HAVING LISTENED TO 7 TRACKS BY MONOGEM, BY PETE RAY...

Monogem: She Can Do It Better…

Funk bites, the glow takes over,

Near Gemini and Cancer,

Where a torn supernova

Spawns vibes for the dancer 

And tunes for her to sing

With honey harmonies,

For the Monogem Ring will

Dream those sweet melodies…

Silhouette…

Enticing dance vibe

Designed

To make her move, be close:

Poetry stark in an excitable symphony,

An insistent, fidgety cacophony,

But a shadow she’ll surely follow,

In its folds she’ll surely wallow,

Leaving all doubt 

Well behind…

Follow You…

Haunting vocals echo,

Refined,

As lazy electronic beat drums

The percussion to a cacophony,

A synthesised symphony,

But she follows, she’ll yearn,

In wanting again, she’ll burn,

Craving the feel

In her mind… 

Shoes tap beyond

The megaphonic, multi-track, witch-like

Vocals, which ingrain

And a strain of a French-like accordion

Brings to the mind the romance of the Seine…

The Glow…

Vocals so tight,

Numbing, losing myself

In the noise and the night,

As the instrumental grip, 

An industrial disco trip

Grows

 And a melodic light

Glows,

So that the trip, the fall, the fright

For which my mind is 

Gunnin’,

Sets me down to hit the ground

Runnin’…

Wait and See…

Airy wraiths seduce,

Voices plaintive.

Tap shoes flick at the dumbing bass,

And the eyes, alive, are suddenly reactive…

Atmospheric, in dreams:

Hands clap a laid-back, mesmeric riff

And I wait and see…

The beat is easy, worked to induce

Me to feel not what it seems,

But then a chorus seems to uplift, 

As suspense and heavy cleavers

Thump the base and reduce

Me to gallop, thrash and drift.

And then I wait

And then I see…

Stay With Me…

Stuttering, quickening, pouring

Into the refrain:

Groovy, beguiling, tuneful,

As bass thrums

Beneath close, smooth

Vocals, which echo and shake…

Can’t seem to think on it, 

Ain’t got no words for it:

Stirred and yet stunned at it,

Unnerved, yet quite fooled by it:

The beat stays with me and drums

Inside my mind, once solemn and rueful…

Gone…

Atmosphere builds

Suggestively.

The beat excites

Addictively.

Walking on shingle, sighing,

As tracks intermingle, vying:

The vocals underlying

Decisively…

Then sensual shackles are rent,

Drums are beaten wantonly,

Clumped in abandonment,

As funk oozes, rampantly,

In thrill and contentment…

Thus, unchained with no fetters,

She’s Gone, coz she can do it better… 

Take It Slow…

I could feel it on my skin,

As rhythmic clapping offset the sensuality of it,

Which upped it to beauty

In a chorus, cupped by crescendos

And the electronic thrill…

It took me slow across my skin,

As exultant backing-track freed the ambience of it,

Which took it to serenity 

In a harmony gripped by flows

And a soporific chill…

Pete Ray

July 2016

Listening to the MONOGEM tracks listed above and how I have reacted to and thought about them…

‘The Glow’  turned my mind to Atlantic Starr, interestingly…

Lovely music…

Loved it.