MOTHER’S CAKE
ALL AROUND THE WORLD Our far-out trip to far-flung prog
From Austrian dive bars to sell-out Aussie shows, Jan Haußels explains how his trio became cool outsiders.
Mother’s Cake got a big break with a video.
MANU CHO
The Austrian state of Tyrol sits at a crossroads. To the north is Bavaria, while Italy, Liechtenstein and the rest of Austria hug its borders to the south, west and east respectively. In Tyrol, 10 years ago, Mother’s Cake became the archetypes of their own crossroads. Their ménage of progressive, funk, psychedelic and hard rock styles has seen them traverse much of the globe and release four critically acclaimed albums. But, as their German-born drummer Jan Haußels explains, breaking out of state lines wasn’t an easy feat.