SHORT BIO =
Michael ATONAL Vick (VVV) =
Multi-Instrumentalist + Promotions &
Free-Bananas......
Michael Lloyd Vick aka Michael ATONAL Vick (VVV), is a Musician/Artist/Composer/Teacher/Promoter/Producer/Orator etc. at his WIT’S END who has been performing & Composing Sounds/Music since 1985 & is featured on many various media recordings available as The Original “Michael Vick”. MAVick is known as a main proponent of the Fretless Guitar & is the Artistic Director/Promoter of the “Village Of The Unfretted : NYC Fretless Guitar Festival & CD Release”. Michael is also a very accomplished Classical Guitarist, as well as; an extreme Experimentalist using various Loopers and Unique Instruments of his own design and modifications to create sounds. MAVVVick has been featured in various major publications like Guitar Player, Guitar World (USA), La Guitare, Guitare Classique (FRANCE) & Guitar9.com....Learn More at
www.TheMichaelVickTrip.com
VVV is always ready for the “BASS FIGHT” Promotion with Michael ATONAL Vick versus Benjamin FUNK Johnson + MusicaMundana.TV’s Geoffrey G5-C on Gamelon & Drums. “BASS FIGHT” features Opening Preliminary Rounds where Bassists get to play 2 - 5 Minute Sets before the Main Event of ATONAL vs. FUNK in a battle of Bassists. Although, BASS FIGHT 2004 “The Return Of Thunder-Thumb” did end in controversy. BASS FIGHT 2005 “This Time It’s Personal” was a success at Cumberland’s in SC, but it also has led to a BASS-LANDING in Charlotte, NC early 2006 leading to a California ShowDown......Learn More at
www.BassFight.US
MAV has also formed, recorded & Composed for the Musical & Art Ensembles WIT’S END, MusicaMundana.TV & The Michael Vick Trip, yet he has performed with The Pat Curtis Jazz Trio, The Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Footlight Players, the Charleston Stage Company, Wayang Modern Shadow Puppet Theater and the C Of C Guitar Quartet. Vick has also performed at The National Slide Guitar Festival, Hotlantas Acid Jazz Festival, the Boogie Festivals and Piccolo Spoleto Festival USA with his puppet “Lucky The Spirited-Dragon” + Free-Bananas!!!
VICK has 2 new CD/DVD Combos out on the Sound As Music Label called “VVV : FretLess Guitar & Bass w/ MusicaMundana.TV POOLS” + “SMELL LA MITTEN” & he is currently finishing an All Fret-Less Guitar / Bass / Glissentar / Baritone Ukelele CD/DVD called “UNFRET MY HEART” due out Winter 2006. MAVick is now Touring under the name Michael Vick’s “Fretless Guitar Circus” and giving “UnFretted” WorkShops +.
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OutSide MAVVVick Quotes :
“He plays fretted and fretless guitars, and sometimes his music takes a little getting used to.”
www.FretNet.com PBS Australia
“.......Vick’s new release explodes with uncanny
experimental guitar playing.”
www.AbstractLogix.com
“.....the Frank Zappa of fretless guitar........Bizzare indeed....” www.Ufretted.com
Pick up a copy of his CD if your ready to have your mind blown. www.Guitar9.com
“.....Vick’s guitar is blazing / true musical pioneers.” www.FuseMag.com
“Love it / taking cues equally from free jazz &
headpounding aggressive hardcore.”
www.Ink19.com
“Vick is one of those guitarists that do not do some solos the actual point of force, but its type of technical door to visit truly different fields.”
Millrecords Review by Roberto Guarnieri Rome, Italy
www.digilander.libero.it/stratocaster67
‘Interjections Part 1’ is centered around the unhinged
guitar acrobatics of one Michael Vick.
www.StompAndStammer.com
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Michael Vick & his known Discography that actually counts.
