múm
múm (pronounced [muːm], “moom”) is an experimental electronic group from Ic… Read Full Bio ↴múm (pronounced [muːm], “moom”) is an experimental electronic group from Iceland whose music is characterized by soft vocals, eccentric beats and colorful effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.
Originally a duo, the band has expanded and contracted in the 12 years of being and has counted 15 - 20 people along the way.
The band was formed in 1997 by original members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, their first release was a split 10" with the girl-band Spúnk and saw light in the summer of '98. They were joined a year later by twin sisters Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir and released two albums as quartet. Following a number of collaborative projects, the group’s celebrated debut album Yesterday was dramatic - today is OK (reissued by Morr Music in October 2005) gained a wealth of glowing press and widespread praise. A remix project, Please Smile My Noise Bleed, also released on the Morr Music label in November 2001.
In 2002, after the release of Finally We Are No One and the extensive first world tour, Gyða left the band to return to her studies in Reykjavík. Shortly after, the third sister Ásthildur Valtýsdóttir joined for singing duties temporarily and Serena Tideman replaced Gyða on cello, for a single European tour. The band's third album, Summer Make Good, a darker and foggier, nautically themed work was released in May 2004, flanked by two singles, Nightly Cares and Dusk Log. By then the ensemble had evolved to include Eiríkur Ólafsson and Hildur Guðnadóttir (who had guest appearances on múm recordings from the beginning) and Ólöf Arnalds. In early 2006, Kristín also left the band after releasing and heavily touring the album Summer Make Good.
The start of 2006 saw the band's creativity start to blossom once again, starting with two remixes Goldfrapp of the tracks ‘Number 1’ and ‘You Never Know’. They followed this with two legendary DJ sets at the FatCat Festival in Belgium in February and SXSW in Austin Texas 2007. With a combination of decks, effects, laptops, toy microphones, old cassette player recordings and vocals, coupled with their own recorded material, strange electronic covers by friends, gypsy folk music and general craziness on stage. They were also subsequently invited DJ at Summer Sonic Festival in Japan as well as be headline act as DJ's in Radio 1’s Rob Da Bank tent at Bestival on the Isle of Wight. In september 2007 múm released Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy which turned out to be the bands last release for the Fatcat Records.
múm has always worked on projects which could be classed as unusual for a pop band or a pop collective. Among their extra curricular activity is their own soundtrack for the classic Sergei Eisenstein film, 'Battleship Potemkin', live performances of which have taken place in Hafnafjordur Iceland, Brooklyn Lyceum New York, and at the distinguished Gijon Film Festival Spain. múm have also composed for theater, most notably two radio theater plays, 'Svefnhjólið' (Sleeping Wheel) by Gyrdir Eliasson which won the Nordic Radio-theater prize and in 2008 Augu þín sáu mig (Your eyes saw me) by poet Sjón (which múm also worked with in 1999 on the operetta Kisa (cat). In 2005 they were invited to Amsterdam by the Holland Festival to collaborate with the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra to create a performance piece based around various compositions of the late avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis for one of the centre piece shows at the festival.
múm released their fifth studio album, Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know, in August 2009. The collective now consists of founding members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason and for touring and recording, this line-up is expanded to include their friends Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (trumpet / piano/ keyboards), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello / vocals), Sigurlaug Gísladóttir (Vocals / ukulele/ various), Róbert Reynisson (guitars/ukulele's) and the Finnish Samuli Kosminen (drums / percussion). The musical group sometimes extends to Ólöf Arnalds, Högni Egilsson, Ólafur Björn Ólafsson and Guðbjörg Hlín Guðmundsdóttir as well as a never ending family of friends and musicians who may join at the drop of a hat.
Official website: http://www.mum.is
Originally a duo, the band has expanded and contracted in the 12 years of being and has counted 15 - 20 people along the way.
