MAMA ROSIN

 Mama Rosin appeared on BBC TV Later With Jools Holland in Sept 2010. Watch their Later appearance here.

 

 

 

MAMA ROSIN
‘Black Robert’
(Gutfeeling Records / distributed by Cargo UK)

 3^rd album released in the UK in January 2011

 

 

 

What they said about ’Black Robert’?

‘What’s on offer is strangely beguiling’  

Acoustic

 ‘ A winning blast of Acadiana and rock verve’ 

The Observer

‘Another timeless and rambunctiously alive recording’ 

Independent On Sunday

‘one of the wildest, most post-authentic Cajun/Zydeco bands on the planet’  

fRoots

‘ A roughhouse trio with a punk attitude and energy to burn…these boys mean business’

Q***

‘ A garage-style, punk-inspired Cajun band…raw, steamy and intense’

Evening Standard****

‘ Some Like It Hot ! Mama Rosin are reinvigorating Cajun music – from a farm near Geneva’

Guardian (feature)

‘This is music that sounds like it has been seared raw…A belter of an album ’

 The Independent Guide  (Album of the Week)

‘Mama Rosin not only serve up spicy portions of traditional sounds but can also deliver a healthy line in bluesware and rock with considerable ferocity’

Mojo***

‘It features, too, the chilling sound of a chain – the kind that hobbled prisoners and slaves. Mama Rosin are aware that it isn’t simply good time music’ Songlines****

‘This trio have a passion for old-time tunes, play with the gritty, greased-up energy and denim-clad looks of a garage rock band…

really worth checking out’  

Metro

‘What’s not to like about this Swiss trio with an unquenchable love of the most obscure American roots music….and also clearly influenced by the likes of The Clash and the Velvet Underground?’

Artdesk.com

 

 

 

 

MAMA ROSIN
‘Brule Lentement’
(Voodoo Rhythm / distributed by Cargo UK)

2^nd  album  – released in the UK March 2010

 

 

 

 

 What they said about ‘Brule Lentement’ ?

‘Zydepunk par excellence!’-

****/5    R2

‘An extraordinary rebel-zydeco manifesto.‘ 

Netrhythms.com

‘One of the wildest, most post-authentic Cajun/Zydeco bands on the planet!’

fRoots

‘Loose, wild, uninhibited recording … this is very much in the moment … Zydeco meets wild’

Bob Harris  BBCR2

‘It is one of the most extraordinary records I have heard in, I think, probably a good year or two.’ 

Tom Robinson BBC6 Music

‘Mama Rosin have the velocity, brevity and jokiness of punk….they are hot – and witty, too’

*****/5  Songlines  (Top Of The World album)

‘A thrillingly souped-up racket with the standard Cajun weaponry of guitar, banjo, melodeon and rub board.’

*****/5   Independent On Sunday

‘Mama Rosin weave into their sound everything from blues to calypso before covering it with a layer of dirty fuzzy rock’n'roll garage band grease.’ - *******/10   Americana-uk.com

‘This exceptional trio may hark back to the source and whilst initially playing with what you can take for a modern, punk-bristle, they’re true to the roots of this music.’

*****/5   Maverick

 

MAMA ROSIN
‘Tu As Perdu Ton Chemin’
(Voodoo Rhythm Records) 

 1^st  album /  not released in the UK