Per Gessle’s birthday gift for himself and the fans!

Per Gessle presents Mono Mind!

Album release 12th of January.

Mono Mind consists of four fictive band members: Dr Robot, Cooky Carter, Bright Jones and Rain Davies. Over the last year they have released three singles, all of which have received international acclaim and entered the club and radio charts in both France and US. In US, the success includes a prestigious six-week long first position on the dance chart in the radio industry’s own magazine AllAccess, as well as top spots at iTunes Electronica and Amazon Electronica. In France, Mono Mind were nominated twice in NRJ DJ Awards 2018, in the categories “Best Group” and “The Best Club Hit Of The Year”.

Now that Mono Mind is set to release their album all over the world, we can finally reveal that it is none other than Per Gessle who is behind this secret project!

The master of pop himself comments:

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 comouter. 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.

The album is released on 12 January coinciding with Per Gessle’s 60th birthday as a gift for himself and the fans!