Morcheeba

Morcheeba is a British group of music resulting from Dover mixing Downtempo, Trip hop, Rhythm and blues and pop. It is formed of the brothers Paul Godfrey (DJ) and Ross Godfrey (guitar and keyboard) as well as singer Skye Edwards. Skye Edwards left the group in 2003, because of musical divergences according to the members of the group. She was replaced in 2005, for the album The Antidote by the singer Daisy Martey. Daisy Martey left the in June 2005 group and was replaced by the chorus-singer/Australian saxophonist Jody Sternberg.

The significance of the name of the group is following the " More Cheeba" , i.e. " More grass (to be smoked)! " or " Still of grass! ". This direction was confirmed without ambiguity by Paul Godfrey at the time of the concert in Olympia in June 2005. " Mor" also mean " Middle off the road" to indicate that music of Morcheeba flirte between a popular music and a more experimental music.

Formation

The group was formed in the middle of the Années 1990 with Paul Godfrey (DJ), Ross Godfrey (guitar and keyboard) and Skye Edwards whose voice gave the immediately recognizable color of Morcheeba. Daisy Martey (previously in the group Noonday Undergroud) joined the group in 2005 after the departure of Skye Edwards, which carries out a career solo now. However since Skye Edwards and its voice had become a paramount share of the sound of Morcheeba in the spirits of many fans of the group, abrupt the enough change for a new singer generated shared reactions. Perhaps because of that, the Godfrey brothers recently replaced Daisy by another singer - Jody Sternberg - for their scenic representations, without formally excluding Martey. The group takes currently a little the same direction as Zero 7, another electronic group which does not rest on any principal person, but on a set of vocalists revolving and openly more flexible.

Discography

Albums

Individual

Of Who Edge You Trust?
  • Trigger Hippie 1996
  • Never year Easy Way 1996
  • Slap Loop 1996
  • The Music That We Hear (Moog Island) 1997
Of Big Calm
  • Shoulder Holster 1997
  • The Sea 1998
  • Blindfold 1998
  • Let Me See 1998
  • Share off the Process 1998
  • Summertime 1998
Of Fragments Off Freedom
  • Rome Wasn' T Built in has Day 2000
  • Be Yourself 2000
  • World Looking In 2001
Of Charango
  • Otherwise 2002
  • Way Beyond 2002
Of Shares Off The Process
  • What' S Your Name? 2003
Of The Antidote
  • Wonders Never Cease 2005
  • Lighten Up 2005
  • Everybody Loves has Loser 2005

Others

  • Back to Mine 2001 (compilation multi-artists mixed by Paul Godfrey)
  • the black ball 1998 (Live)
  • Get mashed! 2005 (compilation multi-artists)

External bonds

  • site of their contract with the Indochina label, former to 2005
  • site of their contract with the label Echo, starting from 2005
  • Chronic and topicality of Morcheeba

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