Le Cheile 2004

Mundy

FRIDAY, MAY 14TH, 2004 sees the release of RAINING DOWN ARROWS, the third album from MUNDY.

The lead single 'By Her Side' is about to hit radio stations across the country.

The 12-track album was recorded in Austin Texas with Mark and Nina Addison, who provided instruments and additional vocals on the bulk of the new collection. Dave Odlum (The Frames, Josh Ritter and Gemma Hayes) mixed the album in Blackbox in France.

"I made this album in August 2003 with an amazing couple that I met at a venue called the Hideout in Chicago in 2001. Mark the producer has a small label called India records in Austin, TX. This particular night was a showcase for the label that I stumbled upon with a friend of mine called Zoran and 3 Birriers (i.e. people from Birr, Co. Offaly !!).. 3 acts played, Will Sexton, brother of Charlie Sexton who played guitar with Bob Dylan. Kitty Gordon, Jeff Klein and Sheridan played too. I loved the music and the fact that they all backed up each other's performances. I bought all their albums that night and having been to Austin a couple of times and fell in love with the place I thought that it would be the next place to record. The reasons being.. I bought the hat from 24*hotel there, Townes van Zandt, I saw Lucinda Williams there and the fact that I could sleep on the couch of Mark Addison and his wife Nina and make a back to basics record. Mark can play almost anything and Nina is a great drummer and singer. Binzer played drums on two tracks and Dave Odlum played Guitars on some songs as well.

All the people that played in Chicago that night performed on Raining down Arrows plus a few more great people. Austin oozes music. It's good to record with strangers some times and let the music be the only language. We're not strangers anymore though! I've been listening to a lot of music heavily influenced from that part of the world from, Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Sparklehorse, Emmylou, Steve Earle, The Band, GP and so on. It was mixed in Blackbox in France by the hard working Dave Odlum, that's my story anyway.. Another very enjoyable album to make."
- Mundy

Further details available from the official Mundy Website

 

Mundy will be playing on Saturday 31st July at 9:30 pm in the ONYX Nightclub (Ceili House)