About

Mike WT Allen

InstrumentLevel
Saxophone Professional
Composition/Songwriting Professional
Arranging Professional
Piano/Keyboards Semi-Pro
Other: Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Sax, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Bari Sax, Bass Sax, Oboe, Keys, Synth, Organ, Recording, Producing
Music. All kinds.
Graduated from jazz school, listen to heavy metal and classical and hip hop and whatever.
Discorder Magazine called me a "compositional tour-de-force"

Space Elevator - 20 person jazz-metal big band, sold out performance at Fox Cabaret
Big EviL - jazz punk quintet, headlining spot at Vancouver Jazz Festival
Key To Abyss - acoustic noise/free jazz quartet, opened for LA noise legend Author & Punisher
Many others, check http://www.mikewtallen.com/music/

Soundtracks for award winning short films A Gift For Amelia and Help Wanted
Commercial soundtracks for city of Nanaimo, Phyrra Jewelry

Compositions/commissions performed by Hard Rubber Orchestra, Ecstatic Waves, Mackenzie Jones Big Band, Royal Military College of Canada

Founder of Postmodern Records, a record label/collective focused on promoting exciting and exploratory music that might not otherwise be represented by a "label"

Performances, studio work, compositions, arrangements, transcriptions, recording, producing, mixing, lessons, all that stuff.

ARE YOU IMPRESSED YET?????
Please hire me
Love, Mike
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Current Projects

Big EviL
Composer/Baritone Saxophone
2011 - present
Ivy League Brawlers
Baritone Saxophone
2008 - present