DEBUT ALBUM 'ONE', out October 2013

What the hell is ABSTRACT FICTION SOUL? The electronic Sideproject of The Ruffcats' bass-player Joh Weisgerber aka Monojo takes you to new horizons with his band: MUFK!
The brash pop-music of the big city with all its glitches and detuned synths is defined anew through abstract-futuristic beats which meet with the contrasting depths of the soul. Desire and possession, passion and emptiness, dreams and traumas, hope and devotion.

Dubstep basses under your feet and the blue sky in your head. Pure dope for the soul! Monojo and Frau Krusche know where they are moving throughout their debut album, far away from genre clichés, playfully picking and choosing from the entire musical buffet. The intricate electronic compositions of Monojo and the disturbingly beautiful texts of Frau Krusche sought and found themselves. The creative duo realized a dream and built an oasis for working and living in the green surroundings of Berlin; here they produced the MUFK album.

Monojo, who, for the last few years, has worked with a good number of greats in the soul universe (Flo Mega, Ivy Quainoo, Yarah Bravo, Georgia Anne Muldrow...) as bassist for the Ruffcats, is living out his electronic side as part of MUFK in his own recording studio "Dorfplatzmusik": the yearning sound-worlds glimpse the light of the world. Since his childhood this sound-freak has been at his happiest passing his time in crowded studios, surrounded by multiple electronic and acoustic musical toys – his collection grows steadily. His most loyal companions have been his Akai MPC 2000 and his many basses along with his sound archive, which he has been assembling for more than 20 years.

Frau Krusches texts are apathetically poetic, her favorite creations are “beautiful nightmares with glittery rain”. The most important tools for her are pictorial language, an uncontrived presence, and a sure feeling for the right idea. In the process of writing she often finds herself reminded of childhood experiences telling stories through songs lasting for hours, songs which she sang as if they were mantras. This effect lends the songs their pull on the listeners: “In the end it’s a little tic which moves you somewhere deep inside, and from then on you can’t live without the song.” She defines herself as a singer as a “modern storyteller, who in the best case opens a door for the listeners to enter into themselves.”

Live on board with MUFK is Miguel Altamar, well known as percussionist from the Ruffcats. Last but not least, MUFK's “One” comes with a refreshing remix: Monojo and Frau Krusche have taken the song “Odd Stones” off the Ruffcats’ debut album, “The Essence Vol. 1” and translated it into Mufkish.

MUFK already played as support band for Georgia Anne Muldrow, and another tour with her is being planned in 2014 (tba)!