Mr Bongo releasing album by incognito Melbourne jazz-funk group The Pro-Teens

“Cinematic soul, hip hop-guided funk breaks, vivid instrumental textures and film score-esque” sounds.

Mr Bongo is releasing Australian jazz-funk group The Pro-Teens’s album I Flip Every Time I Fly, this September.

Featuring thirteen members all operating via pseudonyms, the line-up includes: Libby Clique-Baité – drums, percussion, kitchen Hand; ‘Dead; Honest’ Dean Amazing – guitar, tambourine; Foz Mafia – guitar, bass, percussion; Giraffe Car Mo’Tiffe – fretted cello, dulcimer, marimba, percussion; Cing Cong – percussion; Polly ‘Golly Gosh’ Armoury – violin, yodelling; “Rave Cave” Gavin – accordion, timbale, wisdom; Lex ‘Top Knot’ Twine – percussion; Robo Pop – Kalimba, Cowbell; A Very Special Friend – bass, production; Hessian Petbeds – keys; Snooch Dodd – percussion; Dr. Easy – bim bimmer, marimba.

Originally released in a limited press by College Of Knowledge 2020; the album became a firm favourite at Mr Bongo HQ, at which point the label wanted to bring it to wider audiences.

Across its 12 tracks the collective traverses sounds including: “Cinematic soul, hip hop-guided funk breaks, vivid instrumental textures and film score-esque moods.”

Pre-order I Flip Every Time I Fly here in advance of its 3rd September release, and check out the tracklist below.

Tracklist

2. No One Understands Me (I’m OG)

3. Spray It, Don’t Say It

4. Convo

5. Peppery Weapons

6. Snooch Is Too Busy For This Shit

7. The Pro-Teens Ruined My Life

8. Ya Gotta Love This City

9. I Hate Turbulence

10. Greta Thunburg

11. Elephant On The Wall

12. Slow Fast