Per Gessle turns 60 this Saturday and wanted to celebrate in style. He releases a new album on 12th January! We have already written about Mono Mind before, but so far it was a secret project. Now it’s no secret anymore!
Mono Mind, consisting of the fictional members Dr Robot, Cooky Carter, Bright Jones and Rain Davies, has released three singles overseas during the past year, high on club and radio charts in the US and France. In the United States, the success includes a prestigious six-week first place on the dance charts in radio industry magazine AllAccess and No. 1 on both iTunes Electronica and Amazon Electronica. In France, Mono Mind was nominated in 2 categories in the NRJ DJ Awards 2018, as “Group of the Year” and for “Club Hit of the Year”.
Now Mono Mind’s album will be released all over the world and finally it can be revealed that it’s none other than Per Gessle who is behind this entire secret project!
Here is what the popmaster says:
After basically living in a recording studio for almost forty years I tried to find new ways of creating pop music. I wanted to do something I’d never done before. A new challenge. Still pop, of course (that’s in my DNA!) but created and presented in a new manner.
I started fooling around with different gadgets working with my own voice, recording in different octaves and different keys just to see what might pop up. In the end of the day it’s all about the voices. We all focus on the voices when we listen to pop music.
We didn’t use vocoders or anything like that. Instead we found ourselves spending days, even weeks “hand-painting” and “drawing” my melodylines in the computer. For some songs we created my voice in a r’n’b-fashion, others got a touch of Nine Inch Nails-desperation.
In the end you couldn’t really hear it was me singing which was a blast and felt really refreshing. So off I went creating a new little colourful band, four characters with different personalities and different kind of temper, humour and looks to represent MONO MIND. How gorgeous! I had so much fun. Still do.
CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO TO FIND OUT WHAT PER SAYS ABOUT THE PROJECT!
Follow Mono Mind on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, check their videos on YouTube and most importantly, listen to them on the usual digital platforms (Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, etc.) and sing along.