Mike Bones

Mike Bone fragments may be the not-so-secret identification of guitarist and songwriter Mike Strallow; as Strallow, he’s founded himself among the best guitarists on the brand new York underground/impartial picture for his use Soldiers of Lot of money, Damon McMahon, Lizzie Trulie, as well as the Mighty Torch, while beneath the name Mike Bone fragments he’s stepped out like a single artist, documenting his personal songs, which enable him showing another part of his musical character. Given birth to in 1980 and elevated in NJ, Strallow began understanding how to play acoustic guitar when he was six years of age, but he didn’t possess a musical instrument of his very own until he was ten. Strallow he got his initial Gibson Les Paul guitar from his dad, who selected it up at the job and brought it house as an inducement to accomplish better in college (though Strallow admits that it had been paid to him when he graduated despite his poor marks). In his past due teens, Strallow transferred to NEW YORK and started immersing himself in the city’s music picture while honing his electric guitar technique. Strallow have been playing electric guitar with a small number of groupings before he started taking his initial steps being a songwriter, inspired by American root base artists such as for example Skip Adam and Hank Williams aswell as the angst-filled confessions of Leonard Cohen. Strallow began putting his music to tape throughout a stay static in Memphis with close friends from the music group Lucero, but these early periods proceeded to go unreleased and it had been in the summertime of 2006 that Strallow started serious focus on his initial full-length album. Establishing at a Brooklyn documenting studio possessed by members from the music group Oneida, Strallow’s periods included performances by Parker Kindred of Antony as well as the Johnsons, Patrick Sullivan of Oakley Hall, El-P sideman Wilder Zoby, and Brad Truax of Light Magic and House; for these recordings, Strallow purposefully deemphasized his electric guitar work to be able to provide his lyrics higher room to inform their stories. Instead of release the task under his personal name, Strallow utilized the moniker Mike Bone fragments, a nickname from his child years, as well as the first Mike Bone fragments recording, The Sky Behind the ocean, was released from the self-employed label The Sociable Registry in nov 2007.