Mike Flynn - Fretted and fretless Basses, beats, loops, samples, composer, arranger
Influences
Franc O'Shea, Victor Wooten, Gary Willis, Matthew Garrison, Jaco, Hadrien Feraud and Dominique Di Piazza and some of my biggest influences on bass - I also love the music of Nils Petter Molvaer, John Scofield, MMW, Garajmahal, Tribal Tech, Carles Benavent and thousands of other from right across the musical spectrum - if it's good music I genrally like it - Jim O'Rourke is one of the greatest living song writers - though I wish he'd make another solo album!
Sounds Like
It keeps changing all the time but there's always a lot of bass going on...
Mike Flynn is a London based bassist and music journalist playing jazz, funk, leftfield pop and African influenced music as well as writing for leading music magazines Jazzwise and Time Out London.
Pro Bass Geek...
Mike Flynn
Currently holding down the bass with London-based funk band Groove Digger, and amazing, cutting edge London Rai rock/funk band
Ludomix, Mike has played with some amazing musical talent that includes live performances with members of Oxford dance band legends The Egg (playing live on MTV and Channel 5), opera singer Heather Cairncross, jazz musicians Soweto Kinch, Robert Mitchell, Tom Pilling, Roy Dodds, Robin Banerjee (Amy Winehouse), Lauren Dalrymple (Jazz Warriors), Mamadee Kamara (Courtney Pine, Andy Sheppard) Dylan Howe, Shannon Harris (Wheatus, Lilly Allen), Ben Sarfas (Lou Rhodes). Mike also perfomed a week of concerts with London funk band Jasco at the 2005 Koh Samui Music Festival in Thailand on the bill with bands Da Lata, Laurence Cottle's Big Band, UB40 and Jerry Lee Lewis. Most recently he's recorded a new album with beguiling singer/photographer Paula Rae Gibson in a new band called Labbatu. He's begun work on a new solo bass-led project that will span jazz, funk and left field dance music and feature many of the fine musicians he knows and works with in and around London - this will be due for release sometime in 2009.
gaNNets featuring FYFE DANGERFIELD are out and about this December with a bunch of intimate gigs in The Smoke - on a boat! (7th Dec), Bristol (14th Dec), 'Nham (15th Dec) & Brum (16th Dec)
"'Mr. Ears' sounds immense. Great solos, beautiful touch and wonderfully melodic...and the writing is brilliant." - Laurence Cottle
Hey! My world jazz fusion debut album 'Mr. Ears' is available to buy from TODAY! Just visit www.caimarlegarcia.com to purchase and for more information on the album and me!
HI,
Thanks for adding me. I really appreciate it. If you dig the Boards of Canada then you might like a couple of my tracks inparticular Lil' Emotional.
Take care
Aron
