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'Mozart has the blues' (Mhdb), Kassel/Germany, play experimental songs with absurd German texts as well as a few instrumentals - or: Avantgarde Jazz & Absurd Rock. Mhdb use their songs ('Mhdb standards') as a starting point for permanent experiments, for example, with very different styles, but above all urban music, culture & development of the global megacities and historical metropolises like:
Iraqi Music * * & Baghdad (Wiki, Dr & Perc) - Sacred Music & Lubeck (Wiki, Dr & Perc) - Ali Farka Toure (g, voc) & Timbuktu (Wiki, Dr & Perc) - Jazz * * & Shanghai (Wiki, Dr & Perc) - Salsa & New York (Wiki, Dr & Perc) - Albert Ammons's (p) Boogie Woogie - Chevelle - Neil Cowley Trio - Metal double bass drumming * - prime number based odd measures - 5/4 * - etc.
Mhdb have US-European roots and maybe have been influenced by more than 300 pieces from the 18th century to the present: from Mozart's Sonata Facile up to Chevelle, Mexican Sun, Ludacris (voc), How Low, and songs of other bands.
The Mhdb texts are similar to the spoken word or text collages, which constantly change, but much slower than the accompanying music.
From 1989 to 1991 there was a proto Mhdb band called 'Mozart'. Then, in 1991, Mhdb were founded as a percussion group and also session band. This group or band tested out Rock & Jazz standards, German folksongs, and arias. From 1992 to 1993 the Mhdb-related 'Scheik' trio (tbn, b, steeld-d) virtually processed this percussion & session stuff into various 5/4 adaptations without texts, for example: Trophie (mp3, 30 sec), a 5/4 adaptation of a Jazz standard by Monk */Clarke, Epistrophy, and the prototype of the later Mhdb BumerangTrophue (mp3, 3:36 min). From 1993 to 1996 the 'Scheik' duo (sous, steeld-d) developed Mhdb prototype songs from the former Scheik trio adaptations, but only in 5/4, too, and added the first self-composed song prototypes, for example: the prototype of the KarlMarxShuffle (mp3, 30 sec), 1996, without text.
In 1994 Mhdb became an experimental duo (speaker-b, speaker-steeld-d). This duo completed the prototype songs with absurd German texts, that dealt with absurd everyday life in modern German history and global developmental differences. The texts resources came from: Stan & Ollie *, Mrs. Miller, Mozart, Joachim Ringelnatz, Karl Marx *, et al., and of course Mhdb's global orientation. Song example: KarlMarxShuffle (mp3, 30 sec), 1998, with text. From 1999 to 2005 Mhdb performed as an Avantgarde Jazz & Absurd Rock trio (g, speaker-b, speaker-steeld-d). This trio specified the former Mhdb duo repertory. For example again: KarlMarxShuffle (mp3, 30 sec), 2005, text.
On live sessions as well as a virtual and beginning e-jam band, the Mhdb
session band & computer music group has experimented
Bambulete.org * is virtually the non-identical twin of Mhdb: two drummers and one computer for percussion and more = non-tonal Mhdb standards, Free Jazz, etc. Established in 2010. - The KarlMarxShuffle, for example, is played as a 5/4 percussion song: CharliesShufflete (exceptionally a little bit tonally).
The Esquires * (Beat band, Berlin, 1964-67) were the first pre-Mhdb band.
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