Évasion (Getaway): pick a destination at random with Mondial Toboggan
Show your Orange card (the monthly pass of an older Paris) and take a seat. Évasion is a deeply French journey: one of those great summer road trips in a Corail train or a 504, of rest stops under Ricard umbrellas, of windsurfing boards and Polaroids sticking out their tongues.
Mondial Toboggan channels the 1970s–1990s to craft its retro synth-pop. An album like a postcard you never send.
Last call in Car 4
Step aboard “Wagon-Bar 1 (voiture 4) [Radio Edit]” by Mondial Toboggan. This track from Évasion turns memories of French train journeys into nostalgic instrumental synth-pop, carried by analog synthesizers.
New single: Mondial Toboggan turns a 1991 maritime disaster into a dance track
Off the coast of South Africa, August 3, 1991. The MTS Oceanos is taking on water. The ship's captain orders evacuation and leaves. Among those who stay is Moss Hills, a musician hired to play the onboard shows.
Few musicians have had their finest moment mid-shipwreck. Mondial Toboggan wrote a song about it.
“Turf in USA”: how Mondial Toboggan wrote a French racehorse into a track
Garden State Park. New Jersey, 1988.
Ourasi, France’s most beloved trotter, crosses the Atlantic to race the best American horses.
In the stands, nobody doubts it. He won’t lose.
Sugarcane Hanover hadn’t read the French papers. Ourasi lost.
That defeat became a song.
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If you want to compose like I do (I consider myself as a composer more than an instrumentalist), don’t lie to yourself, don’t try to be someone else, use your memory and musical influences from the beginning of your life until now, put them in a blender and serve us a good (non-alcoholic) cocktail.