Morcheeba are a
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that mixes influences from
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,
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,
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and
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. Their most popular
albumAn album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites.-...
s include debut
Who Can You Trust? and
Big CalmBig Calm is the second album by Morcheeba. One of their more popular albums, Big Calm comprises 12 tracks. “The Music That We Hear,” which is found on special-edition versions of the album is actually a reworking of another song from Morcheeba's first album, Who Can You Trust, along with the song...
. They are primarily known for the single "
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day"Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" is a song by an English group Morcheeba released in 1999 as the first single off their third studio album Fragments of Freedom...
." The group released their sixth studio album
Dive DeepDive Deep is the sixth studio album by British band Morcheeba released on February 4, 2008 in the United Kingdom. It is also the second studio album recorded without former lead singer Skye Edwards. It features a number of different vocalists, and several songs can be heard on the band's MySpace...
in February 2008.
The group has sold around 6 million copies of their albums worldwide.
Sometime in the mid-1990s, the Godfrey brothers (
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Paul Godfrey and multi-instrumentalist Ross Godfrey) recruited
Skye EdwardsSkye Edwards is a British singer, born in East London. Until 2003, she was the lead singer of the band Morcheeba. Edwards decided to shorten her name to Skye by taking the first letter of each of her names and putting them together. She is married to the singer Steve Gordon and they have two...
as vocalist, during a chance meeting at a party in which both brothers were introduced to Skye.
Morcheeba are a
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
bandRock band redirects here. For the video game series, see Rock Band A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music...
that mixes influences from
trip hopTrip-hop is a music genre also known as the Bristol sound. The trip-hop description was applied to the musical trend in the mid-1990s of downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes. It is often rejected as a term by those artists to whom it is applied...
,
rockRock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music....
,
rhythm and bluesRhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s...
and
popPop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs...
. Their most popular
albumAn album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites.-...
s include debut
Who Can You Trust? and
Big CalmBig Calm is the second album by Morcheeba. One of their more popular albums, Big Calm comprises 12 tracks. “The Music That We Hear,” which is found on special-edition versions of the album is actually a reworking of another song from Morcheeba's first album, Who Can You Trust, along with the song...
. They are primarily known for the single "
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day"Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" is a song by an English group Morcheeba released in 1999 as the first single off their third studio album Fragments of Freedom...
." The group released their sixth studio album
Dive DeepDive Deep is the sixth studio album by British band Morcheeba released on February 4, 2008 in the United Kingdom. It is also the second studio album recorded without former lead singer Skye Edwards. It features a number of different vocalists, and several songs can be heard on the band's MySpace...
in February 2008.
The group has sold around 6 million copies of their albums worldwide.
Biography
Sometime in the mid-1990s, the Godfrey brothers (
DJA disc jockey is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, dis
k referred to phonograph records, while dis
c referred to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling...
Paul Godfrey and multi-instrumentalist Ross Godfrey) recruited
Skye EdwardsSkye Edwards is a British singer, born in East London. Until 2003, she was the lead singer of the band Morcheeba. Edwards decided to shorten her name to Skye by taking the first letter of each of her names and putting them together. She is married to the singer Steve Gordon and they have two...
as vocalist, during a chance meeting at a party in which both brothers were introduced to Skye. This led to formation of Morcheeba. The band's name means "the way of marijuana."
Five albums later in 2003, Edwards was asked to leave the band by the Godfrey Brothers.
In 2005 they recorded another album,
The AntidoteReleased on May 31, 2005, The Antidote is Morcheeba's fifth album. The single "Wonders Never Cease" was featured in commercials for the Discovery Channel...
, and recruited
Daisy MarteyDaisy Martey is the lead vocalist for Noonday Underground. Late in 2004, Martey left the band to become the lead singer of Morcheeba, replacing their former singer, Skye Edwards. Martey recorded the vocals for Morcheeba's fifth studio album, The Antidote, which was released in May 2005...
