GUESS WHAT

In 2005, Luke Warmcop (drums, percussion) and Graham Mushnik (organ, synthesizers) formed GUESS WHAT somewhere in France and began assembling samples of experimental percussion and strange organ themes influenced by jazz and bossa nova. Two years later, the duo moved to London and founded the Catapulte Records label with a long-time collaborator, Antonin Voyant (L’Orchestre du Montplaisant, Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek, Phat Dat).

Between 2008 and 2014, GUESS WHAT performed frequently in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Balkans, whether for a tribute to Yuri Gagarin (the album Yuri Gagarin-12 Modern Odes to History’s Greatest Spaceman on Catapulte Records, 2009), imaginary Giallo film soundtracks (the album “Mondo Giallo” on Imagenes Recordings, 2012), or a cosmic exploration of Persian and Arabic music (the album “Al-Khawarizmi” on Catapulte, 2015).

While conquering new countries with his ever-changing show and mystical masks and costumes (Benelux, Switzerland, and all of Southern Europe from Portugal to Bulgaria, notably touring with Mike Watt & the Missingmen in 2014 and then with the Indonesian band Zoo in 2017), GUESS WHAT continues its exploration of space and time, among other things through the composition of the soundtrack for the mystical-metallurgical show Ouroboros (Titanos company, 2017).

The duo’s fourth LP, Children In Space, an album designed for educating children in space, was released in 2021 and propelled Guess What onto the stage with a brand new set design in which the masked duo emerges from a rocket before starting the concert.

The year 2023 will be their most prolific in terms of recordings, with the release of the soundtrack to “Ouroboros” and a double LP, “Chrestomathy,” bringing together their first albums. DJ Coco Maria’s compilation “Club Coco Volume 2” (Bongo Joe) includes two previously unreleased tracks by Guess What, while Warmcop and Mushnik are already working on their sixth album…