Micose and the Mau Mau's

First, picture a Fat Albert and the Junkyard Gang jam session being broadcast from a television spewing white noise. Now process that thought through a symphony of malfunctioning tone generators, a less unhinged Caroliner, and all your vintage Os Mutantes and Caetano Veloso records and you might end up somewhere in the neighborhood of what San Francisco-based (by way of Brazil and South Korea) Miguel Serra’s Micose And The Mau Mau’s project is all about.

Micose (pronounced Mee-Coh-Zeh) and the Mau Mau's is an eclectic musical concoction through which Serra is allowed to exist in a selfish universe constructed from the remnants of 6-string banjo, cavaquinho (4-string Brazilian samba instrument), samplers, guitar and bass (sometimes heavily processed), effects pedals, junk percussion (pans, metal parts, bottles, etc), more percussion (including more samba stuff as well as tribal Korean drums), field recordings, treated voice, tape recorders, etc.

“Calaberezza” is what I’d imagine insanity in the tropics of the Amazon might sound like: dense, colorful, and as if the birds, insects, and wildlife are laughing at you as you slowly lose your mind. It’s deranged, unsettling...and completely irresistible.

According to the Cococonk site (Micose's label), all the out-of-print early recordings are going to be re-released at some point in the near future by Seattle-based Debacle Records with some help from Enterruption. All the tracks from the first Micose CD-R will be on it plus a few outtakes.

Official Website
Myspace Page

Mp3s:

Calabarezza (from the self-titled CD-R)
Line In Track 01 (from the self-titled CD-R)
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