“World’s Greatest Unknown ?” 
( RARWRITER, December 2011)

First there was Lennon and McCartney. Then there was Elton John. It was a while before Tracy Chapman. Artists that get to the heart and soul of all that is beautiful in music come around far too rarely. Thankfully, one man has been that tireless champion of the purest joy and most powerful songs for 35 years. That man is Michael Butler.

With nothing but the spontaneous attacks and rhythms on his acoustic guitar, an earnest and soulful voice, and a proven ability to connect with live audiences, Butler exists to bring people together with the ever-binding spirit of song.

A resident of Harlem, this "New York city boy" had already spiritually crossed the Atlantic Ocean by the age of four, when he first heard the Beatles and was immediately hooked, realizing his calling incredibly early.

"Well, that's for me," Butler says of that epiphanic moment. "That's what I must do."

The Beatles inspired Butler to embark on a performing and songwriting career that has spanned six studio albums and two continents over 30 years. He has been through every genre---hard rock, rock, Motown, Americana, and even rap---you name it. But 1993 brought a reinvention where Butler traded up his electric guitar for an acoustic & grew out his dreadlocks never looking back. Since then, he has performed cover songs and original material in front of packed audiences during an 11-year residency in New York's Times Square. He has also toured overseas in countries like Denmark, Germany, and Ireland, where at one memorable moment a teenage girl on a Longford Street ran after him "just to touch my hair - A Hard Days Night moment to say the least"

The “Locks”: These sort of experiences (And Hair) are tied to Michael Butler's identity. He is African-American, but his music transcends ethnicity and race in a way that's reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix. As RARwriter.com put it, Butler "has a cross-cultural thing going for him, a personality who owns all that comes with being Black but is so much more."

This post-racial identity is heard through all of Butler's music, a style that has elements of the singer-songwriter genre, delta blues, and  Americana, but every melody is unmistakably familiar, with touches of classic songwriters like John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Tracy Chapman, and Sly Stone, influences found in songs like "Denmark and Me," "Catherine Michelle," and "Key West." Most importantly, Butler's music also transcends nationalities---sometimes he sounds eerily like European stars like Denmark's Thomas Helmig, Sweden's Patrik Issakson, and Ireland's Glen Hansard. 

Up next from Michael Butler are his next few albums, a collection of intimate acoustic songs as well as  “off to the side projects” of  Hard Rock, New Wave & Dance/R&B as well. “Why” ?  Because they exists & are written…and for the “fun of it” as Butler puts it. Quote: “I let the song write itself, and if it goes the way of Techno, I let it take itself there”. As far a “My Style”, the acoustic cd’s – All 2 to 3 of them - will Spell that out what Michael Butler is about”. The Acoustic songs are the narrative of Butler’s here and now 2013/14… songs of the moment, of the place, and completely from the heart. He is also seeking ever-burning desire to form real connections with audiences worldwide, especially in Europe.

"When I find myself watching the show from above me," Butler says, "with the crowd swaying & locked  together, all in the same direction, to the same beat...That's when I know it's a great show. Somehow, I levitate, and the show is going on its own. And I'm just watching, quite pleased and along with the ride."

It's a ride that has always been at the heart of every great song, and at the heart of music, driven by a great musician. Michael Butler is that musician. Join him as he guides you through all the places that make music real.


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Thank You 4 Your Interest - All what U see and Hear is inspired by Nature and by You, for your interest I thank you.  
As we all are one big organic lump living life that deeply connected with all are dependent on each other and the environment around us. We navigate by mirroring people we meet and watching to learn from the natures sustainable behavior and habits. We are Bi-products of each other our Nature and our Habitat, in this life of constant change we try to find the best way to deal with the consecvenses of not always knowing what is the right path, so we creates, experiments, acts and lives as contemporary symptoms,  sending out signs and signals to our surroundings in our culture for it to recognize and use it as a navigator to understand ourself, people, animals, nature, life in general the now and the codex of the times we live in.
It is in this open window, where we are mirroring  living and observing contemporary symptoms of times, we can create, interpret, communicate, our unique set of experiences, visualize our thoughts and doubts & use it as a frame for confirmation of your own state of mind, a recognizing tool for mental health as a grounding - a start, the moment, yours own perfect Now - Whatever you find useful on your path in life to wisdom, freedom and trust, you will find your own tools on your way or you will make them yourself, it will and cannot be given to you, it's for you to discover, you can and will not learn it from someone, the source is for you to find, cause nobody can not teach or learn away we can only inspire, be the creative, communicators, toolmakers, reflectors, living mirrors, the artist.  Mirroring of the contemporary signals, signs and symptoms of man in our own homemade manmade culture of the times - so that we together can recognize, visualize and inspire a direction in the evolution that is sustaining life and diversity on this earth and to make decisions on behalf of our common source, knowledge and all life as we know it. Either we are aware of it or not, we are all ambassadors for the nature and part of all life, our instinct want us to find our self, recognize our personality in its identity, adapt its abilities,  language, tools, signs and signals express it trough any given medium at any time, always - thats nature at work, thats the artists at work for the nature, the natures ambassador translating the universal language of man, the natures nature - repeating over and over again what we all know, what we are a part of, what we live inn, off and for, what we all know that we always knew in different ways as new and different days appears and time evolves into life as we know it, and we cease this gorgeous moment and love it, finds the only window out that show it, reveals the source, so use no force, don't scream, whisper, just breath your thoughts and release your will, chill your spill pill , reject your greed, please your thirst, smoothen you bursts let patience come first and find your chi and you will see you're just perfectly how and where you are meant to be, recognizing that everything is perfectly as it's suppose to be, cause it could not be differently, in this gift called life where we are free to be who we are really, free to do whatever we want to if we only know it is truly.     
Omnitudo - all is one - one is all - always / per van per


 ORGANIC - according to wikipedia;
" relating to an organism, a living entity."

 AMBIENT - according to wikipedia; "ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric",[2] "visual"[3] or "unobtrusive" quality."- 

 MUSIC -  gives us the possibility to experience how music, sound-storys, organic field recordings, atmospherics, noise aso. is reflecting and expressing the state of mind of the people and culture of the habitat in our own time. Every region of the earth has it's own musical expression, identity and language, (ever changing of course), some are very active, upfront and visual, others grounded in old ritual tradition, others purely celebrating mother nature and life. The nordic AMBIENT music expression today is up front, modern, active, well known and appreciated widely around the world, for it's emotional seriousity, elemental character and fascinating, recognizable almost visual atmosphere of the natures direct impact on the soundscape, atmosphere and story told or translated.

 NATURE -  has no borders, nor has the music, neither do we. As we get into the ambient, sound-scaping, storytelling, exploring spirit and ancient ground, we get wise on our own habitat, nature, our people and ourself, trough the fine tools of art, sound & music. Sharing these reflections in musical works, experience & wisdom with our brothers & sisters, is what art is all about. The artist will always seek and explore all sides of life & nature, then translate and express it trough the tools of art, so that others who don't have the time, means or the gift to explore it, is given access to this source of knowledge, trough the artists work with the umbrella of all arts, the music. The only, yet, universal language humans have.

 INSIDE you in your home on this earth, in our world of solar systems and galaxys, lives the universe to be, your guide, partner and chi in your effort to see and to be a part of something bigger than yourself. So that together we all will, inspired by each-other, enjoy in common spirit the greatest gift of all......LIFE, as it happens, right now, here, everywhere and always!  
 
NAMASTE
per van per
cph 2012



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