THE NEW MOURNING

The New Mourning is the latest song-writing vehicle of musician and recording engineer Thomas Pronai. Pronai runs a (mostly) analogue studio in eastern Austria, set in the rural fringes of the Pannonian Steppe. In this idyllic setting he recorded a string of legendary acts from the Austrian music scene (Der Nino aus Wien, Ernst Molden, Ja, Panik just to name a few) in addition to his own band projects (Bo Candy & His Broken Hearts, Defoe & Pronai, Le Charmant Rouge,…).

The concept of The New Mourning began while touring Germany (2018) as drummer in Pete Astor’s band (The Weather Prophets, The Loft) alongside James Hoare (Veronica Falls, The Proper Ornaments) and Rose Keeler-Schäffeler (Keel Her, Tim Burgess). The experience of a real live band, playing simple, reduced rock ‘n’ roll songs without any frills and furbelows, inspired Pronai to recreate that very feeling on tape. Three months later he found himself in London laying the tracks for two new songs onto Hoare’s Studer 16-track tape machine for the band’s debut single (Who’d Stop The Sun, Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten KUS22, 7” vinyl)....

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