Year : 2023
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 91 mb
Bio:
Michael Anthony Mangini (born April 18, 1963) is an American musician, primarily known as the former drummer of progressive metal band Dream Theater, with whom he played between 2010 and 2023. He has also played for bands and artists such as Annihilator, Extreme, James LaBrie, and Steve Vai. Before joining Dream Theater, Mangini was a faculty member at Berklee College of Music.Between 2002 and 2005, he set five World's Fastest Drummer records. Mangini appeared on the Discovery Channel show Time Warp, displaying his drum skills for high-speed cameras.Mike is currently in the midst of releasing his solo music on an album called, “Invisible Signs.” He is the sole songwriter and plays on it.In 2010, Mike Mangini won the drum seat for the Progressive Rock icons Dream Theater in an audition that was captured in the internet documentary, “The Spirit Carries On.” He has worked with Annihilator, Extreme, Steve Vai and U.K. The career constant for Mike has been his teaching in some way, shape or form.During his long and diverse career, he has won approximately 60 combined performance based awards, audtions, and drum contests. These individual awards have spanned musical styles from Classical, Jazz, Rock, to Heavy Metal, Solo drumming and official W.F.D. World’s Fastest Drummer records.He is in may reader’s polls for drum magazines as well. Additionally, he was the drummer in bands that won at the state championship level in public school related orchestral, jazz and percussion ensembles that all placed 1st at the state level. Professionally, he has earned five Grammy nominations and one win for Dream Theater’s, “The Alien." Although he is best known for his work with heavier rock music, he has done gigs in the styles of Latin, Funk, Swing, Pop Ballads, Pop and Blues. He was also one of seven drummers in the International film festival, award winning documentary, “A Drummer’s Dream,” as well as being featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Time Warp.” Mike is a product of a solid network of family, friends and public school sports and music programs with great teachers in Waltham, Massachusetts. Although wikipedia has made the world think that Mike is from Newton, MA, Mike was only born in a Newton hospital, but is from Waltham, MA. This upbringing inspired him to work with people, to compete and to understand the value of quality teaching and influence.Mike became a private drum teacher and developed a learning system called “Rhythm Knowledge” and it contains three volumes to date. It is a cognitive and computer science based learning system that also relies on his documented observations as both a student and teacher. Eventually, Mike and his philosophies got world wide attention in international drum magazines. Mike headlines international drum festivals embarks on solo drum clinic tours sponsored by his equipment endorsement companies each year demonstrating how his systems work.As a teacher, he stared his own private instruction business and eventually taught at the Berklee College of Music for eleven years and was eventually appointed as the Percussion Department’s Student Advisor. He surpassed being just a top sought after teacher at Berklee. He finished in the top 1 to 3% of the O.C.E.’s student response ratings for college professors in the entire United States each year the ratings system was used.In 2013, he released an award winning instructional DVD called “The Grid,” that turns musical improvisation into a science. This system can also be applied to improvising anything. Mike invented it because neither Berklee or the World had yet defined and broken down what ‘improvisation’ actually is and how it works. He showed just how correct the approach is not just by winning the Dream Theater audition, but to use it to help less skilled players improvise decently.
Album:
Mike Mangini is having a hell of a week. Mangini parted ways with Dream Theater yesterday as Mike Portnoy returned to the band, and now he's announced his new solo album Invisible Signs for November 11. The record features Tony Dickinson on bass, Ivan Keller on guitar, Firewind guitarist Gus G. on lead guitar, and ex-Evanescence guitarist Jen Majura on vocals.On the latest single 'Not Drowning', Mangini said: "While listening to the chorus part of this song sometime in 2018, I heard word sounds in my mind and the word 'drowning' fit it pretty well. I didn't want to write about it literally though. Also, the lyrics on this album aren't about personal events or stories and they're supposed to be simple and quickly digestible, not complex like the content (below) that I found. This album is purposefully not 'prog' in any way."Searching terms related to 'drowning' eventually led me to the word 'confusion.' That made me think of the confusion surrounding the findings of Quantum Mechanics. I found instances of physicists and mathematicians saying that the test results seemed strange and 'wrong,' and that they could not reconcile it with their view of reality."Some said there are things about it we cannot know, or maybe are not supposed to know. It seemed to me that spending too much time immersing oneself in it can make a person crazy. Einstein died confounded by it spending countless hours trying to recocile it with the reality he knew. The myriad of unfounded conjectures outside the physics community conjured up a comedy skit in my mind, yet there is something that is not adding up at the very core of it all and that's not funny. The lines 'Not Drowning' and 'I will breathe' each relate to the hope of clearing away what is blurring the reality of something in all kinds of situations."For a song lyric, I suspected that singing about physics wouldn't be as common as the idea of jumping in a saltwater pool. I needed a descriptive location for it. 'Backyard' didn't work, so I used the word 'nation' because everyone lives in one. That word led me to 'radiation,' as that's what heats up a pool and has a cool sound to it when sung. Mainly, words come to me as sounds, then I search around and form something cohesive, but try not to sacrifice how the words sound."I thought this might be interesting to know about. At the end of the day, however, it's just a song for rocking out! And then there's the simultaneous 7/8 in Common Time and a wild solo section for the Musos!"
Line Up:
Mike Mangini - Drums - See also: ex-Annihilator, ex-Dream Theater, ex-James LaBrie, ex-John Petrucci (live), ex-Stygia, ex-Extreme, ex-Steve Vai, Mullmuzzler
Jen Majura - vocals
Gus G. - guitar
Ivan Keller - guitar
Tony Dickinson - bass
Tracklist:
01. Freak Of Nature
02. Invisible Signs
03. Habit To Change
04. Not Drowning
05. Deep Inside
06. Saying Sorry
07. So Alive
08. Glamorous Shades
09. It's Noise
10. Let Me Shine
11. Seek And Find
12. Black Box
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