MOKOTRON - THE UNITED TRIBES OF BASS

Late Junction 🔊 (BBC Radio 3) - 2

laneway 2026

Wubadubdub

Molly Bag Party Pack🍬 - 2

Projector

Disco

First World Warrior

Rain Dance

Fantasies / Survival

From The Haar's second album Where Old Ghosts Meet. “We let our imaginations run free with these old favourites" say the band.

The result is breathtaking beautiful, audaciously ambitious in its scope and, most importantly, a living document that proves the vitality of these ‘old favourites’.

Wild Rover, is a case in point: not for The Haar the bonhomie of The Dubliner, this is an eerie and sinister interpretation that reveals (with the addition of a final verse by Summerhayes) the jealousy, envy and covetousness that their wild rover is met with upon his return. Molly sang a few experimental bars in a minor key, Cormac added a few quietly ominous strikes and the band fell in love with the feel. Adam and Murray found a dark sound, imbued with hints of Arabic and klezmer music. Deciding that Molly would start alone, they simply hit record and let it flow.

This is just one example of several where the band, who feature not one but two FATEA Instrumentalists of the Year Award winners, take a familiar tune and turn into something fresh that mysteriously feels as if you have known it forever.

This is a product of free-thinking and intuitive musicians at the very height of their powers. It is at times whisper quiet - Molly Donnery’s voice balancing delicately upon her breath, the slight rasp of reeds from Murray Grainger’s accordion, the brush of Cormac Byrne’s beater upon bohdrán skin, the scrape of rosin and horse hair on Adam Summerhayes’s strings -  and there are moments of drama and high tension; you can sense the high-wire act thrill of their ‘in-the-moment’ composition in every held note and shift in dynamic.

The concept might seem oxymoronic, but  if you’re looking for the cutting edge of traditional music, it is here.

WILD ROVER

Wild Rover was first referenced in Ireland in the 16th C, but was widely shared, particularly amongst North Atlantic fishing port communities. We revel in the warmth of the melody and its feel of endless lost possibilities, with an ecstasy of yearning at the mention of the handsome rover… perhaps a foreshadowing of the Wild Rover to follow. Our tale of the Wild Rover serves as a potent lesson to our extravagantly consuming society in the wake of current global environmental destruction. We meet the Wild Rover as he reaches a critical time, faced with the opportunity to turn his back on excessive consumption and face up to his past before he loses everything. Vowing to change, and knowing he must, the lure of excess proves too strong a lust.  But continuing profligacy and extravagance come at a cost. He succumbs once again when so close to change, and the prodigal son pays the ultimate price for his ways. An opportunity has been missed, never to return… never no more."

For more information, interviews and hi res photos contact katie@fromthewhitehouse.com  07832 200980  

Adam Summerhayes - fiddle Murray Grainger - accordion and vibrandoneon  Cormac Byrne - bodhrán Molly Donnery - vocal 
Trad arr. Byrne, Donnery, Grainger, Summerhayes (last verse lyrics of Wild Rover - Adam Summerhayes) 

Self published Under The Eaves Records (UTE006) | Recorded at Under The Eaves Studios, Rosedale

Produced and mixed by Murray Grainger |Additonal production by Cormac Byrne and Adam Summerhayes | Enginered by Murray Grainger | Mastered by Jon Astley  Artwork ’Where Old Ghosts Meet’ by Adam Summerhayes

04 - The Haar - Wild Rover

A GIRL THAT SOLD DRUGS

PARADISE

LOUIE

Hold My Head

Aeolian Mixtape

Dasos

Put my own twist on Fisher & Aatig's ''Take It Off''

Click on ''Free Download'' for the Extended Version

Free Download

FISHER & Aatig - Take It Off (Dave Summer Techno Rework)

Olive Green

Jammin

Arrayed On The Battlefield

Sound Sculptures, Dynamical Systems, Natural Environments

Natural Environments No. 1 (feat. The House of Bedlam & Chihiro Ono)

Brewster-Cruza

From the album The United Tribes of Bass, available for purchase on Bandcamp:
mokotron.bandcamp.com/album/the-unit…tribes-of-bass

Tatau o te Po (Hasji Remix)

GUIDING STAR (Netana Remix)

Hīreretia Rā (Akcept Remix)

DECOLONIZE EXISTENCE (Big Fat Raro Remix)

Tawhito (Caru Remix)

Cat#: BLACKLIST002

LTD sleeve version available on the 14th of October at 7pm GMT

Mastered by Beau at Ten Eight Seven, Distributed worldwide by Unearthed Sounds.

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LAS - Jungle Kitchen // Pocosink // Pocosink - Commodo Remix (Now Available To Pre Order)

Ago - So Mi Seh // That's What I Was Talking About Back In '96.

Forthcoming on both 10" vinyl and digital.

Ago - https://soundcloud.com/agonuma
Numa Crew - https://soundcloud.com/numa-crew

Mastered by Beau at Ten Eight Seven Mastering. Distributed world wide via Unearthed Sounds.

Support from: V.I.V.E.K, Commodo, LAS, Youngsta, J Kenzo, Mikael, Boofy, Karma.

So Mi Seh

Ago -  So Mi Seh // That's What I Was Talking About Back In '96 (Out Now)

IMRV019 - Ago (Numa Crew)
https://soundcloud.com/agonuma
https://www.facebook.com/numacrew/

a. Why Won't You
b. Flashin'
c. Zero Shift

Forthcoming IMRV019 on both 12", 180 gram vinyl and Digital. Pre sales will be available 07/06/17 at 7pm GMT from all good retailers.

Mastered by Beau at Ten Eight Seven Mastering, Distributed worldwide by Unearthed Sounds & Railbird Digital, manufactured via Well Tempered.

Out to Ago and the Numas.

Ago - Why Won't You // Flashin' // Zero Shift (Out Now)

Hijak - Dally - DEEP MEDi MUSIK (MEDI02)
2006

Hijak - Dally - DEEP MEDi MUSIK

Ascension

Rollin' Dub / King of Kings

Rollin' Dub

DARK MĀORI BASS STRAIGHT OUTTA TĀMAKI MAKAURAU. NGĀTI HINE - NGĀPUHI - WESTCYDE 835. DAT ANAMATA TAWHITO SHIT 4 YOUR F***KN NAN DEM.

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