Mash is the name of several different acts, including a Japanese shoegaze band, an Italian dance project, a Swiss pop group, a Czech hard rock band, a Brazilian pop-rock band, and a solo experimental project by Tunisian artist Myriam Hamida. It is also used by one half of the duo Loren & Mash, who perform the song “Thanatos ~If I Can’t Be Yours~” for The End of Evangelion, and as a credit for the writers of “Suicide is Painless” from M*A*S*H.

Japanese and other music projects

The Japanese MASH is described as a shoegaze band. Another Japanese artist using the name Mash is a rapper turned singer-songwriter, known in the west for “Boys～輝く明日へ～,” an ending theme for Beyblade: Metal Fusion. Elsewhere, Mash is the solo project of Myriam Hamida, whose work draws on dark ambient, drone and power electronics. In 2015, she begins working on vocals with Lebanese electronic producer Jawad Nawfal, who records as Munma, and she also appears on the 2018 compilation Under Frustration Volume 1, a project led by the Tunisian collective Arabstazy and bringing together electronic musicians from the Arab world.

Other acts using the name

Under the same name, MASH is also an Italian dance project made up of the producers Luca Belloni, Massimo Moroldo, Claudio Lancini, F. Arcangeli, E. Galli and A. Di Stefano. Separate acts named MASH exist in Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Brazil, covering pop and hard rock as well as pop-rock.

Related credits

The name Mash also appears in the duo Loren & Mash, credited on “Thanatos ~If I Can’t Be Yours~” from The End of Evangelion. Another usage is The Mash, a credit name for Johnny Mandel and Mike Altman, who write “Suicide is Painless,” the theme from M*A*S*H.