Mon Goose
is the project of multi-instrumentalists Yegang Yoo and Robert Lombardo (both ex-Alex Delivery [Jagjaguwar]). Flowing from dance grooves to experimental soundscapes, their songs twist and turn melodically through dense layers of sound, inventive live percussion, and a unique melding of electronic and acoustic sounds.
FULL LENGTH ALBUM
Very Still Right Now
Very Still Right Now lives in the intersection of music to listen to and music to dance to. Showing influences from space disco (stand-out track “I Feel Goose” is gloriously remixed by Lindstrøm) to Krautrock to techno ... to soundtrack records ... to classical ... it shifts and turns, sweeping you unaware from the disco dance floor to the melancholic high seas with a unique ability to contain, expand, and gradually distort moods without sacrificing a sense of lightheartedness. The album is the culmination of several years’ work from the duo, tangled in the wires of an arsenal of analog gear in their basement studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and is the first offering of much to come.
Available on full color jacket LP
Drums and Percussions by Colin Ryan
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
EP
I Feel Goose / I Feel Goose Lindstrøm Remix
A cat purrs … arpeggiators bubble up from under the surface … synth jabs emerge and begin to shimmer, all coming into focus, hinting… disco? No, something different. “I Feel Goose” is a song that dances us to many places, becoming something all its own and settling into a groove that might recall Metro Area’s early work, as a melody appears and triangles and brake-drums clink and clank around us. Midway through the song, the rhythmic rug is pulled and time expands and contracts as we fall into some expanse of new space.
“I Feel Love” … “I Feel Space” … “I Feel Goose”? In some ways, Mon Goose’s single is an homage to space-disco luminaries Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, Bjorn Tørske, Todd Terje, and others. So for its makers, it’s both a tremendous honor and an absolute thrill to hear Lindstrøm remix “I Feel Goose” — in a way that only he ever could. Lindstrøm’s take on the track features his trademark dreamy danceability, calling to mind his earlier work as much as his most recent offerings. Leaning on the original track’s plucky arpeggiation, Lindstrøm’s steady kick and fluid bassline keep us moving while an imaginative re-harmonization of the original melody lifts us to new places, higher and deeper. Just when it feels things might be winding down, the remix really takes off, transposing up, up, and up toward a euphoric crescendo.
MUSIC VIDEO
Goosy Lucy
Shot on film directed and edited by Anastasiia Duvallie, with dancing by Doron Perk.
“GOOSY LUCY” is a road trip of a song: sprawling and horizontal … steady but ever in motion … scenery changing by the mile. Spring-reverbed body slaps set the tempo, then give way to a tight drumset that dodges and slips around the beat, nodding slightly toward the brilliant collaboration between Moritz Von Oswald and Tony Allen. Bursts of melody from a distorted Wurlitzer and plucked piano punctuate the groove as a bassline sneaks in and settles the song into a slightly techno-ish polyrhythmic dance, taking us eventually to a coastline where waves of decaying, tape-delayed synths and arpeggiated guitar wash over and carry us off into an ocean.
MUSIC VIDEO
Don’t See Me
Written, directed, and edited by Lucio Castro / Starring Derek de Koff, the Glob Mother and Lazy Boy by Felix Beaudry
“DON’T SEE ME” is the group’s debut single. It’s a slow-burning dance, propelled by Moroder-ish analog sequencers intertwined with live guitar, percussion, and drums. Constantly morphing pads bloom and spiral around a driving, contemplative bassline that steers us toward dark, ecstatic breakthroughs.