Mike Barden
New piano music for serious chill time.
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Full Circle 763298 Full Circle 763298
Meant What I Said Meant What I Said
Funky, smooth jazz piano tune dipped in a rock-guitar crunch coating. Yummy.
Fat Monday (Double Decker) Fat Monday (Double Decker)
Fat, juicy piano Nu-Blues over a lush, complex bed of funk, electronica and nasty rock guitar.
What's Real What's Real
Grace Under Pressure (Turbulent Calm) Grace Under Pressure (Turbulent Calm)
“Grace Under Pressure (Turbulent Calm)” is the CDs first move toward a darker sound, with percussion, synth layers and a minor tonality; it is presenting the paradox and challenge of maintaining inner peace when anxiety is right there to challenge it
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New piano music for serious chill time.
Mike's original tunes draw from New Age, Acid Jazz, and Trip-Hop styles, featuring his distinctive free-wheeling, improvisatory style. Whether you're in the mood for some unaccompanied piano or more of an updated metro feel, this music is the Chill Pill.Band/artist history
Mike Barden is recognized in Wisconsin as a powerful and versatile pianist, capable of performing jazz, classical, and rock styles with equal fluency. His original piano compositions reflect his diverse musical background, and feature a free-wheeling, improvisatory approach.
His most recent solo CD release, "Pieces of Peace", features his distinctive style of contemplative improvisation as well as contemporary influences of jazz, blues, and "downbeat" rhythms.
As a performer, he continues to play regularly across Wisconsin, as a solo artist and with his jazz-pop ensemble, Uptown.
Over his career he has worked with the Neville Brothers, Joe Piscopo's SNL reunion show featuring Victoria Jackson and Father Guido Sarducci, Joan Rivers, Maynard Ferguson, Greg Koch, Janet Planet, Tom Theabo, Tom Washatka, and Tim Dorsey.
Mike currently owns and operates Chain-O-Lakes Recording, through which he has produced many local artists, as well as his own recordings.Have you performed in front of an audience?I play around Wisconsin as a solo pianist and with various jazz groups.
Your musical influences
Radiohead, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Chick Corea, Michel Petrucciani, Chopin, BachWhat equipment do you use?
Roland RD-700 Digital Piano, if a good grand isn't available.
Waupaca, WI
USA
ID
909873
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hey congrats on being number 6 on the acid jazz charts I m a big fan of your work I hope you get signed soon peace jerra
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