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Having toured practically the whole of Europe
during the last few years, Mocky, who was born in Canada under the
name of Dominic Salole, is about to release his third solo recording,
"Navy Brown Blues". On his new album, Mocky, who is renowned
for his soulful, genre-transgressing music and existential and sensitive
lyrics, has put aside his laptop (which he still held in his hands
on the sleeve of the predecessor album, "Are+Be"), coming
up with a fantastic record which he will for the first time also
perform live, supported by a big line-up: "At the age of 14,
I already smuggled my drums backstage in a hockey bag at jazz clubs
because I was too young to play there officially," says Mocky,
"and now , the time has come for me to smuggle acoustic instruments
back into electronic music!"
Mocky moved from Canada to Europe in 1999 to join his friends, Gonzales
and Peaches, with whom he had already played in Canada in the legendary
band The Shit (whose song "Animal" also features in a
new version on "Navy Brown Blues"). He brought out a number
of 12 inches and remixes and played in Mercury Prize winner and
tabla maestro Talvin Sing's band. 2001 saw the arrival of his first
solo album, "In Mesopotamia", and a tour through the zoos
of Europe's capitals to promote the album. This tour helped him
to find his very own sound. "Monkeys can be an extremely discriminating
audience," comments Mocky, looking back. At any rate, the search
for his "own sound" seems to be of fundamental importance
for Mocky. His mixed Yemeni/British origins and his family heritage
of writers and philosophers (his grandfather wrote the book, "In
Mesopotamia", to which his debut's title refers) allow Mocky
to repeatedly phrase an existential question in his music: "Who
are we?"
The success of his hit, "Sweet Music", in 2004 led to
a contract with Four Music and his second album release, "Are
+ Be". The album underpinned his reputation as an underground
pop phenomenon. Songs such as "Mickey Mouse Muthaf"#*as"
and his legendary Google video narrowly escaped a lawsuit from the
Disney corporation. Another key track on the album, "How Will
I Know You", featured Jamie Lidell and marked the beginning
of a fruitful cooperation between the two artists/producers, impressively
continued on "Navy Brown Blues", last but not least in
Jamie's soulful falsetto vocals on "In The Meantime".
Next to British-born Lidell, Mocky 's long-standing collaborator
Gonzales is on board again, playing a number of tracks live with
Mocky at a studio in Paris. The vocals for the first single release
from the album, "Fightin' Away The Tears", featuring Canadian
vocalist Feist, were also recorded in Paris, while Mocky produced
the rest of the album at his new backyard studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Taylor Savvy completes the vocal triumvirate that could already
be heard in precisely the same constellation on "Are + Be",
on the track "Elementary". |
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