The band was formed in 1997 by original members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, their first release was a split 10" with the girl-band Spúnk and saw light in the summer of '98. They were joined a year later by twin sisters Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir and released two albums as quartet. Following a number of collaborative projects, the group’s celebrated debut album Yesterday was dramatic - today is OK (reissued by Morr Music in October 2005) gained a wealth of glowing press and widespread praise. A remix project, Please Smile My Noise Bleed, also released on the Morr Music label in November 2001.
In 2002, after the release of Finally We Are No One and the extensive first world tour, Gyða left the band to return to her studies in Reykjavík. Shortly after, the third sister Ásthildur Valtýsdóttir joined for singing duties temporarily and Serena Tideman replaced Gyða on cello, for a single European tour. The band's third album, Summer Make Good, a darker and foggier, nautically themed work was released in May 2004, flanked by two singles, Nightly Cares and Dusk Log. By then the ensemble had evolved to include Eiríkur Ólafsson and Hildur Guðnadóttir (who had guest appearances on múm recordings from the beginning) and Ólöf Arnalds. In early 2006, Kristín also left the band after releasing and heavily touring the album Summer Make Good.
The start of 2006 saw the band's creativity start to blossom once again, starting with two remixes Goldfrapp of the tracks ‘Number 1’ and ‘You Never Know’. They followed this with two legendary DJ sets at the FatCat Festival in Belgium in February and SXSW in Austin Texas 2007. With a combination of decks, effects, laptops, toy microphones, old cassette player recordings and vocals, coupled with their own recorded material, strange electronic covers by friends, gypsy folk music and general craziness on stage. They were also subsequently invited DJ at Summer Sonic Festival in Japan as well as be headline act as DJ's in Radio 1’s Rob Da Bank tent at Bestival on the Isle of Wight. In september 2007 múm released Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy which turned out to be the bands last release for the Fatcat Records.
múm has always worked on projects which could be classed as unusual for a pop band or a pop collective. Among their extra curricular activity is their own soundtrack for the classic Sergei Eisenstein film, 'Battleship Potemkin', live performances of which have taken place in Hafnafjordur Iceland, Brooklyn Lyceum New York, and at the distinguished Gijon Film Festival Spain. múm have also composed for theater, most notably two radio theater plays, 'Svefnhjólið' (Sleeping Wheel) by Gyrdir Eliasson which won the Nordic Radio-theater prize and in 2008 Augu þín sáu mig (Your eyes saw me) by poet Sjón (which múm also worked with in 1999 on the operetta Kisa (cat). In 2005 they were invited to Amsterdam by the Holland Festival to collaborate with the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra to create a performance piece based around various compositions of the late avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis for one of the centre piece shows at the festival.
múm released their fifth studio album, Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know, in August 2009. The collective now consists of founding members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason and for touring and recording, this line-up is expanded to include their friends Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (trumpet / piano/ keyboards), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello / vocals), Sigurlaug Gísladóttir (Vocals / ukulele/ various), Róbert Reynisson (guitars/ukulele's) and the Finnish Samuli Kosminen (drums / percussion). The musical group sometimes extends to Ólöf Arnalds, Högni Egilsson, Ólafur Björn Ólafsson and Guðbjörg Hlín Guðmundsdóttir as well as a never ending family of friends and musicians who may join at the drop of a hat.
