''Mugiboogie'' is an album by

Mugison Örn Elías Guðmundsson, known professionally as Mugison (born 4 September 1976), is an Icelandic musician. Early life In 1977, Guðmundsson and his family moved from Reykjavík to Ísafjörður. In 1982, his family moved from Iceland to C ...

, released in 2008 by

Ipecac Recordings Ipecac Recordings is an independent record label based in California. It was founded on April 1, 1999 by Greg Werckman (ex-label manager of Alternative Tentacles, ex-lead singer of DUH, ex-employee of Mercury Records) and Mike Patton (Faith No M ...

. Mugison recorded and mixed it together with Birgir Jón Birgisson in the Sundlaugin studio in

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

Track listing

All tracks written by Mugison. # "Mugiboogie" – 3:56 # "The Pathetic Anthem" – 4:14 # "To the Bone" – 3:38 # "Jesus Is a Good Name to Moan" – 4:36 # "George Harrison" – 3:28 # "Deep Breathing" – 5:14 # "I'm Alright" – 2:32 # "The Animal" – 3:58 # "Two Thumb Sucking Son of a Boyo" – 3:46 # "The Great Unrest" – 4:30 # "My Love I Love" – 2:10 # "Sweetest Melody" – 6:56

Personnel

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

, jaw harp (listed as mouthorgan) * Arnar Gislason –

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

on "Sweetest Melody" * Guðni Finnsson – bass,

on "Sweetest Melody" * Davið Þór Jónsson –

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

Moog synthesizer The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer developed by the American engineer Robert Moog. Moog debuted it in 1964, and Moog's company R. A. Moog Co. (later known as Moog Music) produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 20 ...

celesta The celesta or celeste , also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. It looks similar to an upright piano (four- or five-octave), albeit with smaller keys and a much smaller cabinet, or a large wooden music box ( ...

pump organ The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. T ...

and all kinds of horns,

on "Sweetest Melody" * Pétur Ben –

on "Mugiebooie", "Jesus Is a Good Name to Moan" and "Sweetest Melody", string arrangements on "Deep Breathing" and "The Great Unrest",

on "Sweetest Melody" * Rúna Esradóttir –

whispering Whispering is an unvoiced mode of phonation in which the vocal cords are abducted so that they do not vibrate; air passes between the arytenoid cartilages to create audible turbulence during speech. Supralaryngeal articulation remains the ...

on "The Pathetic Anthem" * Helgi Hrafn Jónsson –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

on "Mugieboogie" * Björgvin Gislasson –

and

sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in ...

on "George Harrison" and "Sweetest Melody" * Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Zbigniew Dubnik, Pálína Árnadóttir, Gréta Guðnadóttir –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

on "Deep Breathing" and "The Great Unrest" * Ótarrar Sæmundsen –

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

on "Deep Breathing" and "The Great Unrest" * Guðmundur Kristmundsson, Þórarinn Már Baldursson –

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

on "Deep Breathing" and "The Great Unrest" * Sigurgeir Agnarsson, Margrét Árnadóttir –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

on "Deep Breathing" and "The Great Unrest"

Trivia

* The poster for the European Tour was designed by

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References

Mugison albums 2008 albums Ipecac Recordings albums {{2008-rock-album-stub