Clara Moto_ New Single Out

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deer & fox & mimu

Posted 21 Feb 10

MIMU used to sing a lot when she was a child. “But always secretly, when I was alone, being terribly embarrassed when someone would hear me accidentally.” She met Clara in Graz back in 2003. A that time, Clara was making her first step into djiing, while Mimu was into visual performances. No surprise if Mimu has been responsible for all the artworks included in the “Polyamour” album. Little by little, the duo starts playing in front of friends, mainly for fun. “She was the ear-leader and I was the eye age.” She admits. Freshly broken-hearted two years ago, Mimu started voicing her feelings through “songs and poetries, recording choirs and spoken word bubbles” and learning how to play piano, accordion, violin or guitar. She wrote the lyrics of “Deer & Fox”, adapted it herself already with various instrumentations but never they could sound so good as with Clara`s own production inputs. With her deeply felt organ notes Clara Moto put a spell on Mimu`s chorus crystallizing their complicity for one of the most refreshing hit of 2010. Exclusive B-side for this digital mini-single, “Hall” goes straight for the dance-floor. Twirling clicks & cuts, robotic vocals and celestial waves, is all what it took to Clara to make a perfect stomp.  

Clara Moto´s new mini single is out 22nd February digitaly (except in France). 

iF3001_ Clara Moto_"Deer & Fox"

1-Deer & Fox feat. Mimu (edit)

2-Hall

iF1008(LP) - out soon

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are you ready for

Posted 15 Jan 10

Autumn 2007; InFiné releases Clara Moto’s “Glove Affair”, a firm-handed, delicious minimal house cut. One year later, and it’s with the release of “Silently”, a light and fluffy tune featuring a killer chorus that Clara, with the help of Mimu on vocals, reveals a strong penchant for pop. In 2010, the favorite of AGORIA, JAMES HOLDEN, BEN WATT, PETER KRUDER & CLAUDE von STROKE is "Polyamourous".

Claro Moto`s first LP "Polyamour" is due for March/April 2010

The first single "Deer & Fox featuring Mimu" on stream on the Homepage.

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introducing mimu

Posted 06 Dec 09

I know Clara because our ways crossed around 2003 in Graz. Small town, nice people. she was very into music, making her first steps with djing and i was very much into drawing and stuff, being student on a school for graphic design. As time went by we met more and more often on stage - she on the turning tables, me as a visualist. We got along very well, had a lot of fun, so we decided to make a "band", she just got herself some toys like the korg electribe and stuff and so we started doing first live acts. that has been very exciting to both of us. she was the ear-leader and I was the eye agent. At the audience just friends, so we were always assured the proper enthusiasm by the crowd ... All very romantic, so to say ...

I didn't do any music back then, because I was way too much into all the visual stuff (plus a big coward), although all the fancy tools were attracting my like the moth is caught by fire. i sang a lot when i was a little child, but always secretly, when i was alone, being terribly embarrassed when someone heard me accidentally. I used to repeat a melody again and again, afraid to lose it - once i got one that i liked, back then there was no possibility to preserve it, no way to record, no way to write down. Precious, unsteady, fragile treasures they were. And still are to me. Sounds are my obsession, melodies my jewels and words are my pearls.

I actually started to sing about 2 years ago. Freshly broken hearted, i started to articulate my feelings thru music and poetry. I just had the voice, I didn't play any instruments properly and so I started to record choirs and spoken word bubbles that expressed my notion of the world. I was totally intrigued by harmonics, combinations, rhythm and audio-montage. I started to dig in to studio and recording techniques, I started to play piano, accordion, violin, guitar and everything else that can be used to make sounds. I started to give concerts, sometimes with varying people, mostly solo with very minimalistic instrumentation and digitally processed field recordings i collected on various places.

Right now i am fascinated by electro-acoustic improvisation, by the technical aspects and the programming as well as by the wild and wide field of extended vocal techniques… by the mixture of traditional instruments and preparations with extremely sensitive live electronics.

I am very happy that the collaboration with my dear friend Clara came into being, I like her light and delicate approach to minimal techno, i like her musical sensitivity and and her intelligent humour that shines thru every little bit and byte…and i also have the impression that the friendship between us is totally audible in the tracks were i participated.






Mimu Merz is a Vienna based graphic designer, media artist, singer and songwriter.
Her works mostly have a visual and auditive component, small video pieces and drawings made by hand, digitally brought into movement.

The artist describes her vocals as: „wayward phrasings and introspective lyrics, sometimes mumbled, sometimes pointed out clearly, like a salty finger in the wound of ongoing life. Puns and structures. Patterns and norms. Lofty love and wicked war.“
(quote from ELEVATE)


Live Acts and Projects
Mimu has a few different manifestations.

„mimu at nite“ - »experimental folk«
(www.myspace.com/listentomimu), a solo performance with voice, accordeon and laptop.
The accordeon is played minimalistically, either rhythmically or droning - according to the certain song, the voice is layered over that solid ground in a very flexible way.
the vocals are very narrative, the stories are clothed in metaphoric constructions of a flowery language.
The laptop provides distinct atmospherical components such as field recordings of varying places (such as woods, cities)
or incidents (fighting dogs, car accidents), or samples of old movies, that correlate to the context.
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Zurückhaltend nachdenkliche Spinnereien rund um das fragile Innenleben einer mitteleuropäischen Durchschnittsentität, da, wo die Betonblumen blühen und die Sonne ihre Trabanten frisst, da, wo Kaiser und Hofnarr eigentlich derselbe sind. Geschichten voller Ironie, Hoffnung und Enttäuschung, voller Allegorien, süßlicher Verbohrtheit und auch etwas Botanik, Hauptrolle und Bösewicht zugleich ist die liebe Liebe, die hier in jeder ihrer Facetten zärtlich von dem Mädchen Mimu und ihren Verbündeten zu Grabe getragen wird.

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all (c) by mimu.

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