MAVVick : Dangerous Demos Of An UnFretted-Heart (CD/DVD) 2006
VVV : FretLess Guitar & Bass w/ MusicaMundana.TV
(CD/DVD) 2005
The Michael Vick Trip : Smell La Mitten / GtrMastW.Vol2 w/ MusicaMundana.TV & WIT’S END
(CD/DVD) 2004
MusicaMundana.TV : Dirty Panties On A Hanger
(CD) 2004
Hectic-Eclectic : GtrMastW.Vol2 w/ MusicaMundana.TV & WIT’S END
(CD ReMastered) 2004
Michael ATONAL Vick : Inciting-Freedom w/ Sampled Loops Of LOVE
(CD) 2003
Free Master-Bass tion : Bass MasterWorks Vol.1 / Soft-Side-Hard LIVE w/ MusicaMundana.TV, The Intergalactic Cowboy & Mr. Amazing
(CD) 2003
MV (SOLO) : Modern Classical/Nylon String Guitar Recital
(CD/DVD) 2003
MusicaMundana.TV “@ La Gates Of Gamelonia”
(CD) 2003
Michael Vick : EDUCATIONAL-GUESSES (A 6 Part Suite)
(CD) 2003
The Michael Vick Trip IMproViZational Blues Band w/ The Intergalactic Cowboy etc....
(DVD/VHS) 2003
Hectic-Eclectic : Guitar MasterWorks Vol.1 w/ MusicaMundana.TV & WIT’S END
(CD) 2002
Michael Vick SOLO Classical/Jazz Guitarist/Bassist
(CD/DVD) 2002
The Michael Vick Trip @ WIT’S END: Live Promo 2002 w/ Ryan Shah +
(CD-R/VHS/CD_Audio) 2002
The Michael Vick Trip : Dynamic-Intentions w/ Marginal-Sleep
(CD) 2001
WIT’S END : No Strings-Safe LIVE
(CD/DVD) 2001
Wayang-Shadow-Puppets LIVE Mezzane
(CD-R) 2001
Atonal-Sampler of The M.V.T. & W.E
(CD) 2001
Cosmos LIVE / MV LIVE @ Fill Your Cup w/ WAYANG
(DVD/VHS) 2001
Performance-Mint Better Than Before w/ Geoff Cormier & WAYANG +
(CD-R/VHS) 2001
The Michael Vick Trip : A Teacher’s Work Is Never Done + E-Food
(CD) 2000
MusicaMundana.TV ImproviZational-Summitt LIVE
(CD) 2000
”LUCKY THE SPRIRTED-DRAGON” This Parties Goin’-Mobile LIVE
(CD-R/VHS) 2000
MusicaMundana.TV : VVV/G5 Xmaz-Parade for 1st-Night LIVE
(CD) 2000
The Michael Vick Trip : Floating On A Time-Scale Inbetween
(CD) 1999
WIT’S END : Interjections Part 2
(CD) 1998
MVWE : Outside ‘N Mixin’
(VHS) 1998
WIT’S END : Interjections Part 1
(CD) 1997
The Michael Vick Trip : Because It Takes A Sharp to Make A Flat & Back Again
(CD/Cass) 1997
Mad-Functioning-Box Using Old Methods w/ The Hilton Brothers & W.E.
(VHS) 1995-1997
WIT’S END : Ending 96
(CD/Cass/VHS) 1996
WIT’S END : W.E.=MUSIC
(CD/Cass) 1996
WIT’S END : W.E.=Video
(VHS) 1996
The Michael Vick Trip : Dedicated To The Sound-Spirit/The Itch
(CD/Cass) 1995-1996
WIT’S END : Project-Destruction
(CD/Cass) 1995
The Michael Vick Trip : For Thou Art The Golden-Roman...Go Away!!!”
(CD/Cass) 1991-1994
COMING in 2006 and BeYond
Michael ATONAL Vick : UnFret My Heart w/ G5 on Gamelan + Ryan Shah on Tabla
(CD/DVD)
Bass-Landing w/ Benjamin FUNK Johnson & MC Geoffrey G5C
(CD/DVD)
The Michael Vick Trip : Private SpaceCraft ISSUES w/ G5
(CD)
BassWasher : Bass MasterWorks Vol.2
(CD)
www.CDBABY.com
www.ABSTRACTLOGIX.com
MV can also be found on many other Compilations & Artists Recordings................
E-mail michaelvick@atonal-hole.com or Call 843.769.2357 to Order Now!
Thanks!.......................................& Again
Contact for Bookings 843.769.2357 / E-Mail below michaelvick@atonal-hole.com