|Keyboardist, Vocalist and Composer Mark Gleed is a founding member of the Los Angeles-based Progressive Rock group SOMA, currently recording a new CD featuring Guy Eckstine, Allan Holdsworth, and Tony Levin. He also is an accomplished Music Producer, Photographer, Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Art Director. He has designed numerous CD covers for independent labels, major labels and Bill Graham Productions... including for Grammy Award Winner HUBERT LAWS/"Moondance", Grammy Award Nominee ALLAN HOLDSWORTH/"The Sixteen Men Of Tain" and "Against The Clock", JANE GETTER/"See Jane Run" and numerous covers for the bands ROLLOVER and SOMA, among others. He has also over the years designed numerous corporate logos, has letterhead designs published in over 60 countries, has hand drawn concert posters for local Los Angeles and Chicago bands and is working on a book of laser manipulated photographs he has taken in the Amazon Jungle and of the Incan ruins at Machu Pichu in the Andes Mountains of Peru. An Aquarian, Mark was born on January 24th in Lake Forest, Illinois and is a graduate of the University of Southern California Film and Television School. He also has a BA in Journalism from USC and conducted post-graduate studies at UCLA, UCNorthridge, UCFullerton and Otis Parsons Los Angeles. He is also is a graduate of the Record Engineering program at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College in Hollywood. Mark has been playing piano and drums since he was eight years old and has studied Bel Canto, practices Kundalini and Iyengar Yoga and is into Acupuncture and herbs, Soul travel, the Mahanta, Eckankar, Rama, Rumi, the Akashic Records, Nikola Tesla, Paramahansa Yogananda, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Giza Plateau, what's under the left paw of the Sphinx, Atlantis, the Etruscans, Lemuria, Edgar Cayce, Richard C. Hoaglund, Cydonia and the face on Mars, speed Chess, the sixties, Jimi Hendrix, pop art, WLS Silver Dollar Surveys, airchecks, Bora Bora, Portmeiron, the Pacific Coast Highway, Big Sur, Pebble Beach, Brett Wetson, Cole Wetson, Wallace Neff, Leandro V. Locsin, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Franco Maria Ricci, Luis Bunuel, Terry Gilliam, early Woody Allen, the Firesign Theatre, Bill Hicks, Lewis Black, Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Richard Brautigan, Gary Snyder, Edith Wharton, T. Coraghessan Boyle, G.K. Chesterton, Flashman, John Train, Ralph Steadman, Hunter S. Thompson, A. M. Cassandre, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Yaacov Agam, Dale Chihuly, Lino Sabattini, Nam June Paik, Bob Moog, John Oram, Veruschka, Issey Miyake, Lamborghini Muiras, pre-CBS Fender amps, dual valve tube compressors, Trident A-Range mixing consoles, EMT 250 digital reverbs, 60's underground newspapers, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, the Fillmore West, the Avalon Ballroom, Frankincense, Nag Champa, Loch Dhu, Gratin Dauphinois, Kitch'n Cook'd Maui Potato Chips, Fortnum and Mason Wheatbread Cookies, Hazelnut Torte, Yogi tea, Hibiscus tea, nuclear free zones, good friends, good music, long walks, lost treasure, pulchritudinous women and psychedelic artists Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Gary Grimshaw, Carl Lundgren, Wes Wilson, Rick Griffin, David Singer, Martin Sharp, Tadanori Yokoo and Peter Max... Here are some examples of my photography...|Here are some of my illustrations... |
