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Good vibrations This Autumn, Luxembourgish band Mutiny on the Bounty hit the road to celebrate the release of their latest album, Digital Tropics. We chatted to the guys about a musical journey that’s taken them from their hometown of Esch-sur-Alzette to Tokyo, and back. TEXT: PAULA HAMMOND | PHOTOS: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
It’s been a wild, wild, decade for the mathrock quartet, Mutiny on the Bounty. Formed in 2004, the band went through several incarnations before settling on their current lineup of Falcon (Sacha Schmitz), Pzey (Nicolas Przeor), Clem (Clement Delporte) and Tchiggy (Cedric Czaika). However, four critically acclaimed albums and an international following have not come easy. “We had all been in several bands before founding MotB,” says Pzey. “We actually
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met through mutual friends back in the early 2000s, which was a very interesting time in Luxembourg. If you wanted to see a band you liked, you just would organise it yourself as there were simply no venues doing underground stuff. Eventually Sacha and I decided to form MotB.”
Math rock Initially the guys didn’t expect to do much more than jam with like-minded friends, but that early lineup gave birth to their first
album, which was a co-release with Treasure Chest at the End of the Rainbow - another Luxembourg-based band. That was followed by Danger Mouth and Trials which cemented the band’s burgeoning reputation. “There used to be a big math-rock, post-punk hardcore scene in Luxembourg back when we first formed,” explains Pzey. “We had a lot of friends who were doing something similar and people used to call it the Luxemburgish Sound.”