The Mystery of Mordy Laye by Mordy Laye and The Group Modular
Markey Funk and Mule Driver ran a successful headstart campaign to get the project up and running.
There’s an interesting back story to this album:
It was late May 2009 when I was awakened by a phone call from an unidentified number. A man, who didn’t introduce himself, said that he has some rare music material that may interest me. An hour later, he picked me up from home and took me to what seemed to be his house in Tzur Hadassah, a small town near Jerusalem.
On the way he told me a story about a band that used to practice at his neighbour’s house back in the late 1970’s. They rehearsed almost every day for nearly two years, but they had never performed on stage. A few years later, when the house had been sold to someone else, a box of magnetic tapes was found in the basement. My mysterious stranger (who still refused to reveal his identity) had taken these tapes to his place, where he discovered that these were raw unfinished 8-track recordings of some rather extraordinary music, inspired by European library and electronic composers of its time.
When we arrived at his house, he took me to the cabinet and showed me the box with the name “Mordy Laye” written on it…
Is it true? Does it matter? You can read the whole story and listen to the whole album here.