Moop Mama

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Moop Mama
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Origin Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Genres
Years active2009 (2009)–present
Website www.moopmama.com

Moop Mama is a brass band based in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The ten-person group includes two percussionists and a rapper, and was founded in 2009. They describe their style as urban brass, mixing hip hop and the music of traditional marching bands. The band has played at festivals, for television and film, and at political events, with a focus on spontaneous concerts in public space. Beginning in 2011, the band has recorded albums, singles and videos.

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History

At the ZMF in Freiburg in 2016 Moop Mama (ZMF 2016) jm63240.jpg
At the ZMF in Freiburg in 2016
At Rocken am Brocken in 2015 Moop Mama Rocken am Brocken 2015 08.jpg
At Rocken am Brocken in 2015
At TFF Rudolstadt in 2012 Moop Mama TFF 02.JPG
At TFF Rudolstadt in 2012

Moop Mama was founded in 2009 at the initiative of the saxophonist Marcus Kesselbauer, as a group of seven brass players, two percussionists and a rapper. [1] Kesselbauer is also the band's composer and arranger. [2] Their first "public rehearsal" was at Munich's Englischer Garten in 2009. [1] They became recognized for many short unannounced concerts in public space (Guerilla-Konzerte), such as pedestrian areas and parks, using a megaphone to amplify the rapper's voice. Sometimes the concerts were regarded as unwanted noise ( Ruhestörung  [ de ]), causing conflicts with the police. [2]

The band appeared on television, such as Inas Nacht [3] and ttt – titel, thesen, temperamente  [ de ] in 2011, [4] and Checker Can  [ de ] in 2012. They have performed regularly for the local Vereinsheim Schwabing of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). For the film Vatertage – Opa über Nacht  [ de ], they supplied part of the film score and appeared as actors. [5]

The band performed at festivals such as in 2012 at the Fusion Festival in Lärz, the Splash! festival in Ferropolis of Gräfenhainichen, [6] the Open Air Gampel  [ de ] in Switzerland, the Taubertal Festival  [ de ] in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, [7] the Burg Herzberg Festival  [ de ] in Breitenbach am Herzberg, TFF Rudolstadt, Zelt-Musik-Festival in Freiburg, and the Elbjazz  [ de ] festival in Hamburg. They also played in the program of the 2012 Champions League final in Munich, and supporting Jan Delay at the Tollwood Festival. [8] They performed at the 2016 Highfield Festival  [ de ] in Großpösna, at the Mini-Rock-Festival  [ de ] in Horb the same year, and at the 2019 Southside in Neuhausen ob Eck. [9]

In September 2012, the band played on an invitation of Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki and Athens. In September 2018, the band played a spontaneous concert at the Hambach Forest to protest against its clearing by RWE. [10] On 21 June 2019, they performed as part of a large demonstration of Fridays for Future at the Aachen Tivoli for several thousand people. [11] The band played a 10th anniversary concert at the Tollwood in the Munich Musik-Arena on 18 July 2019, announced as playing "no finished beats, no samples, no electronic instruments" and "brute loud and secretly quiet". [12]

Discography

Albums

Singles

Videos

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