Official website: http://www.mum.is
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múm Lyrics
01-Weeping Rock Rock In the longest of nights Stir him at your breast In silence…
A Little Bit Sometimes You're upon my eyes, a little bit A little bit, sometimes …
A River Don't Stop to Breathe A river don't stop to breathe The water don't stop to…
Abandoned Ship Bells Can't you hear them sing for you...…
Blessed Brambles Bless the weeds that grow on the yard Just like rain…
Blow Your Nose The earth moves and the sun keeps still, bathwater tides…
Boots of Fog Blacks in the morning there were Down (down) by (by) the…
Candlestick Could've hit you with a candlestick But I want you in…
Dancing Behind My Eyelids See the fog on my horizon, it's dancing And it smells…
Grasi vaxin göng Í gegnum sprungu drýpur suð í gegnum rifu lekur hljóð á bakv…
Green Grass of Tunnel Down from my ceiling Drips great noise. It drips on…
Guilty Rocks Your glancing cracks your skin Clear lights on dirty bulbs, …
Hullaballabalú Para, padam padam, para Pararara rara, pararara rara, para …
If I Were a Fish If I were a fish and you were a seashell Would…
Illuminated Illuminated, back on the road, I fell in the snow,…
Kay-ray-ku-ku-ko-kex Kay-Ray-Kú-Kú-Kô-Kex, Kay-Ray-Kú-Kú-Kô-Kex Kay-Ray-Kú-Kú-Kô…
Ladies of the New Century Ladies of the new world, rest your worried eyes, rest…
Land Between Solar Systems There's that fear again, Coming through the grass, Deeper …
Marmalade Fires We throw our loupes, our little phone Our lovely shorts, oh…
Moon Pulls Feel the moon pull your love Faster up to the sky Feel…
Nightly Cares Scar the fire son Pet the smiling one Woo the sleeping one R…
Now There's That Fear Again Give a stale piece of my braids Float down strangers Flow a…
Now Theres That Fear Again Give a stale piece of my braids Float down strangers Flo…
Oh Oh, how the boat drifts Oh, how the tides shift I lie…
One Smile One smile, one smile One smile One smile, one smile One s…
Prophecies & Reversed Memories La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la You've…
Show Me Show me the way you worship little things, show me…
Sing Along Sing along to songs you don't know And you'll never know…
Slow Down Slow down, so I can catch you Slow down, so I…
Small Deaths Are the Saddest In sae jav in ro/ duu duu duu oh,,,mmm.oh/mmmm/ahh duuu in…
Smell Memory (Instrumental)…
Sweet Impressions Sweet impressions, looks of longing Screaming through our s…
The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records Stand a little From your hand Broken birdie Lost his voice …
The Colorful Stabwound Some people smile with every tooth Some teeth will ache wit…
The Ghosts You Draw On My Back The wind plays flute Through the cellar door And on my windo…
The Island of Children's Children Swim to shore, we two, pet the kids, we who Lose…
the land between solar There's that fear again, Coming through the grass, Deeper it…
The Last Shapes of Never Swimming goes my shadow in the dark, dark of the…
The Smell of Today Is Sweet Like Breastmilk in the Wind The smell of today is sweet like breastmilk in the…
These Eyes Are Berries These berries are eyes Your eyes, my eyes Birds turn their n…
They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Explode Ooh, don't pull its legs! They're pulled Don't squeeze it to…
They Made Frogs Smoke 'til They Exploded Ooh, don't pull it's legs! They're pulled! Don't squeeze it…
Time to Scream and Shout In the morning When it's dawning That's when we go out Pu…
Toothwheels This door will never open Why would it? We never tried to …
Underwater Snow Forget me now Forget me now I am just a tree on…
Við erum með landakort af píanóinu Flæddu ei svo greitt þú gamla litla suð Ég bleyti teikning…
We All Have a Map of the Piano Please don't flow so fast You little mountain hum I'll take …
Weeping Rock Rock In the longest of nights Stir him at your breast In silence…
weeping rock. rock In the longest of nights Stir him at your breast In silenc…
We_have_a_map_of_the_piano Please don't flow so fast You little mountain hum I'll tak…
When Girls Collide When girls collide Bits of flesh and eyeballs burning in th…
Whistle I bleed like a pig It's not so unusual It might seem…
Will the Summer Make Good for All Please don't cry for hammer in your teeth We'll spoil the…
Will the Summer Make Good for All of Our Sins Please don't cry for hammer in your teeth We'll spoil the…