Mimi Goese (last name rhymes with hazy) is the former vocalist for college rock band Hugo Largo.[1] Two collaborations with Moby, Into the Blue and When It's Cold I'd Like to Die [2] appear on the latter's album Everything Is Wrong. (The latter song appears during the closing credits of The Sopranos episode "Join the Club".) She also appeared in the 1996 short film "Black Kites", directed by Jo Andres.
Under the name Mimi (no last name) she has released one solo album, Soak, on the Luaka Bop label, which French record producer Hector Zazou worked on.[3] She also released a single in which she covered Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You". As well as occasionally continuing to perform, she now also gives classes in performing arts.
In 2006, Goese collaborated and performed on stage with the 'mutantrumpeter' Ben Neill on a project called XIX. Later, in 2010, Ben and Mimi collaborated on a musical theater piece entitled "Persephone" which was premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 2010. Goese and Neill were commissioned by BAM to create the staged work with multimedia company Ridge Theater. "Persephone" co-starred actress Julia Stiles with book by Tony award winning playwright Warren Leight, and grew out of the 19th-century themes that Goese and Neill were exploring in the music. An album featuring music from the project "Songs For Persephone" will be released in Fall 2011 by Ramseur Records.
"Mimi’s voice conjures up a long plummet through white light and space. It’s like a parachutist still in free fall, who seems briefly weightless and adrift in an ocean of air." -Melody Maker