Mimi Goese (last name rhymes with ''hazy'') is an American professional musician.
Career
Goese was the
vocalist
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for
dream pop
Dream pop (also typeset as dreampop) is a subgenre of alternative rock and neo-psychedelia that emphasizes atmosphere and sonic texture as much as pop melody. Common characteristics include breathy vocals, dense productions, and effects such as ...
band
Hugo Largo
Hugo Largo was an American musical group formed in 1984, known for their unique lineup: two bass guitars, a violin and singer/performance artist Mimi Goese. Their sound has been characterized as art rock, dream pop, ambient and avant-rock.
Hist ...
.
Solo
Under the mononym "Mimi", she released a solo album, ''Soak'', on the
Luaka Bop
Luaka Bop is a New York–based record label founded by musician David Byrne, former lead singer and guitarist for the art rock– new wave band Talking Heads. What began with Byrne making cassettes of his favorite Tropicália tracks for his fri ...
label, with contributions from French
record producer
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Hector Zazou
Hector Zazou (11 July 1948 – 8 September 2008) was a prolific French composer and record producer who worked with, produced, and collaborated with an international array of recording artists. He worked on his own and other artists' albums, inclu ...
and some tracks produced by former Hugo Largo bandmate
Hahn Rowe
Hahn Rowe is an American violinist, guitarist, composer, and engineer/producer, involved in a wide range of projects. He also performs using the stage name Somatic.
Career
Originally a violinist and guitarist with New York City dream-poppers H ...
.
She released a
cover of
Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "
I Put a Spell on You
"I Put a Spell on You" is a 1956 song written and composed by Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, whose own recording of it was selected as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It was also included in Robert ...
" as a single.
Collaborations
Two collaborations with
Moby, tracks "
Into the Blue" and "When It's Cold I'd Like to Die",
appear on Moby's 1995 album ''
Everything Is Wrong''. The latter was heard during the
closing credits
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of ''
The Sopranos
''The Sopranos'' is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster, portraying his difficulties as he tries to balance ...
'' episode "
Join the Club" and the season 1 and 4 finale of the Netflix series ''
Stranger Things''.
In 2006, Goese collaborated and performed onstage with the "mutantrumpeter"
Ben Neill on a project called XIX. In 2010, the duo collaborated on a musical theater piece titled "Persephone", which was premiered at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music's 2010 Next Wave Festival. Goese and Neill were commissioned by BAM to create the staged work (co-starring actress
Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981) is an American actress. Born and raised in New York City, Stiles began acting at the age of 11 as part of New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Her film debut was a small role in ''I'' ''Love Yo ...
) with multimedia company Ridge Theater. "Persephone" With a book by Tony Award-winning playwright
Warren Leight, it grew out of the 19th-century musical themes that Goese and Neill were exploring. An album featuring music from the project, ''Songs for Persephone'', was released by Ramseur Records in August 2011.
She also collaborated with Leonor Almanza and Amalio Martinez, with all three contributing vocals (sung in English and Spanish) to the song "Lonely Traveler/La Enorme Distancia" on the 2008 compilation album ''Songs Across Walls of Separation'', released by Norwegian label Kirkelig Kulturverksted.
Her most recent project was a collaboration with
Cornish band the Ascension Plan, guesting on two tracks, "Buoy" and "Life (You Are)", and a one-off performance at the
Minack Theatre
The Minack Theatre ( kw, Gwaryjy Minack) is an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea. The theatre is at Porthcurno, from Land's End in Cornwall, England. The season runs each year from May ...
in
Porthcurno
Porthcurno ( kw, Porthkornow, Porthcornow, meaning ''"pinnacle cove"'', see below) is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast of Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom. It is the main settlement in a civil and an ec ...
on May 2, 2014.
Other endeavors
Goese appeared in the 1996
short film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
"Black Kites", directed by
Jo Andres.
Although she continues to perform occasionally, she also teaches classes in
performing arts.
References
External links
*
Mimi Goese interviewat HearsayMagazine.co.uk
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American women singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women