Mondo Drag Working on Fourth Album; Playing This Weekend
It’s an older picture below — I don’t think they’ve had time to fire up the lightshow for a new promo shot as yet, and fair enough — but the prospect of a new Mondo Drag record is a welcome one regardless. The SF-based prog weirdos — or is that weird proggos? — are currently writing material for what will be their fourth long-player and the follow-up to 2016’s very-much-right-on The Occultation of Light (review here), and they’ve announced the addition of Astra‘s Conor Riley on bass. They’ll play new songs this Saturday at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland, where they’ll share the stage with Blow and Glitter Wizard for what’s sure to be a righteous time.
They’ve done sporadic shows and stuff since 2017, but I have to wonder what was behind their “hiatus” in the first place. They seemed to have some pretty good momentum coming off touring for The Occultation of Light. Was it burnout from too much road time? Disillusion with the underground tour experience? Not enough weed candy? What’s the deal? Maybe when the time comes I’ll bother founding vocalist/keyboardist John Gamino and find out.
Until then, I’m glad to know there’s progress being made. Here’s what they had to say about it on thee social medias:
After a nearly two year hiatus, we have crawled out of our sonic cocoon and re-emerged onto this plane of existence for the next phase of our life cycle.
We are excited to announce that talented multi-instrumentalist and composer Conor Riley (Astra, Birth) has joined the ensemble as bassist. We’ve been holed up in our West Oakland studio for months working on material for our fourth album and we’ll be debuting some of it at our show this Saturday night at Eli’s Mile High Club.
Stay tuned for news on some upcoming US festival appearances!
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Saturday, August 17
Glitter Wizard
Mondo Drag
Blow
Tickets: https://wizardmondoblow.eventbrite.com
Mondo Drag are:
John Gamino – Keyboards & Vocals
Nolan Girard – Guitar & Synthesizer
Jake Sheley – Guitar
Ventura Garcia – Drums
Conor Riley – Bass
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