Good Luck Have Fun Mother Falcon

• 1 Kid 03:26
• 2 Naked + Alive 05:20
• 3 Quiet Mind 05:21
• 4 You Are 03:01
• 5 Water 04:38
• Starnation Suite
• 6 I. E-Sports 03:59
• 7 II. BoxeR 03:48
• 8 III. Oceanside (White-Ra) 04:51
• 9 IV. Gameplay 03:54
• 10 V. He's A God (NaNiwa) 03:21
• 11 VI. Day[9] 02:20
• 12 VII. Good People 02:45
• Total Runtime 46:44

Info for Good Luck Have Fun

Indie orchestra Mother Falcon explores new frontiers in its major label debut Good Luck Have Fun. Featuring concise, hook-rich arrangements and experimental instrumental soundscapes, the album is at once accessible and adventurous, a true reflection of the “exuberant” (USA Today) Austin-based ensemble.

Born of Mother Falcon’s tireless pursuit of radiant new music, Good Luck Have Fun is sure to delight both longtime fans and discerning tastemakers.

„Viola player Wil Baptiste and violinist Kev Marcusboth come from Florida, and have done an impressive job here mixing classical tendencies with modern R&B, hip hop, rap and jazz. You get some excieitng and dramatic caprices with a synth groove on “Stereotypes” while dramatic climaxes and panoramic sweeps make “Day 2” sound like a soundtrack to Lord of the Rings. A mix of soul and baroque works wonderfully on “Shaker” and hip hop drumming teams with a string crescendo for a wondrous “Wal On By.” Pharoahe Monch brings some rap vocals to an urban “Invisible” and Robert Glaspers’s keyboards team with Kandace Springs’ luscious voice on ‘Stay Clear.” A journey that mixes soul and classical on “Send Me A Sign” includes Melanie Fiona, and even a bit of Indie p op jumpos into the scene on “Addiction.” This is a clever and creative collaboration. Can’t wait to see it in concert!“ (George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly)

The team Mother Falcon is made up of a Andrew Fontenot/ts-voc, Nick Gregg/voc-g-cel-mand, Tamir Kalipa/voc-acc-p, a four piece string section, a rhythm team of Isaac Winburne/dr and Dusty Rhodes/b and a handfulof other horns, strings and percussionists with voices. This album takes you on a journey with childrens voices and world rhythms as well as indie sounds with strings and rhythms. Jigs and strings are on “Boxer” while a synth beat with pizzicato pickings take you on a journey during “Oceanside.”Some eerie bowings of the strings as well as electrical effects create an almost ambient atmosphere on “Day” with the whole album feels a bit stream of conscious in its delivery.

Mother Falcon

Mother Falcon
In June 2013, seventeen young musicians piled into two vans and drove from their hometown of Austin to a brownstone in Queens, where they took up residency for a month. It was Mother Falcon’s first trip outside of Texas and another turning point in a very unlikely story.

Years before, when he started what became Mother Falcon, it never crossed cellist Nick Gregg’s mind that his goal to make playing cello as cool as playing quarterback at his football obsessed high school (alma mater of Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees) would get anywhere. Jamming on original material after school with fellow orchestra students at Westlake High was fun, but not radical and certainly not goal oriented. Yet, over months, word of this orchestra jam session spread and the group, now named Mother Falcon after a misheard TV overdub from Die Hard (“Yippee-ki-ay Mother Falcon!), began to include people from McCallum High as well. Before any of its members had graduated, Mother Falcon was featured on the cover of the Austin Chronicle and was playing gigs all over town. While most of them were still teens, Mother Falcon, now numbering up to twenty two players, had become one of Austin’s most popular and beloved “bands” with the release of Still Life, their debut EP of classical-crossover pop songs, and another Austin Chronicle cover story. The next year their first full length, Alhambra, saw major local airplay and a series of sold out local shows. Somehow, while its members were focused on being college sophomores, this wild idea of being as cool as a quarterback had made Nick Gregg the founder of one of the coolest bands in one of the world’s coolest music cities. Yet, as Mother Falcon won multiple Austin Music Awards, collaborated with Austin legends like Alejandro Escovedo and Christopher Cross and ventured to Houston and Denton, it still didn’t seem plausible that such a huge ensemble could make an impact outside of Austin.

As the bulk of the collective’s musicians approached college graduation in 2013, this unlikely indie orchestra was at a crossroads. With the need for employment looming, perhaps the easiest choice would be to backburner the band, maybe keep playing around Austin until everyone spun off on their own: grad school, jobs, other bands. Mother Falcon, by now a community with deep ties (among them two pairs of siblings and several relationships begun in childhood) made a tougher choice, committing to a new album and an unusual strategy of moving to other cities for a month at a time to cut costs of touring such a large group. After making a huge splash at SXSW 2013, second album You Knew dropped in May 2013, strongly impacted national radio and gained major support from NPR. June residencies at Joe’s Pub in New York and Littlefield in Brooklyn were followed by residencies at The Echo in Los Angeles and Soda Bar in San Diego. Subsequent national tours found Mother Falcon unexpectedly selling out small clubs all over the country within months of their first tentative steps outside of Austin. Nick Gregg was now undeniably as cool as a quarterback.

Two years later, Mother Falcon return with their third full-length album Good Luck Have Fun, slated for release August 14th on BitCandy Digital and Punctum Records. Seven years, two albums and hundreds of shows on from Westlake High, this unlikely indie orchestra takes a leap into the unknown, blowing up their usual way of composing and recording together in a conscious effort to push themselves into new stylistic and sonic realms.

As such, Good Luck Have Fun doubles down on both sides of Mother Falcon. The adventurousness is more adventurous, with fully half the album comprised of experimental instrumental soundscapes composed as the score to an upcoming documentary about competitive gaming. Inspired by Bowie’s Low, 60s improv iconoclasts AAM, Koji Kondo’s score for Majora’s Mask and the psychedelic drone of Fuck Buttons, the instrumental pieces ebb and flow in tension between unresolved crescendos and throbbing, jagged minimalism. Conversely, the rest of the album may be Mother Falcon’s most accessible music ever, with a stronger emphasis on rhythm, concise arrangements that move the vocals to the fore, lyrics grounded in universal themes and a wealth of hooks, upon hooks, upon hooks.

Booklet for Good Luck Have Fun