Momus

Momus was the alias of Nick Currie, a Scottish-born vocalist, songwriter, and provocateur whose music careened from acoustic ballads to electro-pop to acidity house and again. Blessed in 1960, Currie spent period surviving in Greece and Canada before time for Scotland to wait school; in 1981, he fell out of college to create the Content Family, a music group additionally comprising three prior people of Josef K. After putting your signature on towards the 4AD label, the group documented only 1 LP, 1982’s THE PERSON on Your Road, just before disbanding. After time for (and graduating from) college or university, Currie shifted to London in 1984. He cut a cope with un Information and released Circus Maximus in 1986, the very first offering released beneath the Momus name (selected honoring a Greek god banished from Support Olympus for daring to criticize the knowledge of Zeus). The recording spotlighted Currie’s wealthy baritone and desire for styles of psychosexuality and social crises, repeating motifs throughout his intensive catalog of function. A proceed to Alan McGee’s Creation label preceded the discharge of 1987’s melancholy The Poison Partner, accompanied by 1988’s homoerotic Sensitive Pervert. A lot more honestly sexual was another year’s Don’t Prevent the Night, a series discovering taboo topics including incest and necrophilia. With 1991’s Hippopotamomus — focused on the past due Serge Gainsbourg — Momus arrived under assault; the recording, dubbed “an archive about sex for kids,” drew open fire from feminists and a lawsuit from Michelin U.K., which objected to some lyrical mention of their mascot, the Michelin Guy. (The match was consequently settled from court, and everything remaining copies from the recording were ruined.) Undeterred, Momus came back in 1992 with a set of new information, The Ultraconformist as well as the ambient-styled Voyager, influenced by the task of Yukio Mishima. After composing the 1993 recording Shyness for Japanese performer nOrikO (who used her stage name Poison Sweetheart in tribute to Momus) and liberating Timelord (his last work with Creation), Currie produced tabloid headlines for his 1994 relationship to 17-year-old Shazna Nessa, the girl of the Bangladesh-born restauranteur. Currie and Nessa 1st fulfilled when she was simply 14; after her parents discovered of the partnership, she was repaid to Bangladesh to enter an arranged relationship, but escaped to come back to London to marry Currie, forcing the few to visit underground for dread that Nessa’s family members would kidnap her. Currie, surviving in exile in Paris, eventually agreed upon to the Cherry Crimson label and resurfaced in 1995 using the School of thought of Momus, an eclectic established veering from reggae to blues to techno that highlighted “The Sadness of Issues,” an indie strike documented with Ken Morioka of japan pop music group Soft Ballet. Slender Sherbet, a assortment of re-recordings of materials from the Sensitive Pervert era, adopted later in the entire year as Momus abruptly found achievement in Japan composing and creating for pop songstress Kahimi Karie, with whom he notched a string of five consecutive Best Five strikes. 20 Vodka Jellies, a assortment of demos performed by Momus and designed for Karie, made an appearance in 1996, and was the to begin his records released within the U.S. Furthermore to composing and producing materials for Nessa’s music group Milky as well as the CD-R journal Blender, Currie curved out the entire year by composing, producing, and encoding the CD-R collection This Must Prevent. He issued TABLE TENNIS in 1997, coming back a year later on with THE TINY Crimson Songbook. Released in 1999, Celebrities Forever was probably Momus’ most questionable and provocative creative statement however — mounted to greatly help defray substantial legal costs facing Currie’s U.S. label Le Grand Magistery, each of its tracks was commissioned for $1000 apiece by different customers, from Japanese pop mastermind Cornelius towards the personnel at NEW YORK publicity company Girlie Actions, and written towards the customers’ specs. Folktronic adopted in early 2001, and 2 yrs later on, Momus debuted by himself American Patchwork label with Oskar Rugby Champion. Analog released the two-disc Forbidden Software program Timemachine: Greatest of the Creation Years, 1987-1993 compilation in 2003, accompanied by Otto Spooky and Ocky Dairy in 2005 and 2006. In 2008, Currie teamed up with Glaswegian maker Joe Howe for the recording JOEMUS, released around the Analog Baroque imprint. Momus released the YouTube-inspired recording Hypnoprism this year 2010. Thunderclown, a cooperation with John Henriksson, found its way to 2011, accompanied by Bibliotek and Sunbutler in 2012. The entire year 2013 saw the discharge of Bambi, along with the 1st installment of MOMUSMCCLYMONT, a cooperation with ex-Orange Juice member David McClymont. MOMUSMCCLYMONT II decreased in 2014, adopted in 2015 by Turpsycore and Glyptothek.