Recorded in Robert Hunter-Rivera's bedroom over a three week period spanning 2001-2002, Exploring Fantasies was in some ways both a departure and a return to form for Raúl Picaporte. He had just criss-crossed the USA with a bastard muse, and had many a song bottled up to show as a result. Distorted riffs, abused woodwinds, metal pots'n'pans, alarm clocks, and cheesy synths adorn this evocative record, oh and Raúl and his guitar too!

Featuring jangly guitars, upfront vocals, thick and spacey harmonies, and smart, soulful song-writing, Or The Gun represents The Moviegoers' most collaborative and complete piece of work to date. It's semi-soft and medium-hard.

Before they started The Moviegoers, Richard Hunter-Rivera, Jessica Monday, and Jordan Heimer, along with Robert Hunter-Rivera, called themselves Your Future in Plastics, and they put out this EP, The Code is Obvious. Recorded over the course of one college semester, this EP is NOT beautifully digitally re-mastered but is instead presented in it's unadulterated lo-fi glory. The original track list contains a rare cover of Raúl Picaporte's masterful rock'n'roll album opener, "Dreaming or in Delirium?".

Harmonicas, a Buchla synthesizer, and electric buzzes are featured on this short suite of instrumental tape music. Organic and ambient, there's nothing else like it on Mangoose.

Another epic lo-fi musical collection from Raúl. Over two hours of music across three movments, Conversations with Prostitutes is considered by some to be Raúl's deepest, darkest, and most complete work. Themes of love and sex abound. It's romantic stuff kiddies! Written, recorded, and mixed by Mr. Picaporte while living and studying in Hong Kong.

A musical journey through time-zones. Listening to Meg's Bistro is probably a lot like riding the Trans-Siberian Railway from start to finish. That's a lot of time zones! OK, it might not be that interesting. Perhaps Mangoose's quintessential release, Meg's Bistro features appearances by The Jinich Brothers, Jay Brockman, Richard and Robert Hunter-Rivera,and the inimitable flow of Manuel Santini.

Armed with a dictaphone and a laptop, Raúl Picaporte presents to us Leaving What Was Left Behind, a surprise and fun packed collection...or uhh a "sonic-notebook" of sorts...it's the music he's hearing in his head silly, don't you understand?

A greek tragedy. A latin lover. As day becomes night and night becomes day, will our hero break away from his fate? Not even time will tell.

A magical musical minimalist masterpiece, in which our hero has a date with destiny but tragically finds himself locked out of the building, or as they say in France: le batiment. Breakfast, anyone?

A 4-track epic tale of a man inside a machine. His legs are flailing, but he's going no where. That is, until a friendly pirate offers Jay a ride...climb aboard mateeeys. We here at Mangoose consider Homogenous to be Jay's masterpiece. At least so far...comes with CDR copy of cassette.

Described by my Dad to be Mangoose's "White Album" of sorts, Songs for a Girl is an epic collection of tunes dedicated to all the lovely ladies out there. Yeah, you know who you are...Anyway, SFG is an eclectic (I mean it this time) collection of songs featuring songs and performances by Raul Picaporte, Jay Brockman, Richard Hunter-Rivera, and Robert Hunter-Rivera.

A quintuple A-side singles release, written and recorded in July of 2002 in Mexico City.

Parents! Listen! At long last, here is the album you've been waiting for! Finally, music designed for your little ones! That they may learn and have fun! That they may get distracted so that you can carry on with those oh so important thoughts of yours! Divided into two distinct but equally FUN-tastisc sessions, this album will be both your and your child's best friend for countless years to come!

Recorded during the Summer of 2001 in Searcy, Arkansas and Shreveport, Louisiana, On a Wire (ANYTIME) represents the first full-length collaboration between Jay and Richard Hunter-Rivera of The Moviegoers. Armed with a pair of laptops, a couple beat boxes, some cheap microphones, a synthesizer, various guitars, and an air conditioner, the duo put in 16 hour days of music making for three weeks, and this is a record of what happened. By the way, don't ever go to Arkansas in July.

The first collaboration between Jay Brockman and Raul Picaporte. Recorded to four-track in Jay's humid San Juan rooftop apartment. When they first showed it to the rest of us, we were floored. In a way, Popsicle Illusion started it all...