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Mike Pride
| "Local hero Mike
Pride is no doubt the only musician to ever play with Anthony Braxton and
tour with punk legends MDC (Millions of Dead Cops)." - Bruce Lee Gallenter
(Downtown Music Gallery) "Drummer Mike Pride stokes the furnace with fire, while never stinting on finesse." - Time Out NY "Mike Pride’s drumming, was particularly ferocious and at times bordered on a death metal intensity; it was amazing that the rest of the band even managed to keep up with him." - live4metal.com "Mike Pride is the kind of musician that makes the current NYC improv underground so vital. He's always challenging himself with new situations and breaking down barriers between different scenes, intermingling avant-rock, avant-jazz, free improv, and miscellaneous wackiness in a countless stream of projects." - Michael Anton Parker "You can almost see drummer Mike Pride having a catharsis." - Bryan Barge (Sylusmagazine.com) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Percussionist/composer Mike Pride (b. 1979) was raised in the Portland, Maine area. He has been performing & composing music since he was a child. While living in Maine, Mike studied with Les Harris, Jr., Bill Street and Matt Wilson, performed with legendary composer & jazz educator David Baker, experimental, shock-rockers Ned Muffleburger & the DSL's, and co-lead the new music ensemble Imaginary Quartet. Mike moved to New York City in the year 2000 where he studied briefly with drum & bass master, Amir Ziv. Mike then began studying with the legendary percussionist/healer/teacher, Professor, Milford Graves. Since his move to NYC, Mike has performed and recorded throughout the U.S. and North America, Europe, Asia, & Australia with many wonderful musicians including: Aarktica, Anthony Braxton, Califone, Daniel Carter, Eugene Chadbourne, Nels Cline, Andrew d'Angelo, Jim Denley (Australia), Trevor Dunn, Brandon Evans, Ken Filiano, Michael Formanek, Milford Graves, Curtis Hasselbring, Mark Helias, Fred Hess, Vijay Iyer, Haino Keiji's FUSHITSUSHA, Briggan Krauss, Frank Lowe, Mat Maneri, MDC (Millions Of Dead Cops), Tony Malaby, Sabir Mateen, Butch Morris, Pale Horse & Rider, William Parker, Matana Roberts, Perry Robinson, Sonny Simmons, Chris Speed, Steve Swell, Cuong Vu, Matthew Welch, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright & Otomo Yoshihide. Since his move in 2000, Mike Pride has been featured on over 50 recordings. His own recordings have been released by such diverse and cutting edge record labels as Big Sleep Records; Utech Records; NotTwo Jazz (Poland); Darla Records; Parallactic Records; Doubt Music (Japan); Public Eyesore; Sudden Death (Canada); Accretions; Sachimay Interventions; & Funhole Records. Mike has been part of many music festivals all over the world including: Block Island Music Fest 2002 (Rhode Island), CMJ Music Festival 2002, 2005 (NYC), Improvised & Otherwise 2002-2004 (Brooklyn), Now Now Jazz Festival 2003 (Sydney, Australia), Spring Scream 2003-2006 (Kentig, Taiwan), Shi Mo Tsu Ki 2003 (Brooklyn), Bud Fest 2003 (Prague), North By Northeast 2003 (Toronto), K-Town Festival 2003 (Copenhagen), Holidays In The Sun 2003, 2004 (UK), Angry Fish Music Festival 2004 (Maine), Future Of Experimental Rock Festival 2005 (NYC), Dumbo Arts Festival 2005 (Brooklyn) & Foo Fest (Providence, RI) among others. Mike is currently involved in many projects and leads/composes for many ensembles including: The MPTHREE (new-music power trio) Dynamite Club (conceptual avant-rock/performance-noise) From Bacteria To Boys (Pride’s own “Statement Musics” for traditional jazz trio setting) Period (cyclical momentum guitar & drums duo) BIG F***ING SELL OUT Big Band (big band performing Pride’s serialized and “Statement Musics”) Snuggle/Stencil (prog-rock power trio) Mike has composed many chamber works, music for the MTV Production "Room Raiders" & the independent film “Estua Perpetua”. www.mikepride.com www.myspace.com/michaelpride |
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