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Kevin Michael

Music is my greatest joy and my greatest torment.

About Me

Kevin is a multi-instrumentalist/composer/performer, an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music and is a music instructor at the university level.Award winning Celtic CD 'Kevin Michael - Coming Home' released in 2004 on Statue Records, Los Angeles. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kmichael Kevin's newest CD project 'Spiritu Aeternum' is in the works and should be available in stores sometime in 2008.Kevin has spent centuries on the road with various musical groups and has played numerous international shows. He is the owner of a recording studio and has produced/engineered recording projects for various artists.Kevin's recently completed written works include: 12 Chakras and 72 Melakartas of Indian Carnatic Music for Guitar, Modal Madness In The Quartal Portal (a study of modal improvisation as applied to quartal harmonic structures) Tempus Continuum (a study demonstrating the application and counting of poly-rhythmic structures in music using superimposed incremental subdivisions of a circle), and musical transcriptions of compositions by artists as diverse as Paganini, Bach, Chet Atkins, Miles Davis, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.In September 2004, Kevin transcribed the guitar scores of the legendary John McLaughlin's 3 DVD master class on jazz improvisation 'This Is The Way I Do It'. Excerpts of the scores were published in Guitar Player magazine. The complete scores for all 12 Chapters can be downloaded at www.johnmclaughlin.com
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Member Since: 3/21/2005
Band Website: kevinmichaelmusic.com
Influences: A few of my musical influences - in no particular order: John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Michael Hedges, Mozart, Bach, Paganini, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Shakti, John Fogerty, James Taylor, Neil Young, Burton Cummings, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Yes, Return To Forever, David Gilmour, Andres Segovia, Doyle Dykes, Phil Keaggy, Gary Moore, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Steve Howe, Neils Henning Orsted Pedersen, Carlos Santana, Allan Holdsworth, Frank Zappa, Sting, Chet Atkins, Bela Fleck, Branford Marsalis, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Steely Dan, Pat Martino, Zakir Hussain, Trilok Gurtu, Oscar Peterson, Robin Trower, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Les Paul, Ravi Shankar, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Ian Anderson, Paco DeLucia, more to come...
Type of Label: Indie