Thoughts become things. Shape your own reality. Experience the Law of Attraction.

Limited vinyl, signed CD, merch: http://mikecaseyjazz.com

My studio debut (4th project in 4 years) featuring Grammy nominated Benito Gonzalez (pianist with Pharoah Sanders, Kenny Garrett, Jackie McLean) joining my longtime trio on 3 tracks!

Recorded July 2018 right before heading to Spain for a yearlong master's with Berklee Valencia, this captures my band and I at our best yet in the heat of the moment, recorded at Omer Avital's basement studio Wilson Live in 100 degree heat with no air conditioning...recorded all old school, no isolation, no headphones! No tricks. Raw uncut, delivering a lot of original compositions and arrangements I had been workshopping with the band for as many as 4 years or as little as 4 weeks.
credits
releases October 22, 2020

Mike Casey - Sax, Producer, Album Artwork
Benito Gonzalez - Piano (tracks 1,2,3,14,16)
Matt Dwonszyk - Bass
Corey Garcia - Drums

Video Animation / editing by Issaya Whitesides
Mixed/Mastered by Hugh Herber
Additional pre mixing by Jared Warsoff
Recorded by Ron Warburg (Leviaphøn) & Roy Boukris in Brooklyn New York City in July 2018

Law of Attraction

Midnight Reverie

Blue Room (Alternate Take)

Tempus Fugit (Alternate Take)

We Belong

The Anthem

All About Love: New Visions

Falling (All About Love Version) [feat. Jakeya Limitless]

Synthesis Approach

Synthesis Approach (Live)

New Ep Sonido Trascendental came out on 13th of October 2014.
Enjoy 3 Titles of the new EP here on Soundcloud!
To purchase entire digital version please check it out in Bandcamp: 
http://santiagodownbeatskajazz.bandcamp.com/album/sonido-trascendental-2

Santiago Downbeat Ska Jazz - Sonido Trascendental - 02 Mr. Lee

Sunlight

No Explanation (featuring Mica Paris)

Written/originally recorded by Jay-Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, The-Dream. Arranged by Mike Casey

Features 2x Grammy nominated pianist Benito Gonzalez (who has played with Pharaoh Sanders, Kenny Garrett, many other iconic saxophonists)

Tour, merch, and more: http://mikecaseyjazz.com 

Mike Casey - Sax/Arrangement/Producer
Benito Gonzalez - Piano
Matt Dwonszyk - Bass
Corey Garcia - Drums

No Church In The Wild

No Church In The Wild (Radio Edit)

No Church In The Wild (Intro)

Written by Mike Casey
Previous versions of Dagobah include https://soundcloud.com/mikecasey/dagobah-bloopr-remix-1?in=mikecasey/sets/surprise-the-remixes-pt-2 & https://soundcloud.com/mikecasey/dagobah-live-1

Dagobah

Written/recorded by Daniel Caesar & H.E.R.
Arrangement by Mike Casey

Best Part

Best Part (Take 3)

Originally written in June 2018 at Boysie Lowery Jazz Residency in Wilmington DE for the American proverb "The squeaky wheel gets the grease". Recorded 1 month later in Brooklyn NYC. Now dedicated to George Floyd, Breana Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, all who have been killed by the police and everyone on the front lines fighting for justice and healthcare workers on the front line of COVID19. 

Pre order full Law of Attraction album: http://mikecaseyjazz.com/loa 
Mike Casey - Sax & Composition
Benito Gonzalez - Piano
Matt Dwonszyk - Bass
Corey Garcia - Drums
Hugh Harsher - Mix/Master
Roy Boukris & Ron Warburg - Recording
Jared Warsoff - Addl mixing

Exclusive membership: http://found.ee/backstage
Merch and more: http://mikecaseyjazz.com

Squeaky Wheel

Squeaky Wheel (Take 2)

Being the humble guys that they are, Surprise Chef aren't going to admit they have something very special going down. However, there must be some magic in their studio, or maybe in the fact they all share a house and have formed close bonds, or perhaps from absorbing the DIY ethos of running their own record label that has culminated in such a unique and enchanting sound.

'Daylight Savings' is the follow-up to the group's debut album 'All News Is Good News’. That album earned the band a much - deserved following across the world and triumphantly marked their arrival onto the international stage. Their new album was recorded in Spring 2019, almost exactly a year after they recorded ‘All News Is Good News’. It was the weekend that daylight savings time started in Australia, and the studio was filled with the smell of the towering

Jasmine bush on the exterior back wall of the house. The record is subsequently filled with the optimism that comes with the impending warmer months and longer days in Australia. Recorded in their own
home studio in Melbourne, the production approach for 'Daylight Savings' is a big step up from their debut. Engineer, Henry Jenkins,
created enormous-sounding space within this record, using a great deal of creative analogue recording techniques and working in an expansive recording environment. The results are a sound that emulates the
massiveness of the late-60s Capitol Records.

‘Daylight Savings' was written collaboratively by the whole band and features the core Surprise Chef rhythm section. It expands upon where their debut left off with a leaning more towards 70's jazzfunk than soul
and a stronger focus on the rhythm section. There’s the epic drama, ebbs and flows of a vintage David Axelrod or Alain Goraguer cinematic production, plus the influence of El Michels Affair and Melbourne bands
Karate Boogaloo and The Putbacks, yet it still sounds uniquely Surprise Chef. You get a sense of that rare attribute of being both a contemporary band and a band you expect it won't be too long before other producers start sampling them.

Daylight Savings

Surprise Chef - The Limp

“A lovely jazz performance that soothes the soul”
— 6x NBA champion, basketball legend & jazz fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Mike Casey: Jazz For The Millennial Set”
— Huffington Post

saxophone-based artist & composer
GRAMMYs "NEXT" Class of 2023

No Church In The Wild (Intro)

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