the Beatles, Billy Bragg, The Magnetic Fields, Paul Simon, The Divine Comedy, Nick Drake, Cole Porter, Rogers & Hammerstien, Burt Bacharach, Ivor Novello, Bill Evans, Blur, Elvis Costello, Morrissey, Robyn Hitchcock, etc.
Sounds Like
Some songs are soft, picky and melancholy, some are space rock, others are just a voice accompanied by a string quartet. Still others are jazzy, breezy, piano fueled showsongs. In short, there's something for everyone!
Reclinerland is the musical musings of Michael Johnson, a singer songwriter who makes Postmodern Pop, or Pop Art Music.
Reclinerland has released four albums and toured in Portland, London, and all over the US, sharing bills with many talented people, including The Red House Painters, Kristen Hirsh, Pete Krebs, Modern English, the cute guy from Tears For Fears, Komeda, Ivy, Brenda Kahn, Joseph Arthur, Dreams Come True (a Japanese Pop band), Audio Learning Center, Damien Rice, The Decemberists, Norfolk & Western, The Stratford 4, the Pale, and others. Reclinerland has appeared at festivals such as CMJ, SxSW, and Sasquatch. In April 2000, Reclinerland appeared on national television on Jimmy & Doug’s Farm Club TV show on the USA network.
Journalist-types have singled out certain influences when describing Reclinerland’s sound. Among them The Beatles, The Zombies, Galaxie 500, Nick Drake, Paul Simon, The Push Kings, and The Magnetic Fields. With the release of The Ideal Home Music Library, Reclinerland’s fourth record, Mike adds Cole Porter, Franklin Bruno, Chet Baker, Burt Bacharach, and Rogers & Hammerstien to that list.
Mike also plays in Blanket Music and Parks & Recreation, also on Hush Records.
Hey brotha,you ever wonder what it sounds like when five highly skilled wizards do battle with a herd of sex crazed unicorns gone wild on teenage sugar wolf pills? Well this is it, our new set of material is all about that shit......it's heavy like a chevy with more hooks than a f*cking pirate convention!
i was just in portland for a couple of days - i cannot believe how much it has changed in the 11 years since i left it. amazing! hope all is well with you.
Hi Mike, It's your sister Amy. check out my cheesy website www.spiderlilyclothing.com Hell, at least it's up there. EMAIL Me!! Your like, 3 behind me now.
Hi Mike, It's your sister Amy. check out my cheesy website www.spiderlilyclothing.com Hell, at least it's up there. EMAIL Me!! Your like, 3 behind me now.
flew the red-eye back from vegas today. thought i'd check in on you and see how you're doing, and vegas remains plays to greet me. interesting.
hope all is good.
xo, sal
this one time. i saw mike play in this little cafe thing. ok, well, it was twice. those were good nights. then i just saw him at my house the other weekend. Mike, Ben, and I bitched about the bitches on the hush board. It was good times. Although, Ben and I forgot that we were going to make Mike play. Damn.
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