Mugison - Return Of The Mugician

Mugison makes music that ranges from gentle laptop pop to heavy, flamboyant rock. He started recording songs on his laptop in 2001 and in 2003 released the experimental glitch-pop album "Lonely Mountain", which was released on Matthew Herbert's Accidental label.

That same year Mugison and his father (Papamugs) founded the Aldrei fór ég suður (AFS) festival, and Mugison recorded the soundtrack to Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's 2004 film ”Niceland” in a church in his hometown, Ísafjörður.
In 2005 he released "Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?", which won five Icelandic Music Awards that year (including Album of the Year and Song of the Year for "Murr Murr"). For his next album, "Mugiboogie", Mugison traded the whimsical electronics for more bandmembers and a bluesy rock & roll sound.
As the 7th installment of AFS looms on the horizon, we catch up with the Mugi Master to talk about the festival, self-made instruments and a new solo album…
Where are you right now and what did you do today?
I just arrived in Toronto today, and

sir´s and ladies.

Im now in the us doing this thing with iceland naturally, we´r promoting icelandic food with chef Thorarinn from the Orange restaurant in Iceland and I´ve also got some gig´s lined up in in Boston and Toronto over the next 10 days. there is more info about it here...

am slowly starting to work on my next album using my instrument.......

hello everybody..

hope the holidays was good old fun for your all.  I had lot´s of good time:)

i did few gig´s in Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany last December, just me and my guitar, wanted to thank everyone who came to the shows. Was great traveling in trains, especially when it stared to snow and all schedules got fucked up. Loved it. I had 80 Kg with me, lost 5 Kg and gained 10Kg in pure muscle.

I´m back on the road in February, this time I´ll play more on my new instrument .. and soon I´ll post some photos of it... been fixing it and practicing, cant wait to show you the monster.

wish you the best

mugison