Mike Pride (musician)

Mike Pride, Moers Festival 2012

Mike Pride is an American, New York City based singer/drummer/composer, born on July 7.^[1] He is known for the large number of bands he plays with,^[2] and has a significant reputation in the indie music scene there. He has played at John Zorn's club, The Stone^[3] with Jesse Krakow, with whom he has also worked on a number of projects.^[4] Time Out NY says of one album featuring him "Pride has backed brainy jazz legend Anthony Braxton as well as political punks Millions of Dead Cops. Those influences and countless others speed by here, but the flow of ideas is so continuous that the album never feels like pastiche.".^[5] After relocating to New York City from his native Maine, he has become involved with many different projects^[4] and collaborated with Charlie Looker, Jamie Saft, Jon Irabagon, Moppa Elliott, and Peter Evans, among many others.

Discography

As leader

• The MPThree: Sleep Cells (Rec. 2003; Utech, 2006), Trio with Mary Halvorson and Trevor Dunn
• Scrambler (Not Two, 2005), with William Parker, Charlie Looker, Tony Malaby
• Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys: Betweenwhile (AUM Fidelity, 2010), with Darius Jones, Peter Bitenc, Alexis Marcelo
• Drummer's Corpse (AUM Fidelity, 2013)

Collaborations

• Anthony Braxton / Sonny Simmons / Brandon Evans / André Vida / Mike Pride / Shanir Blumenkranz (Parallactic, 2003)
• Pale Horse and Rider: Moody Pike (Darla/Agenda, 2004)
• Marcos Fernandes / Mike Pride: A Mountain Is a Mammal (Accretions, 2006)
• Evil Eye: Doin' It All for My Baby (KMB Jazz, 2007)
• Jack Wright / Ben Wright / Mike Pride / Nate Wooley: Tenterhooks (Bug Incision, 2009)
• Kirk Knuffke & Mike Pride: The Exterminating Angel (Not Two, 2012)
• Jon Irabagon / Mike Pride / Mick Barr: I Don't Hear Nothin' But the Blues, Volume 2: Appalachian Haze (Irabbagast, 2012)

As sideman

With Marc Gartman

• All's Well That Ends (Pushpin, 2002)

With Brandon Evans

• Elliptical Axis 31 (Parallactic, 2003)

With Millions of Dead Cops (MDC)

• Magnus Dominus Corpus (Sudden Death/Yellow Dog/Peculio Discos, 2004)

With Burd Early

• Mind and Mother (Western Vinyl, 2004)

With Aarktica

• Bleeding Light (Darla, 2005)

With Boredoms

• 77 Boa Drum (Commmons, 2008)
• 77 Boa Drum (DVD, Thrill Jockey, 2010)

With Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore

• A Calculus of Loss (Clean Feed, 2008)
• Three Less Than Between (Clean Feed, 2009)
• Three Kinds of Happiness (Not Two, 2010)

With Jamie Saft

• Black Shabbis (Tzadik, 2009)

With Yoni Kretzmer Trio

• Nevertheless (Hopscotch, 2010)

With Quivers

• Split (Part of album by Chart; Ultramarine, 2010)

With Pretty Monsters

• Pretty Monsters (Public Eyesore, 2012)

Hungry Cowboy

• Dance (Rec. 2010; Prom Night, 2013)

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 19, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
3. "The Stone Calendar". Thestonenyc.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
5. "Time Out New York | New York Events, Activities & Things To Do". Newyork.timeout.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.