Mike Borgsdorf with sometimes help from the Furbish Lousewort and other friends
Influences
Vegetables, fruits, legumes, and daily excercise. Beggars Banquet by the Rolling Stones. Trees & wood. A Light in August. Led Zeppelin III. Not quite enough sleep. Children. Sandinista by the Clash. Benjamin Franklin. Dust and old creaky things. The White Album. Lunar cycles, sunshine, wind and weather. Aoxomoxoa & Workingman's Dead. Vonnegut. An imaginary campfire jam by a northern Michigan ghost town. Joe Walsh / Barnstorm. More Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Neil Young in the ditch and under the full moon at Indigo Studios, and Chrome Dreams. Escape from suburban sprawl. Scoop by Pete Townshend. Seeking all that's still unsung.
Sounds Like
if you like neil young or califone or steve stills or iron and wine or joe walsh/barnstorm or sparklehorse you might like my music.
Mike Borgsdorf records at home with help from friends sometimes. Grew up with piano, punk rock drums in high school, acoustic dorm room jams, plugged in to electric traditional american rock & roll in the basements and bars of East Lansing MI. Cover tunes gave way to original manic hippie prog punk. Improvisational 'jam band' style held sway in popularity, so a dual musical personality was forged for simultaneous split band adventures. Interpersonal travails led to forging living room 4-track partnerships. A move to Los Angeles led to bass playing in the shiny little pop combo Uluteka to the enjoyment of dozens in the hipster bars of Hollywood. Dissolution, reevaluation led to current non-band solo and collaborative park playing, home recording status. [releases] Every Day is Not a Poem (2000) Candy Brown (2003) e.p. (2006). [history] Ann Arbor & East Lansing, Michigan: The Undefined, Shades of Gray, Fine by Nine, Sidestreets Four, End of the Future, Green Machine, Assembly Required, gardensnail, MESH, a dumptruck for snowy. Los Angeles: Uluteka, Energy Club, soundtrack work for the movie Bongwater.
