Mark Mulholland is a travelling singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer, whose musical peregrinations have taken him from his native Scotland through most of Europe and North America, via Haiti and Mali, where he lived for several years, and now to France.

  • MARK MULHOLLAND WEBSITE SELECTION

    Various Albums Tracks

    2022

  • FIGHTING WITH YOUR SHADOW

    Mark Mulholland

    Release 02/05/25

  • REVOLUTIONS GO IN CIRCLES

    Mark Mulholland

    Release 27/5/22

  • THE DEVIL ON THE STAIRS

    Mark Mulholland

    2019

  • KUMA

    Kankou

    2019

  • MEDICINE TUNES

    Tony Rose

    2018

  • THE DARKNESS BETWEEN THE LEAVES

    Alba Griot Ensemble

    2018

  • ROLL HIGH & ROLL GOOD - SONGS OF TONY ROSE

    Various Artists

    2018

  • SOMEWHERE ELSE

    Rummage

    2016

  • AFRO-HAITIAN EXPERIMENTAL ORCHESTRA

    Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra

    2016

  • NEW PLANET

    Joe Armstrong

    2016

  • CHAOPHONIES

    Frankétienne & Mark Mulholland

    2014

  • WAITING FOR THE STORM

    Mark Mulholland & Craig Ward

    2012

  • THE CACTUS AND THE DRAGON

    Mark Mulholland

    2011

  • NEW ADVENTURES

    Two Dollar Bash

    2011

  • LOST RIVER

    Two Dollar Bash

    2008

  • ON THE ROAD

    Two Dollar Bash

    2007

  • TWO DOLLAR BASH

    Two Dollar Bash

    2007

  • FUNTENI BE BI DE

    Funteni Baby

    2017

  • Reality TV - Mark Mulholland - Fighting with your Shadow

  • Moving On - Mark Mulholland - Revolutions go in Circles

  • New Adventures - Two Dollar Bash - New Adventures

  • Nothing to Prove - Mark Mulholland - Fighting with your Shadow

  • Walk a While - Mark Mulholland - Revolutions go in Circles

  • Claret Blue - Rummage - Somewhere Else

  • Ville schizophonique - Frankétienne & Mark Mulholland - Chaophonies

  • River Walk - Mark Mulholland - Revolutions go in Circles

  • Taking A Taxi - Two Dollar Bash - Two Dollar Bash

  • Waiting for the storm - Mark Mulholland & Craig Ward - Waiting for the Storm

  • The Cactus and the Dragon - Mark Mulholland - The Cactus and the Dragon

  • When It's Over - Mark Mulholland - The Devil on the Stairs

  • Reality TV - Mark Mulholland - Fighting with your Shadow

  • Nothing to prove - Mark Mulholland - Fighting with your Shadow

  • A Country Song - Mark Mulholland - Fighting with your Shadow

  • Moving On - Mark Mulholland - Revolutions go in Circles

  • River Walk - Mark Mulholland - Revolutions go in Circles

  • Walk a While - Mark Mulholland - Revolutions go in Circles

  • Drowning - Mark Mulholland - The Devil on the Stairs

  • When It's Over - Mark Mulholland - The Devil on the Stairs

  • Don't Want To Hear You Laugh - Mark Mulholland - The Devil on the Stairs

  • Sigi - Kankou - Kuma

  • Da - Kankou - Kuma

  • Kuma - Kankou - Kuma

  • When I Walk will you Follow - Tony Rose - Medicine Tunes

  • South of the Border - Tony Rose - Medicine Tunes

  • Getting it Together - Tony Rose - Medicine Tunes

  • Melt my Blues Away - Alba Griot Ensemble - The Darkness Between the Leaves

  • Long Way Home - Alba Griot Ensemble - The Darkness Between the Leaves

  • Horonia - Alba Griot Ensemble - The Darkness Between the Leaves

  • Joe Armstrong and friends - You Dont do Nothing Wrong - Various Artists - Roll High & Roll Good

  • The Mayhaws - Old Woman - Various Artists - Roll High & Roll Good

  • The Slaters - So Blue - Various Artists - Roll High & Roll Good

  • Claret Blue - Rummage - Somewhere Else

  • Departure Lounge Blues - Rummage - Somewhere Else

  • Hoodathunkit - Rummage - Somewhere Else

  • Salilento - Afro​-​Haitian Experimental Orchestra - Afro​-​Haitian Experimental Orchestra

  • Bade-Zile - Afro​-​Haitian Experimental Orchestra - Afro​-​Haitian Experimental Orchestra

  • Mon-Ami-Tezin - Afro​-​Haitian Experimental Orchestra - Afro​-​Haitian Experimental Orchestra

