Mimi secue
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Mimi Secue is a slowcore music band from Austria
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Mimi Secue see themselves as a classically rock-orchestrated band with guitar
s, bass guitar
, drums
and voice, extended by strings, vibraphone
, glockenspiel
and metallophone
bound to the slowed-down guitar music.
. This second studio-album was published on the new independent label Karate Joe with the catalogue number KJ001 in April 2002. The track "Sunchild" instantly became the audio signature of the radioshow "Im Sumpf" on Austria's Public Radio Station FM4
(ORF) in 2002.
During the recordings of s/t and the following concerts, some guest musicians were associated to the band. Together with the groups of artists WR, MFU and David Kleinl, the band created a visual concept for their live-appearances. Videos, which accompany with the music figuratively, should underline the different possibilities of association of Mimi Secue's music.
Martin Siewert (Trapist/ Thrill Jockey
-artist) did the mix and master of the new songs to give them the last cut. A self-contained album was the final result. As Mimi Secue did the mix and master of the Forst album, they also started to work on some new songs. At the end of this process they went back again to Hungary
once, were they recorded these new songs in the summer of 2005. At the end of the year the new album was ready for the mix down. Once again Martin Siewert did the post-production. He also played all lap steel and pedal steel guitars for the new album called Naila.
Since then the band has played several live-performances at festivals, like moving patterns (New York City
), Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, ModernistMozart (Vienna
).
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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Formation
Mimi Secue started to make music in the spring of 1999. The crystallisation point of the early musical work was the Cselley Mill, a long time point of culture and music in the east of AustriaAustria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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Mimi Secue see themselves as a classically rock-orchestrated band with guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s, bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
and voice, extended by strings, vibraphone
Vibraphone
The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....
, glockenspiel
Glockenspiel
A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...
and metallophone
Metallophone
A metallophone is any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet.Metallophones have been used in music for hundreds of years. There are several different types used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan ensembles, including the gendér, gangsa...
bound to the slowed-down guitar music.
Debut album
In September 1999 the debut album Amazonas was developed and published by the label P.A.M. Records / Edel, which does not exist any more. The album contained seven calm and rather introverted and reserved songs, which defined the band's future musical adjustments and aesthetic.Second album
In August 2001 the band returned to the Cselley Mill to record ten songs for the second self-titled LPLP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
. This second studio-album was published on the new independent label Karate Joe with the catalogue number KJ001 in April 2002. The track "Sunchild" instantly became the audio signature of the radioshow "Im Sumpf" on Austria's Public Radio Station FM4
FM4
FM4 is an Austrian national radio station, operated by the ORF. Its main target is the youth audience, and much of the music output is characterised by an alternative rock and electronic music slant....
(ORF) in 2002.
During the recordings of s/t and the following concerts, some guest musicians were associated to the band. Together with the groups of artists WR, MFU and David Kleinl, the band created a visual concept for their live-appearances. Videos, which accompany with the music figuratively, should underline the different possibilities of association of Mimi Secue's music.
Third album
In February 2003 Mimi Secue retired themselves to the west Hungarian outback to record their third album Forst in self-direction, which was on Karate Joe again. It took the band 12 months to record the material for seven new songs, so that it was possible to start the post-production in February 2004.Martin Siewert (Trapist/ Thrill Jockey
Thrill Jockey
Thrill Jockey Records is an American independent record label established in 1992 in New York City by former Atlantic Records A&R representative Bettina Richards.-History:...
-artist) did the mix and master of the new songs to give them the last cut. A self-contained album was the final result. As Mimi Secue did the mix and master of the Forst album, they also started to work on some new songs. At the end of this process they went back again to Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
once, were they recorded these new songs in the summer of 2005. At the end of the year the new album was ready for the mix down. Once again Martin Siewert did the post-production. He also played all lap steel and pedal steel guitars for the new album called Naila.
Since then the band has played several live-performances at festivals, like moving patterns (New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
), Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, ModernistMozart (Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
).
Albums
- 2000 - Amazonas - Pam Records
- 2002 - Mimi Secue - Karate Joe Records
- 2004 - Forst - Karate Joe Records
- 2005 - Naila - Karate Joe Records