mike ian: news

Stores now open for downloads or cds!

Thank you!

I am very excited to announce the release of my latest cd entitled "Puzzle Pieces". This project was from a select collection of rock, pop, vocal tunes that have built up over the years and seemed to be working their way towards a consistent sounding collection. Some of these songs date back to a period when I was putting together the "Randori" rock project with good friend Jason Pascoe in 2006. A few riffs date even further back! This collection may seem like a departure from what I have been known to produce. And it is. I purposely tried to put together a collection of very universal, friendly, uplifting, commercial songs that were not too hard to digest both musically and lyrically. Coming from a jazzy, progressive-rock, 10-minute epic musical background, this was definitely a stretch for me. Heck, there are songs under 4 minutes! This also marks the first time I've ever put myself out there as a lead vocalist! Certainly another stretch from my instrumental comfort zone. And as a vocalist comes the need for lyrics. Again, I thought I'd try my hand at writing my own words to these fun tunes. Not an easy task for me by any means. But, with some help from my loving soul-mate, Susan, which, as you will hear, was and still is a wonderful, positive inspiration to most of the words penned on this cd, I was able to get some semblance of order to the lyrics on this cd.

A question I seem to be getting a lot of from the few folks that have heard this cd is, "did I play everything on this thing?" Well, yes. And produced and engineered and mastered and did artwork and who knows what else! I guess I do wear many hats. I just eat, sleep, breath all things musical every minute I can. I've been playing music and dabbling with gear ever since I was a wee little tike. In this day and age of somewhat affordable studio equipment, internet, owners manuals, listening, and a lot of late nights, it was possible for me to put out such a product. Of course it helps having no deadline and no budget. Just pure fun and desire.

So with all of that being said, I hope you enjoy my musical efforts if only for a few minutes out of your day. I'll have links up shortly to CDBABY and Itunes and the like for purchase and/or download. (Cheap! - really. Just the cost of shipping basically)

Thank you all so much for taking the time!

MIKE IAN

Working on new CD entitled "Puzzle Pieces". Looking at a March release.

The new & improved "Eyeball Studios".

The Geri Mingori Band, a fun group I play with often, will be opening for YES & ASIA at Great Adventure, July 26th. Concert is free with park admission. We should be around 5:30pm.

http://www.sixflags.com/greatAdventure/events/AsiaYes.aspx

Got some pics up of the Geri Mingori Concert this past June 26th. Gig was a blast!!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30294925&l=d882654710&id=1609489699

Large gig coming up June 26th at The Shell in the Trump Marina in Atlantic City. Around 9 pm. Tickets directly for $25 (contact me. cash only), or thru ticketmaster - http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/02004291FC2260F3 Her voice has the qualities of Eva Cassidy soaring over music that has a taste of old school progressive rock, that of Pink Floyd or Peter Gabriel. For those that know my guitar equipment, I'll be bringing my full leslie guitar rig to bring these tunes to life! Check it out! Some info here: www.humanrecordz.com