"Top 10 live acts of the year?"
- (GlitterBallNYC)

When a band is selected "Top 10 live acts of the year" it really has to be something special. That's the case for Hess Is More. A transatlantic music ensemble. 7 international musicians and the captain of the project: the Danish musician Mikkel Hess.

"Where on earth did this music come from?"
- Jay Ruttenberg, music critic, writer & editor. Lowbrow Reader.

Bearsong and Youarenotaprimate were arranged during the group's residency at Clocktower Gallery in downtown New York. Recorded Live to Tape and mixed by Andrew Raposo (Midnight Magic /Hercules & Love Affair / DFA) at Midnight Sun Studios in Greenpoint.

These seven musicians, with their unique instrumentation and unorthodox arrangements create a very danceable yet at times puzzling sound. Melodies with quite unusual developments, basslines that have their roots in late 1970 jazz funk and - on Primate - lyrics can haunt you for days: "You are not a primate, you are not Maharishi either, but in between there is someone called yourself".

"I believe I just witnessed the future of live dance music"
- Pips (Petty Nobles Collective)

Watch the live performance of Bearsong on Youtube.

When you watch Hess Is More's live recording from a performance at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen you realize that these guys have an ability, that less and less musicians in the electronic music scene have: they can play instruments, they know about music history, they have jammed for years - they can create the magic organic music and have a vibe. A vibe that you cannot create with electronic instruments, even if this music has many electronic aspects. Bearsong is an instrumental composition, that has a complex, yet so catchy melodic structure and rolling beat that on one side it's totally impossible to categorize stylistically, but still is playable by for eclectic DJs of today. Youarenotaprimate is an orgy of No Wave drums and vocals, an Afrobeat-bassline and distorted rhode pianos.

"Top 10 music of the year"
- Time Out Magazine, New York

Mikkel Hess is also composer of music for film, theatre and ballet. Latest he was nominated for the prestigious Robert Award and Carl Award with his score for the feature film "When Animals Dream".

"When can i get vinyl? I hate listening to files..."
- James Murphy, musician, producer. LCD soundsystem, DFA records.

A remix EP vinyl with remixes by DIMITRI FROM PARIS, POLLYESTER, Williamsbourg's hidden star: Lorna Dune will come out in September.