum? From Afrobeat elements and glitch to Krautrock and grunge to techno and ambient.
"Dimensional People" is the eleventh studio album by German electronic group Mouse on Mars and may be considered their most adventurous work to date. The album is an orchestral piece in which musicians express themselves freely. From the beginning, the claim of the originally Cologne/Düsseldorf duo was the discovery of humanity in the electronic sound, a very German theme in the best sense - at this point a reference to the just rediscovered electronic veteran Klaus Schulze, whose early albums are a kind of primary source for this music.
Mouse on Mars belonged and always belong to that type of indie musician who wants to keep his independence and not be dependent on big major labels. This leaves room for their own music. Music that eludes any conformity and from the ground up does not have the number of download clicks and party crowd satisfaction in mind. Dimensional People" also carries the indie idea, even more so when you trace the genesis of the album. The concept of the music is that everyone finds their space in the music and interacts with each other through the dialogic principle. For the project Mouse on Mars have invited more than 50 musicians*, wind instruments, strings, voices. They include the multi-instrumentalist Justin Veron, known from the indie folk band Bon Iver, the US singer and rapper Amanda Blanks and Zach Condon, frontman of the indie rock band Beirut. Warschauer Strasse in Berlin also gets a credit for making noise. Here, it is the guests themselves who determine the coordinates of the open space. In this way, loss of control is created, but also the moment in the music that best makes the creative process visible: Intuition. An approach that is akin to jazz in its essence. The result is an organic sound cosmos that expands the spectrum of elaborate sounds and fragmented melodies to include Afro-beat jazz pulses, ambient surfaces and robo-raps. Mouse-on-Mars live performances always leave you with the feeling of a highly efficient high-speed cure, consisting of psychoanalysis, wellness treatment and adrenaline shock therapy. Bring your dancing shoes! Bring your thinking cap!
Jan St. Werner (live electronics, synth), Andi Toma (live electronics, synth), Dodo NKishi (dr, perc, g), Andrea Belfi (dr), Hilary Jeffery (tp, tb), Moritz Ghost (Sonic Robots)
Mouse on Mars belonged and always belong to that type of indie musician who wants to keep his independence and not be dependent on big major labels. This leaves room for their own music. Music that eludes any conformity and from the ground up does not have the number of download clicks and party crowd satisfaction in mind. Dimensional People" also carries the indie idea, even more so when you trace the genesis of the album. The concept of the music is that everyone finds their space in the music and interacts with each other through the dialogic principle. For the project Mouse on Mars have invited more than 50 musicians*, wind instruments, strings, voices. They include the multi-instrumentalist Justin Veron, known from the indie folk band Bon Iver, the US singer and rapper Amanda Blanks and Zach Condon, frontman of the indie rock band Beirut. Warschauer Strasse in Berlin also gets a credit for making noise. Here, it is the guests themselves who determine the coordinates of the open space. In this way, loss of control is created, but also the moment in the music that best makes the creative process visible: Intuition. An approach that is akin to jazz in its essence. The result is an organic sound cosmos that expands the spectrum of elaborate sounds and fragmented melodies to include Afro-beat jazz pulses, ambient surfaces and robo-raps. Mouse-on-Mars live performances always leave you with the feeling of a highly efficient high-speed cure, consisting of psychoanalysis, wellness treatment and adrenaline shock therapy. Bring your dancing shoes! Bring your thinking cap!
Jan St. Werner (live electronics, synth), Andi Toma (live electronics, synth), Dodo NKishi (dr, perc, g), Andrea Belfi (dr), Hilary Jeffery (tp, tb), Moritz Ghost (Sonic Robots)
