{"id":1067,"date":"2016-09-02T21:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/?page_id=1067"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:59:07","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/?page_id=1067","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Played\u00a0keyboards\u00a0on two Thomas Dolby albums including Aliens Ate My Buick<\/em>\u00a0which garnered two Grammy nominations including one for Thomas and the band as arrangers<\/a>. Toured with Dolby as part of his backing band The Lost Toy People and worked as a video game composer for Dolby’s ‘Headspace’ multimedia company.<\/p>\n

Played synths on the Mingo Lewis\u00a0Flight Never Ending <\/em>fusion album on Columbia Records.<\/p>\n

Credits also include work in television with projects as varied as producing club tracks for television soaps, recording and mixing music for HBO and network television films, and for Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh’s (DEVO) music production company.<\/p>\n

Recorded and mixed music for photographer\/director\u00a0 Bruce Weber’s feature film The Chop Suey Club<\/em>\u00a0featuring jazz great Bud Shank and the late pianist Bill Evans’ drummer Joe LaBarbera.<\/p>\n

Worked on national television commercials as a music mixer and recording engineer. Clients included 3Com (Palm), Acura, Afrin, MCI, Levis, Volvo, and Abercrombie and Fitch.<\/p>\n

Album engineering credits include a soundtrack related album for Roman Polanski’s film The Pianist<\/em>, world music duo Willie and Lobo’s Siete<\/em> album,\u00a0songwriter Phil Roy’s grouchyfriendly<\/em> album. <\/em>Mixed and mastered Georgia singer\/songwriter Josephine Johnson’s EP Double High Five.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mixed bassist John Leftwich and Brazilian guitarist Ricardo Silveira’s full-length, Cosmos\u00a0<\/em>(2017).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Produced, recorded, and mixed the Ryan Bridwell<\/a> album\u00a0La Prima<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and his just released album The Road Ahead.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mixed L.A. jazz singer Kathy Segal-Garcia’s 2019 album\u00a0Straight Ahead To The U.K \u00a0<\/em><\/a>and her new release Social Anthems Volume 2 <\/em>which includes my remix of the Marvin Gaye song Inner City Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mixed and mastered the soundtrack album for director Bruce Weber’s\u00a0Robert Mitchum documentary Nice Girls Don\u2019t Stay for Breakfast.<\/em>\u00a0Featured artists dueting with Mitchum on the album are Ricki Lee Jones, Dr. John, and Marianne Faithful.<\/p>\n

Mixed and mastered Persian L.A. based singer Sussan Deyhim’s<\/a>\u00a0La Belle et<\/span> La Bete<\/span><\/em>\u00a0album, a jazz\/fusion\/world project. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mixed and mastered jazz guitarist Michael O’Neill’s (George Benson) forthcoming release.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mixed the Chet Baker double album Swimming By Moonlight.<\/em> Released November 2025.<\/p>\n

Mixed and mastered percussionist Brad Dutz’s 2025 release Enthusiasm- Enjoyment-Acceptance<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Four CDs of original music released. 500 Megs Fine!<\/em>\u00a0in 1995 and Believe It!<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in 2007. Available direct or on iTunes or CD Baby. Under the artist name ‘Kapitan’ album was released March 2018. Album title is Be <\/em><\/a>and download is available from CD Baby<\/a>. Sketches Of Spin, <\/em><\/span>an album of jazztronica dropped in August 2022.\u00a0Listen on Apple Music, YouTube, and the usual streaming sites.<\/p>\n

Check out my old psychedelic jazz project, Miles Ahead Group<\/a>, on YouTube. \u00a0Other artists I’ve worked with include Van Morrison’s daughter Shana Morrison<\/a>, Lagos Roots Afrobeat Ensemble, and singer-songwriter Martha Davis.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Played\u00a0keyboards\u00a0on two Thomas Dolby albums including Aliens Ate My Buick\u00a0which garnered two Grammy nominations including one for Thomas and the band as arrangers. Toured with Dolby as part of his backing band The Lost Toy People and worked as a video game composer for Dolby’s ‘Headspace’ multimedia company. Played synths on the Mingo Lewis\u00a0Flight Never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1067","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1067\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekapitan.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}