The Well

Description

Berlin-based duo Mug present their debut album ‘The Well’. With a range of
influences from no-wave, shoe-gaze, rock, and ambient, “Mug’s” emotional rawness
refracts through a lens of spectral soundscapes and austere textures. Intimate and
sincere, ‘The Well’ is about licking your wounds after a breakup, finding light within
the cracks and letting it grow.
Ludwig Wandinger and Yves B Golden began their musical collaborations based on
mutual respect and interest in each artist’s vastly different backgrounds. Golden
grew up singing in her grandmother’s pentecostal church, but is known widely for
published essays and poetry. Wandinger, is an internationally acclaimed drummer,
music producer and visual artist, interacting in various fringe music scenes.
What began as long distance collaborations released under various outlets such as
Caterina Barbieri ́s light years, Wandinger and Golden, now living in the same city,
morphed into a protracted exploration of songwriting and improvisation, a process
defined by immediacy and unfiltered expression: “first thought, best thought.”
Though “The Well” marks the first release from this impulse driven duo, this album
promises an ongoing evolution, or discovery, wherein genre specificity is
inconsequential.