Mimi secue
Austrian slowcore-band.
History
Mimi Secue started to Make Music in spring 1999. Crystallisation point of the early MusicAL work was the Cselley Mill � a long time placed point of culture and music in the east of Austria. Mimi Secue see themselves as a classically rock-orchestrated band with guitars, bass, drums and voice, extended by strings, vibraphone, glockenspiel and metallophone bound to the slowed down guitar music.
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 today. The album contained seven calm and rather introverted and reserved songs, which defined the band's future musical adjustments and aesthetic. In August 2001 the band returned to the Cselley Mill to record ten marvellous songs for the second self-titled long player. This second studio-album was published on the new founded and 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.
In February 2003 Mimi Secue retired themselves to the west Hungarian outback to record their third album »Forst« in self-direction, which was later on published by Karate Joe again. It took the band 12 months to record the material for 7 new songs, so that it was possible to start the postproduction in February 2004. 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 Hungaria 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 postproduction. 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 (N.Y.C.), Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, ModernistMozart (Vienna).
Discography
Albums
- 2000 - Amazonas - Pam Records
- 2002 - Mimi Secue - Karate Joe Records
- 2004 - Forst - Karate Joe Records
- 2005 - Naila - Karate Joe Records