Meet Muhar: Sergio Mohar

One Artist, Several Musical Worlds

For Sergio Mohar, music has never belonged to a single genre, project or period of his life.
The Mexican songwriter, musician, producer and DJ has spent years moving between different musical languages—from rock and songwriting to electronic music and darker, more experimental material. Rather than forcing those influences into a single identity, Mohar has developed distinct projects that allow each side of his musical personality to exist on its own terms.
At the center of his current work is Sergio Mohar Music, his solo artist project and the home of his work as a songwriter and rock musician.
Songs such as “Suspiro en el Aire,” “Nadie Está” and “Dónde Queda Tu Luz” reveal a more personal side of his writing: music built around human experiences, relationships, absence, memory and the complicated emotions that often resist simple explanations.
The project also includes The Mohar Sessions, a space where songs can be approached more directly through performances, reinterpretations and stripped-down versions. It is less about separating the songwriter from the performer and more about showing different stages and dimensions of the same musical work.
El Sueño del Dragón: the rock history behind the artist
Sergio Mohar Music did not appear in a vacuum.
Part of Mohar’s musical history reaches back to El Sueño del Dragón, the Mexican rock project with which he was involved years before establishing his present solo identity.
Old photographs, songs, recordings and other surviving material from the band now form an archive of an earlier chapter in his development as a musician. Rather than pretending that history never happened—or presenting it as something it is not today—Mohar has begun revisiting it through material such as Archivo del Dragón, preserving the music and stories surrounding that period.
El Sueño del Dragón and Sergio Mohar Music therefore occupy different spaces. One represents an important part of his musical past and catalog; the other is the active solo path through which he continues writing and releasing music today.
MÜHAR: when the guitars give way to electronic music
There is another side of Mohar’s musical identity that requires an entirely different environment.
Under the name MÜHAR, he explores electronic music as a DJ and producer.
Its principal territory is modern dark psytrance, extending into dark and full-on psytrance, progressive elements, techno and melodic techno, while occasionally allowing room for experiments outside those boundaries.
That freedom is important to the project.
MÜHAR is not simply Sergio Mohar Music with electronic production behind it. It has its own aesthetic, musical vocabulary and purpose. It is a place for tension, repetition, rhythm, movement and the particular relationship between electronic music and the dance floor.
It can also wander into unexpected musical history. His reinterpretation of “You Rascal You,” for example, draws from the jazz/swing tradition associated with Jimmie Noone, bringing an older musical reference into a completely different electronic context.
From H. P. Lovecraft to music
Perhaps the strangest corner of Mohar’s musical output begins with literature rather than genre.
The universe of H. P. Lovecraft has inspired Sergio to experiment with compositions built around cosmic horror, strange fiction and the atmosphere surrounding places such as Innsmouth, Kingsport and R’lyeh.
Those experiments have developed into musical concepts including “Navidad en R’lyeh — Villancicos Malditos Vol. I,” “Delta Innsmouth Swamp Blues,” “Corazones Negros de Kingsport” and the atmospheric “LOFI FROM R’LYEH.”
There is even “El Danzón de Cthulhu,” an example of what happens when a figure normally associated with cosmic horror is deliberately pushed into a musical tradition where nobody would reasonably expect to find him.
The point is not simply to write songs about Lovecraft.
These tracks explore what happens when his fictional atmosphere is translated into completely different musical languages—blues, bolero, Christmas music, danzón, lo-fi and other experiments. The contrast itself becomes part of the creative idea.
Different names, one musical curiosity
Viewed separately, Sergio Mohar Music, El Sueño del Dragón, MÜHAR and the Lovecraft-inspired recordings can appear to belong to completely different musicians.
In many ways, that is precisely why they remain distinct.
Sergio Mohar Music provides the space for the songwriter and rock artist.
El Sueño del Dragón preserves a significant chapter of his history in Mexican rock.
MÜHAR gives his electronic and DJ work an identity of its own.
And the H. P. Lovecraft-inspired recordings provide a laboratory where literature, humor, atmosphere and musical genres that should not necessarily coexist are allowed to collide.
What connects them is not a single sound.
It is Sergio Mohar’s continuing interest in discovering what a piece of music can become when he allows himself to move between worlds rather than remain inside only one.

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