This track is the 11th and last movement of the upcoming theatrical album dubbed "A Place Glowing a Brilliant Red" about a future human society on Mars.

Storyboard of this tune is as follows:
A Martian ship in the future is exploring Earth (these Martians actually descend from Earthlings but are unaware of their ancestors) . As they come close to Earth with their spaceship they send data and other messages back to Mars. 

Soon they realise Earth's orbit is full of artificial garbage and they are hit by one of the metal objects stuck in a practically infinite orbit. They fall and burn up in Earth's atmosphere. They say their last goodbye to Mars whilst realising this is actually where they come from, therefore they are ashes and dust.

For those interested, a strong reference for the album is Jared Diamond's book Collapse and Robert Zubrin's dreamy idea of a Terraformed Mars.

The soloists are Andrew Linham on Clarinet and Sam Warner on Trumpet.

Mimika MME is a multicultural London based modern jazz orchestra. It has been described as a mixture of Sun Ra, Balkan music, theatre, Duke Ellington and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Their lead vocal has been dubbed the "Croatian Flora Purim" and one of the reviews called their musical style "Balkan Space Jazz".

Mimika played on the London Jazz Festival 2012, the Olympic Festivals, and regularly gigs on London's underground and overground scenes.

Maja Rivic - vocals
Andy Hall - trumpet
Sam Warner - trumpet
Patrick Kenny - trombone
Andrew Linham - clarinet
Daniel Woodfield - soprano and alto saxophones and clarinet
David Turay - soprano and alto saxophones
Rob Milne - tenor saxophone and bass clarinet
Marin Galan - tenor saxophone
Leon Bovell - baritone saxophone 
Theon Cross - tuba
Rohit Nijhawan - guitar
Leon Rosten - piano
Andres Castellanos - bass
Troels Lund Sorensen - drums
Shama Rahman - narration

Music, lyrics, narrative and concept by Mak Murtic

Special thanks to the awesome recording and mixing crew Gabor Halasz and Martin Merenyi!
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The tune was recorded in various studios and bedrooms in London, UK.

Mimika - The Earthlings (From A Place Glowing A Brilliant Red)

This track is the 4th movement of the upcoming theatrical album dubbed "A Place Glowing a Brilliant Red" about a future human society on Mars.

Storyboard of this tune is as follows:

A human colony on Mars, comparable to that of North America in the 17th Century, goes through a set of economic problems that lead to the shut-down of trading routes with Earth. This in turn leads to the collapse of the society itself that is fully reliant on trade.

However, Mars is at this point an Earthlike terraformed planet and will remain so for the foreseeable future, therefore life does survive, people do too, but how does the society restructure itself?

For those interested, a strong reference for the album is Jared Diamond's book Collapse and Robert Zubrin's dreamy idea of a Terraformed Mars.

The soloists are Patrick Kenny on the trombone and Rob Milne on bass clarinet.

Mimika MME is a multicultural London based modern jazz orchestra. It has been described as a mixture of Sun Ra, Balkan music, theatre, Duke Ellington and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Their lead vocal has been dubbed the "Croatian Flora Purim" and one of the reviews called their musical style "Balkan Space Jazz".

Mimika played on the London Jazz Festival 2012, the Olympic Festivals, and regularly gigs on London's underground and overground scenes.

Maja Rivic - vocals
Andy Hall - trumpet
Sam Warner - trumpet
Patrick Kenny - trombone
Andrew Linham - clarinet
Daniel Woodfield - soprano and alto saxophones and clarinet
David Turay - soprano and alto saxophones
Rob Milne - tenor saxophone and bass clarinet
Marin Galan - tenor saxophone
Leon Bovell - baritone saxophone 
Theon Cross - tuba
Rohit Nijhawan - guitar
Leon Rosten - piano
Andres Castellanos - bass
Troels Lund Sorensen - drums
Shama Rahman - narration

Music, lyrics, narrative and concept by Mak Murtic

Special thanks to the awesome recording and mixing crew Gabor Halasz and Martin Merenyi!
www.martinmerenyi.com/

FInd Mimika:
www.makmurticensemble.com
www.facebook.com/makmurticensemble
www.youtube.com/makkreol

The tune was recorded in various studios and bedrooms in London, UK.