(formerly of the band
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) to replace Edwards on vocals. Martey was fired from the band in 2005. Later, the Godfrey brothers replaced Martey with another singer - Jody Sternberg - for their live performances, but their tour in support of
Dive Deep was with
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singer, Manda, on lead vocals.
Their latest
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album
Dive DeepDive Deep is the sixth studio album by British band Morcheeba released on February 4, 2008 in the United Kingdom. It is also the second studio album recorded without former lead singer Skye Edwards. It features a number of different vocalists, and several songs can be heard on the band's MySpace...
was released in February 2008 in
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and the UK. This album,
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by Paul and Ross Godfrey, featured several guest vocalists including
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,
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,
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, and Manda.
Studio albums
- Who Can You Trust? (8 April 1996, Indochina
China Records was a record label founded October 1, 1984 by Derek Green. Its top-selling artists were Art of Noise, Morcheeba and The Levellers....
) (UK) / (Discovery RecordsDiscovery Records was a United States based record label known for its recordings of jazz music.Discovery was founded in 1948 by jazz fan and promoter Albert Marx...
) (U.S.The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
) - #57 UKThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus.To qualify for the UK albums...
- Big Calm
Big Calm is the second album by Morcheeba. One of their more popular albums, Big Calm comprises 12 tracks. “The Music That We Hear,” which is found on special-edition versions of the album is actually a reworking of another song from Morcheeba's first album, Who Can You Trust, along with the song...
(1998, SireSire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer. Its early releases as a record label were issued in 1968, distributed by London...
) - #18 UK
- Fragments of Freedom
Fragments of Freedom is Morcheeba's third album. It was released in 2000. The album proved to have been one of their most successful albums in terms of chart sales however critical reception was not as welcoming as with other Morcheeba albums. Mostly due to the drastic change in sound...
(1 August 2000, SireSire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer. Its early releases as a record label were issued in 1968, distributed by London...
) - #6 UK, #113 US Billboard 200The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling new music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
- Charango
Charango is a 2002 album by the British group Morcheeba. Singles released include "Otherwise", "Way Beyond" and "Undress Me Now". However, the release of "Undress Me Now" fell through and thus no release was made however there was a promotional video created which displayed Skye Edwards in a...
(2 July 2002, Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.—the shortened form of the former official, sometimes still used, formal corporate name: Warner Brothers
) - #7 UK
- The Antidote
Released on May 31, 2005, The Antidote is Morcheeba's fifth album. The single "Wonders Never Cease" was featured in commercials for the Discovery Channel...
(2005) - #17 UK
- Dive Deep
Dive Deep is the sixth studio album by British band Morcheeba released on February 4, 2008 in the United Kingdom. It is also the second studio album recorded without former lead singer Skye Edwards. It features a number of different vocalists, and several songs can be heard on the band's MySpace...
(2008, Echo/PIAS) - #59 UK
Compilation albums and others
- La Boule Noire
La Boule Noire is an acoustic album of the band Morcheeba. It was released in 1998 and recorded at La Boule Noire, a small concert hall located in Pigalle district, Paris, France-Track listing:#"The Sea"#"Parts of the Process"#"Col"#"Blindfold"...
(1998) (live)
- Back to Mine
Back to Mine is a series of mix albums, usually mixed by renowned DJs or composers of electronic music. The compilations usually feature artists other than the artist compiling the album, and are based on what the artist would play at home after a night out, rather than as part of a nightclub...
(2001)
- Parts of the Process (The Very Best of Morcheeba)
Parts of the Process is a greatest hits album by British Trip-Hop band Morcheeba.The album features all songs released as singles except for Shoulder Holster...
(2003) - #6 UKThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus.To qualify for the UK albums...
- The Platinum Collection (2005)
- Get Mashed (by Kool DJ Klear)
Get Mashed is Morcheeba's album, a bootleg mixtape by Kool DJ Klear from Capricorn 2 which features many out takes and new rare exclusive material.-Track listing:#"4 In the Morning " 01:53...
