Marrying the singer-songwriter-guitarist and electronic live producer, Michael's music draws listeners into lush and atmospheric, driving and dynamic spaces spanning folk tradition and the avant-garde. Over a career spanning more than twenty years, three continents, and a thousand performances, Michael's music has found its way into settings everywhere from award-winning documentaries to clinical psychedelic research to birthing centers to underground cave parties.

Singing and playing while warping live samples with his toes, Michael's performances embody his training as an evolutionary biologist and cyberdelic poet-philosopher — liberating the organic into the digital, and the idioms of Americana into a new species of transcendental trance.

"Welcome to the future...Michael is a pioneer exploring the edge realms where the electric and old world meet."
- LostInSound

"It takes creativity to make the next step in a newer, more shocking direction, but it takes a visionary to go beyond the breaking point and meet music on the other end of the spectrum. That’s what Michael Garfield does."
- The Untz

"Monstrously talented...an act the likes of which I have not seen in a long time."
- Willy Porter

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Shapes on Tape is a Brooklyn-based Brew-Wave/Ultrapop group whose infectious hook-laden three-minute bangers represent a new era where loud guitars and synthesizers can coexist and even party together. A band that once made L Magazine implore U2 to "move over and let Shapes on Tape seize the thrown(sic)," Shapes on Tape asks the question, "What if Walter Mondale had won?"

Genre-hopping producer/multi-instrumentalist/90s groovebox enthusiast Adam Kruckenberg, formerly of Midwest glam legend Vibralux, and guitarist/poet Jason Matuskiewicz, a veteran of beloved Lexington, KY band Candidate, began collaborating in 2014, but they didn't complete their sound, best described as a sonic assault of feels, until they expanded SoT to include drum savant and overall swell guy Justin Heaverin of Noisebody and The Silver Tongues.
Matuskiewicz’s lyrics and straightforward style walk the line between high and low concept with an abrupt 3-chord frankness that never takes itself seriously, while Kruckenberg’s powerful vocals and synthetic re-imaginings take the songs to epic proportions. Combined with Heaverin's unstoppable groove, you could be forgiven for wondering when The Boss had time to do a secret collaboration with Erasure. With the help of Grammy-nominated producer and Hedwig alum Justin Craig, SoT's forthcoming album Legends in The Process is sure to be a supersonic, beer-fueled dreamscape littered with the carcasses of _-waves and _-cores.

Sounds like: The imaginary greatest band that ever existed that haunted your dreams when you were 8 years old.

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