Browse by Artist: WEXLER, MIKE

Artist:	WEXLER, MIKE
Title:	Sun Wheel
Label:	AMISH RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	AMI 027CD

"Sun Wheel is Mike Wexler's debut full-length and marks the arrival of an important new voice poised to be one of the stars of tomorrow's underground. Crafted slowly over more than a year, this recording evidences Wexler's careful attention to detail and his affinities for progressive rock and the Canterbury scene of the late '60s and early '70s. Wexler is joined on Sun Wheel by Jordi Wheeler and Charles Burst of The Occasion and Brian Tamborello of Psychic Ills, all of whom also contribute to the arrangement and instrumentation throughout this recording. Though there are hints of The Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt is a professed and revered influence), Quiet Sun, and Meddle-era Pink Floyd, Wexler's voice is completely contemporary and completely his own."

Artist:	WEXLER, MIKE
Title:	Axis, Road of Awe/Glyph
Label:	CASPIAN (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SEA 002EP

"The Caspian label is proud to present Mike Wexler. A Brooklyn musician whose name will no doubt be revered and uttered in hushed tones by those lucky to hear Wexler's music, for years to come. A virtuoso of sorts, without a scene or history to explain or contextualize his talent, Wexler seems to have arrived from nowhere to hypnotize us with quietly exotic songs that caress and unsettle in equal measure. Wexler seeks and finds unusual spaces within his songs, creating moments of lyrical and sonic tension that evoke Scott Walker's late work, arrangements that now include drums, piano and keyboards, two and three part harmonies and long, linear, labyrinthine instrumental passages. Wexler's lyrics avoid the confessional and favor instead the deep image, the mythic talisman. His voice functions on an instrumental level in the tradition of Annette Peacock or Elizabeth Fraser, though employed to different, more understated ends. Exaggerating the spaces between notes and between words, Wexler keeps the listener engaged but always once removed. 'Axis, Road of Awe' plumbs Bert Jansch-territory; but where Jansch's vocals are fragile and delicate, Mike's remain enigmatic. 'Axis, Road of Awe' was recorded at Exile, along with the rest of the album from which it is taken (Sun Wheel -- out now in the US on Amish Records)."

Artist:	WEXLER, MIKE
Title:	Sun Wheel
Label:	CHOUETTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	OUE 002LP

"Nearly two years after the release of a strikingly unique debut EP, Brooklyn-based artist Mike Wexler presents his debut album, Sun Wheel. Wexler's primary influences on Sun Wheel seem to draw from the Canterbury scene of the late '60s and early '70s and the psychedelic acid-folk era. Amidst a flurry of instrumental virtuosity, Sun Wheel investigates space, experimentation and restraint, striking a sonic mode between Soft Machine and Simon Finn. Arrangements from Wexler's cadre of friends (including Jordi Wheeler and Charles Burst of the Occasion and Brian Tamborello of the Psychic Ills) range from progressive rock's acute instrumental modulations to forays into atmospheric and hypnotic passages. Above the piano and guitar-led gallop of 'Southern Cross' and 'Cipher' or the subtly plucked promenades on 'Axis, Road of Awe' and 'Ecliptic,' Wexler's distinct vocals and lyrics narrate a beguiling journey. As a nod to the past and a glimpse of an exciting new future, Sun Wheel is an ethereal and radiant debut."

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