G-Man Artist of the Week : The Mummers

The Artist of the week posts never really got started so I am going to change it to more of an “Artist of the Forthnight” post.

The honour this week/forthnight goes to the colourful and theatrical The Mummers.

The Mummers is, essentially, Raissa Khan-Panni. Originally recording as solo artist Raissa, Khan-Panni herself admits that she was still only finding her voice during this period. It was then when she met Mark Horwood that the jigsaw pieces seemed to fit together more naturally : “after waiting so many years I knew this was the person I wanted to work with.”

Two years of recording finally resulted in the release of Tale To Tell a lavishly orchestrated album containing respectful nods towards Rufus Wainwright and Joanna Newsom with the onus on melody and the marvellous.

It all comes together quite beautifully live too…

As I write their myspace has seven tracks uploaded so this is a nice place to start.