Singles
| Year |
Song |
UK Singles The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
|
US Hot Dance Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
|
Album |
| 1996 |
"Trigger Hippie" |
40 |
- |
Who Can You Trust? |
| "Never an Easy Way" |
- |
- |
| "Tape Loop" |
42 |
- |
| 1997 |
"The Music That We Hear (Moog Island)" |
47 |
- |
| "Shoulder Holster" |
53 |
- |
Big Calm Big Calm is the second album by Morcheeba. One of their more popular albums, Big Calm comprises 12 tracks. “The Music That We Hear,” which is found on special-edition versions of the album is actually a reworking of another song from Morcheeba's first album, Who Can You Trust, along with the song...
|
| 1998 |
"The Sea" |
- |
- |
| "Blindfold" |
56 |
- |
| "Let Me See" |
46 |
- |
| "Part of the Process" |
38 |
- |
| "Summertime" |
- |
- |
Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin GrooveRed Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove is a compilation album produced by the Red Hot Organization to celebrate the birthday of George Gershwin, one of the greatest music composers of the twentieth century. This compilation is the twelfth entry from the international organization's Red Hot...
|
| 1999 |
"Rome Wasn't Built in a Day "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" is a song by an English group Morcheeba released in 1999 as the first single off their third studio album Fragments of Freedom...
" |
34 |
- |
Fragments of Freedom Fragments of Freedom is Morcheeba's third album. It was released in 2000. The album proved to have been one of their most successful albums in terms of chart sales however critical reception was not as welcoming as with other Morcheeba albums. Mostly due to the drastic change in sound...
|
| 2000 |
"Be Yourself" |
- |
- |
| 2001 |
"World Looking In" |
48 |
- |
| 2002 |
"Otherwise" |
64 |
5 |
Charango Charango is a 2002 album by the British group Morcheeba. Singles released include "Otherwise", "Way Beyond" and "Undress Me Now". However, the release of "Undress Me Now" fell through and thus no release was made however there was a promotional video created which displayed Skye Edwards in a...
|
| "Way Beyond" |
- |
- |
| "Undress Me Now" |
- |
- |
| 2003 |
"What's Your Name?" |
- |
- |
Parts of the Process Parts of the Process is a greatest hits album by British Trip-Hop band Morcheeba.The album features all songs released as singles except for Shoulder Holster...
|
| 2005 |
"Wonders Never Cease" |
- |
- |
The Antidote Released on May 31, 2005, The Antidote is Morcheeba's fifth album. The single "Wonders Never Cease" was featured in commercials for the Discovery Channel...
|
| "Lighten Up" |
- |
- |
| "Everybody Loves a Loser" |
- |
- |
| 2008 |
"Enjoy the Ride" |
- |
- |
Dive DeepDive Deep is the sixth studio album by British band Morcheeba released on February 4, 2008 in the United Kingdom. It is also the second studio album recorded without former lead singer Skye Edwards. It features a number of different vocalists, and several songs can be heard on the band's MySpace...
|
| "Gained the World "Gained the World" is the second single released from Morcheeba's sixth studio album Dive Deep. It was digitally released on April 28, 2008, while it was physically released in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2008...
" |
- |
- |
Other contributions
- Acoustic 05 (2005, Echo) - "Wonders Never Cease"
- Acoustic 07
Acoustic 07 is a 2-disc compilation album, released under V2 Records in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2007. The collection is the seventh of V2 Records' popular Acoustic series.-Track listing:Disc 1:#"Lovestain", performed by José González...
(2007, V2 RecordsV2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI....
) - "Lighten Up"
- Chillout Classics
Part of the Chillout Sessions series, Chillout Classics is a three-disc compilation of songs by various artists that was released by Ministry of Sound.-Disc 1:# Jakatta – "American Dream "...
(2007, Ministry of SoundMinistry of Sound London , is a nightclub, based in London, England and an associated record label....
) - "The Sea"
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