About M'Lumbo

M'lumbo was founded in the mid-80's by Robert "M'botto" Ray and "Zombie"Ron Boggs as an escape from commercial music (they were then in a "rock" band managed by Mick Jagger's manager that included future Helmet leader Page Hamilton).
To their surprise, early handmade cassettes began selling briskly at local record stores leading to radioplay on over 100 U.S. stations and many rave reviews.

They have been featured on over 100 public and college radio stations (including syndicated shows featuring their music),have done commercials, films and work for MTV and MTV 2 and drawn countless enraptured reviews, received an ocean of comparisons to Miles Davis, Sun Ra and the Orb and praise from such disparate avatars as
Simpsons' creator Matt Groening, Brian Eno, Carly Simon, dj's Olive and Spooky,Neil Young and Tom Waits, and have influenced some bands along the way (Sex Mob,Either/Orchestra).
From their origins as a'pomo to a fault, brilliantly silly seven-piece jazz/funk/afropop improvisarama' (Richard Gehr,Village Voice), they have metamorphisized into,first a smaller unit that 'delivers upon the wasted promise of ambient music'(Alternative Press) and finally into the current line-up of six extraordinary musicians, four innovative and fast-rising filmmakers and one live soundman whose 'audiovisual spectacle zeroes in on the fever dream elements of exotica' (Douglas Wolk,Village Voice).

They have given countless orgiastic and enthralling performances at both the old and new Knitting Factory and other N.Y.C. venues with opening acts such as Neotropic, Sean Lennon, Badawi, Mantronix, virtual reality inventor Jaron Lanier, Jojo Meyer's Nerve, dj Muttamasik and Duncan Sheik with constant recommendations of their shows by Time Out New York and the Village Voice.
Their recently completed film ' System Noise ' (with wall-to-wall music and guest appearances by Gary Lucas, Badawi and Neotropic) has won 'best experimental feature' at the New York International film festival, toured as a Slamdance feature and secured European distribution. Following completion of this film in late 1999 M'lumbo began the recording of 'The Nine Billion Names Of God', an album of eight mind-boggling originals that combine accessibility with transportive transcendence that'will transport you to M'lumbo's private twilight zone'(Boston Herald) continuing and greatly extending

M'lumbo's'boho splendour! forget the Lounge Lizard's fake jazz,this is fuck-jazz; highly accomplished and highly irreverent at once'Psychotronic'skit-skatting through the musical spectrum in a hyperactive-inspired burst of creativity and rhythm'-B-Side' imagine a collision between Tackhead,Eno-era Talking Hea,Bill Laswell,70's Miles Davis...mere words cannot do justice to convey the musical construction that you are going to hear' (Dead Earnest)

M'lumbo "The Nine Billion Names Of God"
"M'Lumbo offers up the latest chapter of their luminous journey through cinema, dreams, electronica, accoustica, humour, terror, sprituality, jazz, world, acid rock, drum'n'bass, classical and forms unknown,with each moment stamped , ineluctably and seamlessly by M'lumbo's wild post-everything originality."

M'lumbo has spent the last five years cultivating a new style born from the underground "d8E' parties of the early 21st century. In the wake of increased police pressure and the completion of the scene's esoteric mission, Mlumbo has emerged to bring it's psychedelic message to a mainstream audience.

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