Mocky - Goosebumps Per Minute Vol. 1 (Heavy Sheet)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

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What We Say

Put some good natured funk, summertime jazz sparkle and mellow disco delight into your wintery weekend or dance around the pool in your swimsuits if you're in the southern hemisphere, with the classy vintage bells, bygone cinematic whistles & distinctive arrangements of Mocky and his West Coast warmed, extended edit begging grooves.

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What The Release Notes Say

Following up last year’s orchestral album opus “Overtones For The Omniverse", Mocky has been releasing a number of upbeat and uplifting instrumental tracks and now collects them as "Goosebumps Per Minute, Volume 1" on classic vinyl and digital. Putting his vocals and songwriting to the side for this project, Mocky employs harps, horns, and 70’s analogue synths to provide a funky soundtrack that spreads a little of that California sunshine in the listeners direction. Built around Mocky's signature basslines and ensemble vocal arrangements that include his son Telly and his daughter Lulu, all recorded to his vintage ampex tape machine, Mocky did away with the normal metronomic BPM calculations in modern production and instead measured his music in "GPM" (the tempo at which music transmits Goosebumps) - and on top of a multitude of summery bass, drums & strings perfection, Vicky Farewell drops a blistering Rhodes solo on "Flutter" and Carlos Niño lends a percussive hand on the sublime "Iridescence”. Todd M. Simon handles the horn duties, and Liza Wallace infuses the dance tracks with live harp which recalls the floating approach of Alice Coltrane. Titles like "Refractions", "Wavelengths" or "Conduction" are hinting at a scientific approach to creating the conditions for "Goosebumps Per Minute" - his own calculus for the timing of how and when to hit and strum the things in his studio to make it raw & funky.

The songs were also inspired by his time hanging out at the Goldline bar in LA’s Highland Park. “Throughout the pandemic it was the one place I could go and sit outside and hear incredible music as I listened to my friend DJ Phonecalls playing from the Goldline's vinyl collection. He would be dropping these uplifting funk and disco cuts - and at the end of the night I would go home to my studio and make a track and upload it to my Bandcamp and the streaming services immediately ... It reminded me of my time in Tokyo's vinyl bars so "Goosebumps Per Minute" owes a lot to that inspiring culture as well“.

CREDITS:

Liza Wallace / Harp
Todd M. Simon / Horns
Carlos Niño / Percussion on Iridescence
Vicky Farewell / Fender Rhodes solo on Flutter
Molly Rogers / Strings on Conduction
Mocky / Drums, Bass, Piano, Synths, Percussion, Guitar, Flute Vocals by Mocky, Telly Salole and Lulu Salole
Group Vocals on Glide by Fi Campbell, Leslie Feist, Todd Dahlhoff

Produced by Mocky
Composed by Dominic” Mocky” Salole
Published by Heavy Sheet Music/Warner Chappell

Recorded at Ego’s Landing Studios, Los Angeles on an Ampex C440 tape machine
A1-A3 Mixed by Renaud Letang, A4-B5 Mixed by Ben Kane

Mastered by Emilie Daelemans
Executive Production by Jürgen Söder
Cover artwork by Rand Sevilla

P+C Heavy Sheet Productions 2022
Contact: management@mockyrecordings.com / www.mockyrecordings.com / www.heavysheet.com

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