Biography
The Mumbles are a Brooklyn, NY-based three-piece-- a tiny band with a mighty sound. Using two keyboards, drum kit, and a female voice, they combine soul music with avant and old time jazz to create "pop songs in the key of partying down" (Time Out New York).
Keysman Keith Burnstein and drummer Ethan Shorter met in the rhythm section of a 14 piece hip hop orchestra, soon striking out on their own in late 2006 to write tunes that would become Mumbles mainstays. As a duo, the boys distilled songs to their essence, rounding out their sound with the subsequent addition of vocalist Meredith Claire. Burnstein heard Claire sing at an open mic night in 2007, and was so impressed that he asked her to join the Mumbles on the spot.
As a trio, the band delights in a dynamic that "...marries the bedroom intimacy of a singer-songwriter, with the expansive musical prowess of a psych jazz outfit" (Seven Days Vermont). After the completion of their first record, "Once Eponymous", in 2008, The Mumbles have been touring the country on the heels of a national AAA radio campaign, with fine stations nation wide playing the disc in heavy rotation. Critics have called the break-out single, 'Bite-Size (Brawn w/ Brio)', "Lounge music for the super-hip" (Roanoke Times) with a vibe that is "...equal parts Tom Waits gruffness and Woody Allen pathos" (The L Magazine).
During breaks in their travels, The Mumbles recorded a follow-up EP, entitled "Muddy Mantras", available now on CD baby . In late '09, it's back out on the road with gigs on the West Coast, Northeast, and a week in New Orleans in December. The band's newest mantra: "Speak softly and learn how to change a tire".
The Mumbles' "Muddy Mantras" is available on iTunes as well as other major digital retailers.
or at CD BABY
http://cdbaby.com/cd/TheMumbles1
The Mumbles have been featured on these quality radio stations in the U.S. and Canada:
CKUA-Edmonton, Ontario
KVMR-Nevada City,CA
KMUD-Redway, CA
KDNK-Carbondale, CO
KVNF-Paonia, CO
WESU-Middletown, CT
WWUH-Westhartford, CT
WMNF-Tampa, FL
KUNI-Cedar Falls, IA
WEFT-Champaign, IL
WFBH-Bloomington, IN
WHAY-Whitley City, KY
WMKY-Moorhead, KY
KRVS-Lafayette, LA
WERS-Boston, MA
WHFC-Bel Air, MD
WERU- E. Orland, ME
KAXE-Grand Rapids, MN
KCMO-Saint Paul, MN
KFAI-Minneapolis, MN
KDHX-St. Louis, MO
KOPN-Columbia, MO
WDVR-Sargentlsville, NJ
WAER-Syracuse,NY
WFUV-NY. NY
WJFF-Jeffersonville,NY
WDPS-Dayton,OH
KSMF-Ashland,OR
KRVM-Eugene,OR
KBOO-Portland, OR
WDIY-Bethlehem,PA
WXPN-Philadelphia,PA
KPCW-Park City, UT
KRCL-Salt Lake City, UT
KZMU-Moab, UT
WRRW-Virginia Beach, VA
KSER-Everett, WA
WOJB-Hayward, WI
Instrumentation
KEITH BURNSTEIN-keyboards and vocals
ETHAN SHORTER- drums
MEREDITH CLAIRE-vocals, guitar
Discography
MUDDY MANTRAS-2009
ONCE EPONYMOUS-2008
SNIPPIN THE BONSAI-2007
THE MUMBLES-2004
THE LION'S DENTIST-2003
KIDNAPPING GERSHWIN-2001
Links
| http://www.myspace.com/brooklynmumbles |