About

Mike Smalle is a musician, songwriter and producer from Galway, Ireland. He has been releasing records under the names cane141, B-Movie Lightning and Augustus & John since the late 90s. During this time he has collaborated with Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Patrick Fitzgerald (Kitchens of Distinction) and has had his music remixed by Cristian Vogel (Super Collider), Sean O’Hagan (Microdisney/The High Llamas) and Irish composer Linda Buckley.

He has also recorded a number of radio sessions including several Fanning sessions (RTE) and a session for the late great John Peel in 2001. His 2005 album ‘Moon Pool’ was nominated for the inaugural Choice Music Prize in Ireland. His music has featured on a number of compilations most notably Cian O’Ciobhain’s ‘An Taobh Tuathail’ series, Chris Coco and Rob da Banks’ BBC Blue Room series and for The Mutek electronic music festival in Canada. Mike also writes music for film and documentaries, most notably with award winning film-maker Pat Collins. In 2007 he was awarded funding to exhibit a sound installation at Grace Gallery New York City. This was a collaboration with Irish artist Roisin Coyle. The CD’ Lost at Sea’ was released shortly afterwards and features stories from the late Commander Bill King, the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop, around-the-world yacht race, the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and the only person to command a British submarine on both the first and last days of World War II.

His music has been reviewed in the NME, Mojo, Uncut and albums have been included in Dan Hegarty’s ‘Buried Treasures’ book as well as ‘101 Irish Records you must hear before you die’ by Tony Clayton-Lea (Irish Times journalist).

Mike is currently working on a series of collaborations for the music and history project “Bring your own Hammer”.

Link: https://byohammer.com/