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The Mummers are a band based in the English seaside town of Brighton, centred around London-born singer-songwriter Raissa Khan-Panni. They take their name ‘Mummers’ from the medieval performing troupes who would go from door-to-door wearing masks and costumes, staging plays in rhyme and song and mime.
Khan-Panni was once better known as Raissa, a solo artist that revealed a jumble of influences; a mix of Chinese, Indian, Mexican and Englishness. She was raised in the South London district of Tulse Hill, immersed first as a child in classical music, and later discovered Ricki Lee Jones and Prince. Raissa learned oboe, taught herself to sing, spent her school-days busking in Leicester Square and later all over Europe, before heading back to these shores to study music at Bristol.
Her solo career began not long afterwards, and she enjoyed critical acclaim across the media spectrum, most notably with the album Believer and the single How Long Do I Get. Despite the acclaim Khan-Panni remembers it as a period of some uncertainty.
By 2001, the solo projects were winding down and she returned to work, waitressing fulltime in a Brixton restaurant. During this time she began writing lyrics documenting this period of her life keeping the faith that she would one day leave waiting tables to return to music, She was inspired by the enormity of sound in Rufus Wainwright’s work, and by the spacey-ness of the Flaming Lips.
In 2005, she received through the post a track written around her vocals, and Raissa found her new collaborator - orchestral composer Mark Horwood, who was living on the South Coast in a treehouse just outside Brighton.
Khan-Panni was once better known as Raissa, a solo artist that revealed a jumble of influences; a mix of Chinese, Indian, Mexican and Englishness. She was raised in the South London district of Tulse Hill, immersed first as a child in classical music, and later discovered Ricki Lee Jones and Prince. Raissa learned oboe, taught herself to sing, spent her school-days busking in Leicester Square and later all over Europe, before heading back to these shores to study music at Bristol.
Her solo career began not long afterwards, and she enjoyed critical acclaim across the media spectrum, most notably with the album Believer and the single How Long Do I Get. Despite the acclaim Khan-Panni remembers it as a period of some uncertainty.
By 2001, the solo projects were winding down and she returned to work, waitressing fulltime in a Brixton restaurant. During this time she began writing lyrics documenting this period of her life keeping the faith that she would one day leave waiting tables to return to music, She was inspired by the enormity of sound in Rufus Wainwright’s work, and by the spacey-ness of the Flaming Lips.
In 2005, she received through the post a track written around her vocals, and Raissa found her new collaborator - orchestral composer Mark Horwood, who was living on the South Coast in a treehouse just outside Brighton.
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GazGod wrote:
[2] Mink Hollow Road is so beautiful.
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Wudustan wrote:
Definetly not something I'm usually into but I've found myself listening with more and more interest
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mk79 wrote:
Mink Hollow Road is so beautiful. Listening the hell out of it at the moment.
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rockarincita wrote:
When I saw them for the first time on tv I thought they sound as if Lily Allen sang with Arcade Fire
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Moestitia wrote:
Saw these guys on a TV show... Took me forever to find out who they were, but glad that I finally did! ♥
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fillupharper wrote:
Definitely one of the most original bands I've heard in a long time.
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ManicLoop wrote:
saw them at latitude and was impressed
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wandering_blue wrote:
MArch Of The Down <3
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BRipping wrote:
how about this for a change!? http://www.last.fm/music/The+Mummers/+images/44902725
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teddyrubmyskin wrote:
i love "tale to tell"....
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drug_deadstva wrote:
Banda fantástica. Muito potencial mesmo! [2]
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thewishka wrote:
WOW This is so fucking awesome!
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safetygooner wrote:
Just read the sad news aboutmark Hrwood. I never knew him but I grew up in Westergate and went to school there. What a sad loss, such a terrific talent. I hope the band can continue to perform and grow in his memory. there really is a terrific vibe from Sussex with The Mummers and Bat for Lashes as well; it is almost a developing genre with great influences and sounding better than - but like none of - their other contemporaries. I hope they can keep it up and encourage more musicians from the south coast to get inspired by the area and the diverse musical influences that have been largely ignored by guitar bands and synth pop acts
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society_scum wrote:
i was fall in love at their songs))))
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RabbitsFM wrote:
like it
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noisebus wrote:
Hreningfull!
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ShadyAdy wrote:
Only just today heard about Mark Horwood - that truly is tragic news, I'm shocked, saddened and dismayed to say the least. :(
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MarcelBM wrote:
Banda fantástica. Muito potencial mesmo!
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R3CURSION wrote:
The vocals remind me of Emiliana Torrini (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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tonzon wrote:
epic, to say the least.
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GazGod wrote about The Mummers in Favourites - 2011. December 2011
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mk79 wrote about The Mummers in Top 10 albums of 2011. December 2011
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