  • You Don't Get it - Joe Armstrong - New Planet

  • Guilt Ridden Blues - Joe Armstrong - New Planet

  • New Planet - Joe Armstrong - New Planet

  • Mots et Rêves - Frankétienne & Mark Mulholland - Chaophonies

  • Ville schizophonique - Frankétienne & Mark Mulholland - Chaophonies

  • Bleu fou - Frankétienne & Mark Mulholland - Chaophonies

  • All the doors are open - Mark Mulholland & Craig Ward - Waiting for the Storm

  • Waiting for the storm - Mark Mulholland & Craig Ward - Waiting for the Storm

  • A strange place - Mark Mulholland & Craig Ward - Waiting for the Storm

  • Why d'you Treat me This Way - Mark Mulholland - The Cactus and the Dragon

  • Another Falling Star - Mark Mulholland - The Cactus and the Dragon

  • The Cactus and the Dragon - Mark Mulholland - The Cactus and the Dragon

  • New Adventures - Two Dollar Bash - New Adventures

  • Blame it on me - Two Dollar Bash - New Adventures

  • Same old lie - Two Dollar Bash - New Adventures

  • Blue Skies Once Again - Two Dollar Bash - Lost River

  • Man In Black - Two Dollar Bash - Lost River

  • Reprobate - Two Dollar Bash - Lost River

  • Roulez, Roulez - Two Dollar Bash - On the Road

  • Tomorrow Never Comes - Two Dollar Bash - On the Road

  • Whisky - Two Dollar Bash - On the Road

  • Old Mail Train - Two Dollar Bash - Two Dollar Bash

  • Taking A Taxi - Two Dollar Bash - Two Dollar Bash

  • The Devil And The Angel - Two Dollar Bash - Two Dollar Bash

  • Anw te Kele fe - Funteni Baby - Funteni Be Bi De

  • Funteni Be Bi De - Funteni Baby - Funteni Be Bi De

  • Mvulu - Funteni Baby - Funteni Be Bi De

The journalist Adam Jenkins, in his review of the 2022 album “Revolutions go in Circles” for the UK magazine Fatea, said “Mark Mulholland is a restless force of nature. I see him like an inverted lightning conductor, plant him somewhere, anywhere, and music flows out of the ground through him and out into the world. Occasionally a musician like Mulholland comes along who appears driven to create and record music that is both globally connective and an immediate response to his surroundings and musical companions.”

Exchange, exploration and the magic of shared experiences, in music and in life, are common threads running through Mark Mulholland’s career.

From playing in psychedelic bands in Edinburgh to busking in the streets of Europe, forming bands in the West of Ireland and swapping songs with other songwriters in the febrile atmosphere of Prague after the Velvet Revolution, hosting a legendary open-mic session for several years in a concert venue he helped found in Berlin in the 90’s, epic tours criss-crossing Europe and North America with the country-folk troubadours Two Dollar Bash, recording with Nikki Sudden and Captain Sensible, collaborations in Port-au-Prince with Haitian polymath and living national treasure Frankétienne and the stunning afro-beat/voodoo/electronic/psychedelia project The Afro Haitian Experimental Orchestra, featuring afrobeat legend Tony Allen and many of Haiti’s most talented musicians, creating and running a festival in Bamako with kora maestro Toumani Diabate, blending Mandingue and Celtic traditions in Alba Griot Ensemble‘s exquisite album “The Darkness Between the Leaves”, fusing pop-rock with the sublime voice of griot singer Kankou Kouyate to create an album chosen as the best record of the year of any genre by the Danish newspaper Globalnyt, production work with Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Rachid Taha, Wesli and touareg rockers Tamikrest amongst others, collaborating with Mozambican legend Chico Antonio in Maputo…the list goes on.

Along the way he has recorded more than 20 albums, solo or with bands and other configurations, and many more as producer, engineer or arranger, plus a host of contributions as a guest or session musician. He produced the latest album by Malian legend Samba Touré, released on Glitterbeat Records in January 2025 to critical acclaim, and recently co-wrote and recorded a song, “Playing with the Big Boys”, with French trip-hop/electro-pop pioneer Kid Loco. The types of music he plays range widely, but his distinctive style is always recognisable. As Dave Franklin noted in his review of “Somewhere Else”, the 2016 album that Mark recorded in California with Rusty Miller and James Finch Jr under the name Rummage, “He manages to hop genres at will – raw rock, melodic pop, late night cabaret club ballads, chilled blues and country grooves – but still come out with a cohesive collection of songs which somehow not only feel at home on the same album but also uniquely and intrinsically his own.

”Revolutions go in Circles”, recorded in Bamako, Paris, Berlin and New York, featured collaborations with many of the musicians he has worked with in recent years, including Toumani Diabate, Tony Allen, Yacouba SIssoko, Stéphane Doucerain, Vincent Bucher & Baba MD, rand eached number 2 on Roots Music Report’s Folk Rock top 50 chart. Seuras Og, in the magazine At the Barrier, described it as “one of the more charming records of the year. A pearl of a project, exquisite, an unexpected joy.”

His latest album, “Fighting with your Shadow”, will be released on May 2nd on Ports of Call Music.

He has another album ready for release recorded with Australian drummer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Hughes, which will come out in late 2025, and is touring regularly,

Camargue photos by Robert Betkowski et studio photo by Bruno Lemonnier