MIMIKA - A Place Glowing A Brilliant Red

As part of the Paddock Studio Session, Mimika was featured with their new tune "Enter the Yadhe" from a broad project "Divinities of the Earth and the Waters" about forgotten ideas behind living rituals.

Yadhe is an albino undead spirit of undefined gendre that captures the souls of young men and controls them ! It can only be stopped if exposed to sunshine.

Mimika - Enter the Yadhe

Mimika's tune "Fractal Forests" recorded in Paddock Studio in October 2014. This is a trip of digging deep into empty space.
Feel free to download.

Maja Rivic vocals
Andrew Linham clarinet
Phil Meadows alto sax
Rich Muscat alto sax
John Macnaughton tenor sax
Nubya Garcia tenor sax
Seb Silas baritone sax
Harrison Cole trumpet
Tim Wearden trumpet
Rosie Turton trombone
Hannah Dilkes trombone
Chris Barrett tuba
Tile Gichigi Lipere live electronics
Leon Rosten keyboards
Jamie Benzies electric bass
Paul Love percussion
Oberon King drums
Mak Murtic MD, lyrics and music

Producer Paul Love
Assistant Engineer Brandon Augustus

Mimika - Fractal Forests

Preview of the tune "Here is Everywhere" from the recently released collaboration album between Mak Murtic (composer) and the Croatian Radio Television Jazz Orchestra. 

The whole album was released on World Local Records in June 2015. The album is available online (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thecroatianradiotelevisi)
or ordered from www.makmurticensemble.com on CD.

Solos by Joe Kaplowitz (p) and Andreas Marinello (alto sax)

MAK MURTIC & CROATIAN RADIO TELEVISION JAZZ ORCHESTRA - HERE IS EVERYWHERE PREVIEW

Andy Hall's tribute to our loved band member David Turay who sadly passed away over a year ago.

Piano solo by Leon Rosten, saxophone solo by John Macnaughton.

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vocals - Maja Rivic
woodwinds - Andrew Linham, Guido Spannochi, John Macnaughton, Nubya Garcia, Rob Milne, Seb Silas
brass - Andy Hall (composition), Sam Warner, Rosie Turton, Hannah Dilkes, Tom Kelly
rhythm section - Jamie Benzies, Leon Rosten, Oberon King, Paul Love
live electronics - Tile Gichigi Lipere
MD - Mak Murtic


Mimika performs Andy Hall's Sun In The Night

This piece follows a story of twin snakes, from their birth in a mythical well to their eternal conflict leading to their death as the well dries up.

This is based on the supposedly Iliran myth of creation and the fate of the world and was written for the 52nd Opatija Festival in Croatia for the Septet Ad Libitum of the Zagreb Symphony. The reason the Iliran myth was chosen is precisely because this area was inhabited by a subgroup of Ilirians called Liburnians and the area was called Liburnia. 

The question in the piece is actually about the fluidity of the concept of national identity but also of the broader environmental factors and human obsessive control of natural resources and other humans.


Septet Ad Libitum - Liburnia (by Mak Murtic)

Forgiveness Day is the closing composition from the upcoming concept album "Divinities of the Earth and the Waters" which deals with the human condition, love, loss, myths and struggle. The story is set in the preindustrial Balkans and in the fashion of the late Sergei Parajanov follows a story of one individual both through his reality and through his imagined perception, from young adulthood to his own funeral.

Vocals - Maja Rivic
Vocals - Sylvia Schmidt
Clarinet and clarinet solo - Andrew Linham
Bass Clarinet - Rob Milne
Soprano Saxophone - Andrew Liddell
Alto Saxophone - John Macnaughton
Tenor Saxophone - Daniel Woodfield
Baritone Saxophone and Baritone Saxophone solo - Seb Silas
Trumpet and Flugelhorn - James Davison
Trumpet and Flugelhorn - Lily Carassick
Trombone and Trombone solo - Chris Saunders
Trombone - Hannah Dilkes
Tuba - Thomas Kelly
Piano - Leon Rosten
El. Bass - Jamie Benzies
Percussion - Tom Atherton
Drums - Harry Pope
Live electronics - Tile Gichigi Lipere

Composition, Lyrics, Concept, Musical Director, Producer - Mak Murtic

Engineers and Producers - Martin Merenyi and Gabor Halasz

Recorded at Fish Factory Studios, London, UK.

