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The Magic Mumble Jumble has always been a band with a positive message and a true pleasure for life - and they seem to hit the mark!
Photography by Jakob Lauber
“Don’t forget to move your body to the beat”, a line of hope that got thousands of people to pick themselves up for a moment and just dance. With over six million streams on Spotify the single “Don’t Forget” seems to have struck a chord. The song is a message of hope for the fans, and one of the Magic Mumble Jumble’s most popular works. That’s why the band is taking exactly this message on tour with them in 2024. But this time the dancing is moving from your living room to the club and festival stages. The Magic Mumble Jumble invites you to celebrate life in 2024 with a healthy serving of Folk-Pop fortified with dancing and good fun over a full festival season and two headliner club tours!
The eight piece band share more than these deep experiences: the sound of their unique blend of jazz, pop, indie and folk, as well as the ability to translate their sense of connection to any audience. With his charismatic stage presence and live-to-love attitude bandleader Paul Istance is on a mission to make the shows a magic experience in which the gap between audience and band disappears completely. Armed with their eight singing voices, horns, percussion, electric and acoustic guitars as well as a huge amount of positive energy, The Magic Mumble Jumble sets out to include all the people they encounter in their journey on the road to freedom.
Since its founding the band has released several singles of which the song “Home” was featured on a Sony Compilation in 2015. These releases were followed by their live debut album “The Magic Mumble Jumble” in 2016 - an outstanding live recording that the band made in the Netherlands together with more than 60 musicians. Due to great sales it has had to be reproduced several times. In the autumn of 2017 they released their successful EP “We All Want Sunshine’’ and gave birth to their second album “Show your Love” in November 2018. The band recorded that album together with producer Tom Gelissen (Ennio Morricone, Woodkid, Armin van Buuren). In ‘2019 Burg Herzberg Festival’ asked the band to publish their live show of the previous year. This live recording of 14 songs with 90 minutes of pure energy and love is a spectacular documentation and resembles the bands strongest feature - their live show. In 2020 the German television program ZDF invited the band to perform at the ‘ZDF Morgenmagazin’. The latest single 'Don't Forget' just hit the 6.000.000 plays mark on Spotify.
Photography by Roman Knie