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The Mostar Diving Club
12+ albums
indiefolkacousticsinger-songwriterexperimental
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The Mostar Diving Club is a British experimental band of multi-instrumentalists formed by Damian Katkhuda (formerly of Obi) in 2008. The songs on their first offering, "Don Your Suit of Lights" were written in a woodland farmhouse in the south of France, isolated and tranquil, reflecting the mood of this charming debut album. Produced by Will Worsley, who was responsible for much of Obi's early output (including the single "Somewhere Nicer," which was A-listed on Radio 2 and Virgin and led to several European tours and festival performances). The album travels through many musical genres and contains everything from large scale productions "Vagabonds and Clowns," to just a simple guitar and vocal recorded in the garden, "There Goes My Mind (Plastic Girls)." Recorder orchestras, violins with trumpet attachments, bowed saws, accordions, harmoniums, glockenspiels, banjos, auto harps, and ukuleles are just a few of the instruments that Damian and producer Will tackled during the making and recording of this highly eclectic album. The follow up album "Triumph of Hope" will be out soon and is what it says, a triumph. Of the many critics that have praised Damian's work, his albums have been described as "keys to the kingdom of lovely... an almost flawless example of up and downbeat folk pop story telling" in the Times. Mojo described "The Magic Land of Radio" as "utterly charming .... a melodic master-class", and metro said Diceman Lopez had "a sense of dreamy transportation to so
