Mar Malade

Best served above average volume.

MAR MALADE are:
Alexander Hauer & Michèl M. Almeida

Mar Malade started as an escape from reality. A joyful experiment of two longtime friends fooling around with guitars, voices and percussion. Following whatever made them smile and feel warm, euphoric and a bit nostalgic. Creating a little world of sounds and songs they can travel and explore.
Writing and recording their music wherever they feel at home and find a place and time to escape from the daily:
At the coffee table, on a farm in the Black Forest or in an old children's room in the northern German nowhere, where they found all sorts of funny instruments - like “Bachflöten“ - they used to fool around with. Doing that, Mar Malade create songs which want nothing else than to take everyone on a little trip to dream away.

»All the instruments, all the sounds you hear on our records were played, recorded and produced by just the two of us. Even the background noise of a bar in the Intro of »Marmalade« was created by our two voices and a table full of glasses and bottles. Every laughter, every argument, every entering-the-room you hear in these 23 seconds is one of us, pretending to be part of a little crowd awaiting some music to be gently played.
Just for the brass, we always need a little help from our friend CATT. Paul Rundel played some wistful violins on »Balloon« and Antonio Lucaciu provided our very first saxophone solo on »Peaches«!«