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词条 Booka Michel
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  1. Early life and career

  2. Film scoring and production career

  3. References

  4. External links

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Booka Michel is an American musician and film producer.

Early life and career

Michel was born October 15, 1954 and grew up in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.[1] He moved to Austin, Texas in 1976 with his brother Carl Michel.[1] There he served as a session and tour percussionist for musicians including Hoyt Axton, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Arthur Brown, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Townes Van Zandt.[2] There Michel also founded Loudhouse Records in Austin, Texas.[3]

Film scoring and production career

Michel is the leader of his eponymous band Booka and the Flaming Geckos. The Geckos are longtime Austin musicians John X. Reed (Doug Sahm, Jimmy Dale Gilmore), Cindy Cashdollar (Bob Dylan, Van Morrison) and Glen Fukunaga (Joe Ely, The Dixie Chicks). They have released independent albums as well as produced the soundtracks to several independent movies. In 2009 the band released the soundtrack album for the film Baghdad Texas. The album made several Top 20 American Roots charts in the US over several months, including the Freeform American Roots Chart from July to September 2009.[4][5][6] The album covered three genres of music, each based on the ethnicity of the film's main characters: Latin, Americana and Middle Eastern.[7] Country Weekly wrote that the blend had a "brief but enjoyable running time".[8]

Michel also produced the film, which Variety states had "An inventive weirdo premise and a strong assortment of regional thesp[ian]s" from Texas.[9] In 2011 the band released the soundtrack album The Not So Meaningful Songs in the Life of Jeremy Fink, written for Tamar Halpern's film adaptation of the children's book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life and starring Mira Sorvino and Joe Pantoliano. Bill Bentley wrote of the album that, "The sounds of folk, bluegrass, some Civil War-inspired songs and, yes, even a taste of Acid Western captured with utter cool by Booka Michel and his Geckos feels like an accidental discovery of something quite cosmic. Happy accidents abound."[10]

Frank John Hadley of Downbeat Magazine wrote, “String music spun from the rich loam of the past, but laden with fresh nutrients, [it] illuminates the dignity of ordinary rural folks of years long gone. [This] new album featuring acoustic string instruments upholds a romantic ideal without sounding anachronistic. No familiarity with the film necessary to enjoy fully formed songs and brief atmospheric passages."

Under his own Loudhouse imprint, he has produced chart-topping albums for artists such as Mike Kindred and David Olney.

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.carlmichel.com/carlmichel.com/BIOGRAPHY.html |title=Carl Michael Biography |accessdate=November 11, 2013}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.sonicscoop.com/tag/booka-michels/#sthash.Pp519h73.dpuf |title=Event Alert: Baghdad, Texas Has NYC Premier Tonight, Friday August 27, At Quad Cinema |accessdate=November 11, 2013 |author=David Weiss |date=August 27, 2010 |publisher=SonicScoop}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.prx.org/pieces/88521-centerstage-minnesota-booka-michel-of-booka-and-t#description |title=Centerstage Minnesota: Booka Michel of Booka and the Flaming Geckos talks to Charlie Pulkrabek |publisher=PRX |accessdate=November 11, 2013}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tcmnradio.com/far/far120.htm |title=FREEFORM AMERICAN ROOTS CHART - July 2009 |publisher=3rd Coast Magazine |accessdate=November 11, 2013}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tcmnradio.com/far/far121.htm |title=FREEFORM AMERICAN ROOTS CHART - August 2009 |publisher=3rd Coast Magazine |accessdate=November 11, 2013}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tcmnradio.com/far/far122.htm |title=FREEFORM AMERICAN ROOTS CHART - September 2009 |publisher=3rd Coast Magazine |accessdate=November 11, 2013}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=58512 |title=All-star List Of Austin Musicians Form Nucleus Of Booka & The Flaming Geckos, Make Acclaimed Soundtrack For Baghdad Texas, Which Opens August 27 At New York's Quad Cinema |accessdate=November 11, 2013 |date=November 8, 2010 |publisher=Top 40 Charts}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.countryweekly.com/reviews/baghdad-texas-music-motion-picture-soundtrack |publisher=Country Weekly |accessdate=November 11, 2013 |title=Baghdad Texas: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/baghdad-texas-1117943384/ |title=Review: ‘Baghdad, Texas’ |author=Ronnie Scheib |date=August 24, 2010 |accessdate=November 11, 2013 |publisher=Variety}}
10. ^{{cite web |author=Bill Bentley |url=http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/music/bentleys-bandstand-year-end-wrap-up-volume-i/ |date=December 22, 2011 |accessdate=November 11, 2013 |title=Bentley's Bandstand: Year End Wrap-Up Volume I |publisher=The Morton Report}}

External links

  • Loudhouse Music
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