>Singer/Songwriter/Drummer/Percussionist. Michael D’Agostino creates music ranging from his unique blend of pop-rock to world influenced techno-tribal to ambient weaving a deep rhythmic tapestry throughout. Michael utilizes a variety of instruments from acoustic and electronic drums to a wide assortment of percussion instruments including:frame drum, djembe, dumbek, tibetan bells, shakers and singing bowls. He also plays keyboards and is...
The ancient voice of striking a membrane resonates a historic journey through the eons of time. Mother Africa is calling and we are all invited. It’s time to heal this place and the drum is setting the rhythm for all to join in the dance. Time to move, time to groove, shake loose the tattered past, it’s all beginning...
This is one of my kit's made by Chris Brady, made from Australian's own Jarrah wood, these drums speak in a pure articulate voice.....
Music...this invisible medium, beckons new dimensions beyond time.
Let the drums sing, the voice dance and the crescendo soarBlue Halo Effect is in the studio finishing their first full length release. David Bigin handing guitars, keyboards, vocals and bass while Michael is credited with drums, vocals, percussion and keyboards. BHE has been an intensely personal project for me on many levels, and I am thrilled to be nearing the release this music.
INNERrOUTe is a new quartet featuring Rick Savage on trumpet, Joe Tranchina on piano and Bill McCrossen on upright bass and MD on drums. We are nearing completion of our first full length release. We have been creating beautiful improvisations. Although based in jazz, we visit and cross pollinate many styles and genres, from world, funk to pop and latin.
Atomic Peach Boy has been mixing several songs at recorded at Intuitive Music. Featuring David Biglin on Guitars and Vocals, Chris Breetveld on Bass and Vocals and myself on Drums and vocals. We play gems from the 60′s through 80′s.
Trey Gunn is re-releasing his 2nd CD “The Joy of Molybdenum” and I’m on two of the bonus tracks. I remember recording them at Trey’s studio when we both lived in NYC. I’m looking forward to hearing the mix’s.
David Biglin and I just completed Scott Kay Jewelers new 2 min short, filmed in Paris . David composed a very cool piece which I played drums/engineered and mix’d.
I recently worked on the score for Indie Film “Sweet Lorraine”, starring Academy award winning actress Tatum O’Neal, written and directed by Christopher Frieri for Ghostlimbfilms. Also stars Steven Bauer (Scarface) and Peter Green (“Zed” from Pulp Fiction). I was the drummer and percussionist for a score by David Biglin. I also engineered the music with DB and myself handling the mixing.
Newly released “Bass Guitar Excercises” for Dummies” Book by Patrick Pfeiffer. A companion book to last years Bass Guitar for Dummies Vol. II. I engineered/mix’d/mastered a trio for the books enclosed CD featuring Patrick on bass and Sean Harkness on guitar and myself on drums. Recently released, “Bass Guitar Excersises for Dummies” is a best seller on Amazon.com
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Storytelling in songform, a tradition for milennia
Blue Halo Effect is a pop/rock duo that takes its listeners on a cosmic musical adventure transporting them across a wide variety of musical genres, which, as a whole, come together to create a sound of unsurpassed “cinematic” scope. This is music in 3-D. The result is both new and familiar; it’s classic pop for the new Millennium. Think Pink Floyd, The Killers and The Band mixed together and beamed into the future!
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