Mimika Orchestra - Forgiveness Day

Song of Sorrow is a composition from the upcoming concept album "Divinities of the Earth and the Waters" which deals with the human condition, love, loss, myths and struggle. The story is set in the preindustrial Balkans and in the fashion of the late Sergei Parajanov follows a story of one individual both through his reality and through his imagined perception, from young adulthood to his own funeral.

Vocals - Maja Rivic
Vocals - Anabela Baric
Clarinet - Jason Alder
Bass Clarinet - Rob Milne
Soprano Saxophone - Andrew Liddell
Alto Saxophone and Alto solo - John Macnaughton
Tenor Saxophone - Daniel Woodfield
Baritone Saxophone - Andrew Linham
Trumpet and Flugelhorn - Tim Wearden
Trumpet and Flugelhorn - Andy Hall
Trombone - Owen Dawson
Trombone - Hannah Dilkes
Tuba - Benjamin Kelly
Piano - Leon Rosten
El. Bass - Jamie Benzies
Percussion - Tom Atherton
Drums - Harry Pope
Live electronics - Tile Gichigi Lipere, Hrvoje Nikšić
Lyra - Thodoris Ziarkas
Tambura - Filip Novosel
Flute -  Leo Beslać

Composition, Lyrics, Concept, Musical Director, Producer - Mak Murtic

Engineers and Producers - Martin Merenyi and Gabor Halasz, Hrvoje Nikšić

Recorded at Fish Factory Studios, London, UK.
Mixed and Mastered by Hrvoje Nikšić at Kramasonik studio, Zagreb, Croatia.

Mimika Orchestra - Song Of Sorrow (feat. Thodoris Ziarkas on Lyra)

Mimika Mak Murtic Ensemble

- is a small orchestra, currently climbing up the London music cliffs. It performs music about the rise of agriculture and exploration of Mars, with influences from different forms of jazz, Balkan music, East Asian music, Hip Hop and lately Prog and Metal. It has been described as Hypnotic Brass Ensemble meets Duke Ellington and Balkan music and Time Out has named the style Balkan Space Jazz. 

The music captures the audiences with a set of dreamy , impressionist themes contradicted with strong beats and scenographic changes.

From Scratch to Structure Suite - A suite centred around the themes of early human migrations and the development of agriculture. This us Movement II.

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MIMIKA MME - From Scratch to Structure - Movement II

New Croatian band Truth ≠ Tribe, made up of the new post genre Zagreb scene.

Mak Murtić - tenor saxophone
Luka Čapeta - el.guitar
Jurica Rukljić - tuba w electronics
Nenad Kovačić - percussion

Truth ≠ Tribe / Правда ≠ Племя - Bijesna - Live at Vinyl

An introspective look into the society of consumers and where the thin line between an art gallery and a shopping centre lies. This was performed in the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Zagreb, which lies just across the road from the Avenue Mall shopping centre. The composition uses cues, written material and segments, various spaces and prerecorded sounds and conversations (taken in shopping centres).

Nicolas Sinković - percussion, electronics
Filip Merčep - percussion, electronics, video
Mak Murtić - composition

Special thanks to Duga Bavoljak, Minja Maretić Murtić and Jiao Guo who all talked in the prerecorded material.

MAK MURTIĆ - CONVERSATIONS IN A SHOPPING MALL - SINKOVIĆ MERČEP DUO - MBZ 2019.

Anybody could be beneath the cloth. 

This tune "Daleka" ("Far Away") is a reflection on contemporary society's view of migrants and the depersonalisation some people have to suffer (either voluntarily or forced) when confronted with a new environment.

Arrangement and performance - Truth ≠ Tribe
 - Mak Murtić - saxophone
 - Luka Čapeta - el.guitar
 - Jurica Rukljić - el. tuba
 - Nenad Kovačić - percussion

Music - Mak Murtić

Truth ≠ Tribe - Daleka

Mak Murtic is a London and Zagreb based saxophonist, multiinstrumentalist and composer. His main projects are Mimika Orchestra and Truth ≠ Tribe. He also plays in bands Antenat, Maja Rivic Septet and occasionally guests in various other groups. He is a freelance composer and arranger writing for various ensembles, most frequently for the Croatian Radio Television Big Band but also for films and theatres.

Mimika is a London and Zagreb based alternative world concept jazz ensemble.

Truth ≠ Tribe is a Zagreb based alternative world rock jazz quartet.

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