Mikael Jorgensen - Unreleased Projects
Expandards LP01
Expandards; Mikael Jorgensen, Isaac Koren. Photo: Brendan Willing James
This is a debut record for Expandards. Isaac Koren and Mikael Jorgensen have been improvising and crafting unique musical moments into a full length LP.
The duo have been playing in Ojai, LA & Santa Barbara from 2018 onward.
Koren’s soaring croon is cradled by unexpected sounds and unusual harmonic choices.
Personnel:
Mikael Jorgensen - Keyboards
Isaac Koren - Vocals
Mario Calire - Drums
Kevin McCormick - Bass
Dave Cipriani - Indian Slide Guitar
Nicole Atkins - BG Vocals
Jeremy Turner - Cello
Randy Tico - Acoustic Bass
Mikael Jorgensen & Sharon Van Etten “Moneyball Blues”
Recorded remotely in the summer of 2020. Mikael sent this piano track to Sharon and she wrote lyrics sang and played synth, drum machine and guitar.
It was a beacon of hope during the dark days of summer 2020.
Mikael Jorgensen - Piano, Synth Bass
Sharon Van Etten - Vocals, Synthesizer, Guitar, Drum Machine
Jorge Balbi - Drums
Jesse Siebenberg - Pedal Steel
Mixed by Daniel Knowles
Download “Moneyball Blues” https://s.disco.ac/xguxlnuzejan
Quindar - LP02
Quindar: James Merle Thomas & Mikael Jorgensen Photo: Chad Ress
This is Album #2 from the electronic instrumental duo Quindar, a collaboration between Mikael Jorgensen & James Merle Thomas. It’s a followup to the debut 2016 LP “Hip Mobility” a remixed tour through the NASA Film & Audio Archive.
Personnel:
Mikael Jorgensen - Keyboards & Synths & Video
James Merle Thomas - Keyboards & Synths
Additional video support:
Jeremy Roth
Ivan DelSol
Named after the ubiquitous “beeps” heard in NASA’s audio transmissions, Quindar began in 2012 and flourished in California when Jorgensen moved to Ojai and Thomas finished his PhD and moved to Los Angeles. Informed by Thomas’s research and Jorgensen’s background in engineering, Quindar operates as an electronic music act that reinterprets audio and film archives, and a creative platform for collaboration with a growing list of musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.
The band’s 2017 LP Hip Mobility drew from NASA’s audio archives and used the agency’s technical recordings to create extended sonic landscapes, while consciously avoiding clichés that usually accompany such material. The album received widespread coverage from music and science press (including interviews on NPR’s Weekend Edition and Science Friday), while a related EP and a limited-edition single drew from the same material and included remixes by collaborator M. Geddes Gengras. In addition to performing regularly at Wilco’s Solid Sound and other major festivals (Eaux Claires, Big Ears), the duo has conducted residencies at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, MASS MoCA and has performed at The Standard Hotel, The Getty Center, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles, CA, The Air And Space Museum in Washington DC and the Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
http://www.quindar.net/