Artist description Mike Burn is presenting here productions, in which he was involved somehow, his band, from friends working in Frankfurt/Germany and collaboration partners from all over the world. Thank you for listening !

Music Style Fearlessly experimental and eclectic music.

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Artist History FRIENDSHIP FIRST - AGAINST RACISM Kate Cassidy - mikeburn and friends - the story (by Gabriel Herbst) Mike Burn landed in the rehearsal room of the underground band Secret Society in 1985 and plugged his Rockman into the mixing desk with a small adapter. After the first session, he was the new guitarist. Mikes' playing at that time was already deemed exceptional! Jimmy Jones, a fantastic American singer with whom we toured extensively, was telephoning around one day and without saying a word, he flew home to the empire. Harry Hopeless, an endowed local singer and guitarist, became our lead singer. We still sought an additional guitarist and/or singer. Contingently through Harry's addiction, we split up at the end of 1986. Mike and I worked on new material at the time integrating the use of computers. Soon we got support from Jar Forest on drums, the local matador out of Eschborn (Mike and Jaro already knew each other for more than an eternity). We also enlisted the well-respected Secret Society bassist Werner Wenzlitschke. In this phase, we were very creative and into jazzrock, but the life has its characteristic rules. In 1988 JOP was formed (Just Our Pieces) with Kevin Austin on vocals and keyboards. In 1992 after some Gigs, Kevin quietly and secretly left for the homeland, while we were facing a big personal disappointment. Meanwhile, the first children screamed when the "Funkfurter Mitternachtsorchester" touched the planet, with the support of theater musician and sound designer Willi Bopp. Musicperfomance was celebrated with the action artist Guntram Prochaska. Everything was improvised to theater lyrics as well, such as "Fax an Gott" or "Penthouse in the Jungle" and "Cemetery of Love". Good and harmonious it had to be! After our earlier disappointments and setbacks, fixed arrangements/music bored us. Fresh, unbound and surprising it had to be! But above all, it was Friendship first. At that time Delta-Mike played the percussion. Jaro then joined again in 1994 and Delta Mike took the Congas & the rogue. We practiced for 3 years in spontaneous, harmonious improvisation before we recorded our 1st CD "Suicide Solution". The occasion for the Title Song was a suicide in Frankfurt Sindlingen. A woman, who was attending the festival of love in the church, sat down to the Christmas religious service and with two handgrenades, blew herself and others into the air. At that time we acted under the dadaistic name "Haschpapa und die Gabriels" when humor & nonsense where our dearest recesses and employments. In 1996 we released the Live CD "Zapped". In 2000, we decided to give ourselves a new name. Because we were unable to agree on a name, Mike Burn began to publish our music on the Internet under the name of "mikeburn and friends". The encouragement from MP3.com has been enormous. Many titles achieved #1 for weeks on the MP3.com Charts. Meanwhile, our ceremony master, Guntram Prochaska was in use worldwide. In 36 countries, his peace angels - wooden Totems - stand and preserve the peace of the world, and we search for a singer. The year of decision and joyful surprise was 2002. On the Internet, Mike Burn found the 'Sisters of Sharon' out of Hong Kong and the Scottish singer Kate Cassidy. He invited all and everyone came. Of the Sisters of Sharon, we have Chris Bowers out of Hong Kong and the Australian Jane Eliz out of London. We did a spontaneous gig with Chris Bowers and had a super session with Chris and Jane together. Just one month later, Kate Cassidy landed in Frankfurt for a couple of solo gigs with the acoustic. After our departure session, we were so amazed by Kate's voice and her person, that further musical collaboration and concerts for 2003 were scheduled. We encounter ourselves every 4 weeks (thanks to Ryan Air), to experience wonderful days together in music, celebration and new song creations.

Group Members Various collaboration partners from all over the world and of course the "mikeburn and friends"-band... Bass: Werner Wenzlitschke, Drums: Jaro Forejt, Git./Voc./Keys: Mike Burn, Keyboards: Willi Bopp, Sax/Flute: Gabriel Herbst, Percussion and disturbing Vocals: Delta Pomp.

Instruments Bass, Drums, Percussion, Guitars, Keyboards, Saxophone, Flute.

Location Frankfurt, Hessen - Germany

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