Kinetic Element

Mike Visaggio is a multi-keyboard artist in Richmond VA and has completed a solo album of keyboard-centered material blending prog rock, classic rock and new age styles. Now joined by Michael Murray on drums and Matt Harris on bass, Mike Visaggio & Kinetic Element are playing out at selected venues and aiming to shake up the music scene with some classic prog/classic/new age style thunder. They are also rehearsing music for a first band CD, which would be Mike's second.MIKE VISAGGIO .... a MULTI-KEYBOARD player who stayed away from the music business too long, returning in 2000 after a 20-year absence , and now with his fourth band in Richmond, KINETIC ELEMENT, with MATT HARRIS on bass and MICHAEL MURRAY on drums performing the Starship Universe CD along with new originals and some surprising classic rock and classic prog covers.Mike is the former keyboardist of Billy Falcon's Burning Rose, a singer-songwriter rock band of the late 1970s that made three LPs and an EP on Manhattan Records, United Artists and MCA. He also performed with The Strokers, a well known Richmond band. Mike has taken a somewhat oblique approach to incorporating his Christian worldview into his music so that people who love prog and classic rock can enjoy it whether they are believers or not. Over the last two years Mike has been building a name for himself in the prog world, having at present 30 reviews of Starship Universe, many of which can be read in The Reviews So Far in the Blogs section or at www.sonicbids.com/MikeVisaggio, the band's Sonicbids EPK.In this day when progressive rock is coming back out of the shadows thanks to the Internet, Kinetic Element has been performing for diverse audiences and has seen firsthand how prog crosses all ethnic and age demographics. When prog is heard, it is loved. People who never heard the great prog bands of the 70s, or today's awesome prog artists, have reacted with enthusiastic acceptance of the band's vintage prog ethos on hearing Kinetic Element in concert.P.S. Anyone interested in purchasing a CD after hearing the four pieces: Please e-mail Mike at [email protected]. OR YOU CAN GET IT AT CD BABY by hitting the CD BABY button. You can also find it at MELODIC REVOLUTION and NIGHTMARE RECORDS (two of Mike's top friends!) and can get legal downloads at iTunes, MusicIsHere and 34 other download sites. Just google "Mike Visaggio" to find them!P.S.: The CD has been favorably reviewed on ProgressiveEars.com (Thanks Sean!) and Prognaut.com (Thanks Ron!) and 28 other places online!..This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5 .... -- -- -- -- CDBABY LINK for MIKE VISAGGIO: Starship Universe -- I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)