A Brooklyn, NY-based three piece: vintage keyboards, drums, and female voice. They blend singer-songwriter psychedelia with jazzy grit. Asses will shake as life-affieming mantras are repeated.

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Details:
THE MUMBLES are a Brooklyn, NY-based three piece: vintage keyboards, drums, and female voice. They blend singer-songwriter psychedelia with jazzy grit. Asses will shake as life-affirming mantras are repeated.

Happy Accident:
THE MUMBLES are a tiny band with a mighty sound, but it wasn't always that way. Keyboardist/singer Keith Burnstein and drummer Ethan Shorter met while playing in the rhythm section of a 14 piece live hip-hop orchestra. Onstage, the group was a powder-keg of energy and ethos; offstage, schedules and egos often clashed.
One fateful night, Keith and Ethan were the only members of their band to show up on time for a gig, and the club's manager urged the boys to play the set as a duo. The music they created was an exercise in precision, always teetering on the edge of collapse, but never caving. In their desperation, Shorter and Burnstein tapped into something both liberating and beautiful-- a happy accident, if you will.
After agreeing that less is, in fact, more, they formed the Mumbles, subsequently adding the lovely Meredith Claire on vocals and guitar. The trio delighted in the discovery of a new, distilled sound: jazzy, raucous, and catchy as hell--- in other words, The Mumbles.

Keith Burnstein (keyboards/vocals)
Singer/songwriter Keith Burnstein's interest in keyboards began at age 5, when he decided that the low notes on his family's upright piano sounded "like Frankenstein". He continues in that tradition today on Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and melodica.

Ethan Shorter (drums) An accomplished drummer (and avid Red-Sox fan), Ethan is the cement, gloss, and cherry on top that'll send your senses into blissful overload. He is a member of NYC's prestigious Drummer's Collective.


Meredith Claire (vocals/guitar) Mer is a small sprout with deep roots. Her guitar playing and song-writing hearken back to Odetta, Big Mama Thorton, and Eva Cassidy. She is the newest Mumble and a most welcomed addition.



www.myspace.com/brooklynmumbles
www.sonicbids.com/keithburnstein