Where else can you hear…
•R.E.M’s Mike Mills
•Tabla player/producer KARSH KALE,
•Telecaster maestro JIM CAMPILONGO (THE LITTLE WILLIES),
•ETHEL, the maverick string quartet,
•Avant-jazz saxophonist MICHAEL BLAKE (LOUNGE LIZARDS),
•FORRO IN THE DARK percussionist Mauro Refosco
and
•Buddy Cage, pedal steel guitar legend (BOB DYLAN, NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE)
…together on one record?
MUDVILLE reaches ever more stirring and soulful musical heights with their fourth release, Iris Nova. This meticulously crafted album features collaborations with an eclectic array of great artists.
The new album from songwriter/vocalist Marilyn Carino and producer/instrumentalist Benny Cha Cha, Iris Nova furthers the retro-futuristic excursions of 2005’s acclaimed The Glory of Man is Not in Vogue (hailed by Nylon as “enchanting…a testament to the healing powers of rhythm” and called “poetic” and “other-worldly” by the New York Post). With eleven original tunes plus a cover of The Police’s “Spirits in the Material World,” Mudville seamlessly blends old-school soul and hip-hop grooves with a jazz sensibility, electronica flourishes, dub and live orchestral arrangements. The songs on Iris Nova paint captivating portraits of spiritual ambivalence, anguish and liberation, all on a palette of juicy grooves.
Take Mudville
home with you:
Marilyn Carino's solo EP is out now
LITTLE GENIUS • 1
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IRIS NOVA (2007)
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THE
GLORY OF MAN IS NOT IN VOGUE (2005)
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MUDVILLE
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SIDE
TRAX (REMIXES)(2006)
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Mudville's
2005 full-length album, The Glory of Man Is Not In Vogue,
was released world-wide. Tracks from that record have been heard on over 150
US and Canadian radio stations including KCRW's Morning Becomes
Eclectic, the NPR programs Morning
Edition and Studio 360 as well as in
the feature film Slutty Summer and on the Gemini Award-winning
Canadian TV show ReGenesis.
On stage,
Mudville's powerful live show includes drummer John Bollinger
(Antony and the Johnsons) and keyboardist/guitarist Brian
Charette (Chaka Kahn, Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper).
They have recently shared stages with Talib Kweli and Mos Def (Black
Star), Brazilian Girls, Large Professor, Wilco, Tina Dico (Zero 7),
and comedian David Cross.
Producer/bassist
Ben Rubin (aka Benny Cha Cha) who has remixed tracks for Wu-Tang
Clan's Killah Priest, Brazilian Girls, Karsh
Kale, Marshall Crenshaw and others, skillfully combines
fresh production (beats, samples, synths) with old-school instruments (double
bass, Hammond B3 organ, whole orchestras) to create earthy, idiosyncratic music
that spotlights songwriter/vocalist Marilyn Carino's keen prose and expansive
wail. With "serious chops" (Time Out New York) and comparisons
to Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone and Annie
Lennox, Carino (who has also loaned her strange, fearless voice to
projects produced by Billy Talbot of Neil Young and
Crazy Horse and Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare)
plays muse to Rubin's unsettling yet compelling blend of churning rhythms and
lush symphonic arrangements.
