Michael Miles is a Minnesota-based acoustic musician, songwriter, and composer. Besides news and general updates, you can download new music posted in various entries and subscribe to that feed on your iPod or RSS-capable mp3 player.
Alright! Got a long one for you to download today. In continuation from yesterday’s posting on improv sessions from March 2005, I’ve got one that basically amounts to a one-man jam festival that cycles through a variety of tempos, styles and experiences. It’s well worth the download.
So let’s get started by downloading this jam session that I created back on March 19, 2005 - part six. It’s nearly an eleven-minute song, so be prepared to wait a bit. 
Continuing my review of improv sessions from days come and gone, I wanted to highlight this little diamond in the rough — yep, has some rough edges and moments in there, but it’s improv and you can’t expect perfection unless your paygrade, notoriety or record company wants it to be that way. Frankly, I’m a bit tired of “perfect” music anyhow — all of the music we’re spoon-fed on commercial radio stations is so overly-polished that you lose the humanity behind it and it ends up becoming white noise on the elevator or your portable radio at work while you type up that TPS report.
Did you get the memo? I didn’t.
I’ve restored all the mp3 audio files up to my server finally, so I thought I’d take a few weeks to review some of the improv sessions that I recorded throughout 2005 and 2006. I do plan on getting back into the swing of things with playing and recording, but in the meantime it is fun to look back and see what I’d been cooking up in the kitchen.
First thing’s first — download the improv session from March 19, 2005 (part one). I’ll give a minute/second marker of some of the things I’m introducing in the piece.
For those of you who followed the happenings with my band Crash Effect, you were well aware of the fallout and gradual decline surrounding that aspect in my life. Our bass player and lead guitarist left Paul and I to figure out how in the world we could two-man it. And with growing responsibilities in our lives — especially with Paul becoming a dad — we grew a bit discouraged and let Crash Effect sit on the shelf collecting dust (along with the hundreds of CD’s sitting in my basement).
I appreciate your patience as I slowly get my site up and running. I will have all my audio files, cd’s and other items available soon. Thank you for your patience.
- michael
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