Yes Mother

Yes Mother is a psych rock band that harvests bygonely new sounds from legendary sixties instruments and analogue tape. The project began while its members were touring with The Doors In Concert, where a shared love for that era’s sound led them to write their own material. With no bassist (just a Fender Rhodes Piano Bass doing the heavy lifting) their music leans into warm analogue production, odd stories, and a surprising number of hidden easter eggs.

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Yes Mother was initiated as a studio project. Safe, underground and independent. Unfortunately for us, we got curious about whether we could bring our music onto the stage. So here goes nothing, and no better place to try this than a venue that’s used to the ground shaking a little now and then.

It all started with one quirky, carnivalesque track in 2014, which slowly grew into a full album crafted with love, misery, and stubborn dedication to doing things the old way. We had some stories to tell on this record. Mainly about heartbreak, from either love or weltschmerz, and the stuff people use to try and glue it back together. Whether there’s a red, silver, thin or other line to be found is up to you.

Kindled by the great bands of the sixties and seventies, we had songs appearing at random late nights by bouncing ideas back and forth. Usually around midnight, mostly after drinks. As neither of us lives in the same city, we’d send sound snippets around over which we then recorded other ideas, eventually stringing it into something we thought alright.

We’ll do it LIVE!

 For years, Yes Mother remained a studio-only project, shaped by busy touring schedules and the belief that music can matter without ever hitting a stage. That’s why Yes Mother LIVE is special: it’s the first and only live show to date where this strange little universe is brought to life on stage.

On February 7th, we’re taking our strange sounds to the Engelstede near Groningen. We only have 45 minutes of album material, so we’ll pad the night with a handful of other sonic mischiefs, courtesy of our many years with The Doors In Concert. And if the stars align, the Mother herself may wander in and sprinkle a bit of extra magic over the evening. It’s intimate. It’s tight. It might get a little weird.

A psych evening awaits!

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