Review Fix Exclusive: Mik Talks ‘The Nation’ And More

November 10, 2016 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with singer/songwriter Mik, who discusses his new track and video, “The Nation.”

About Mik:

Mik is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist originally from Italy. From the early days as a child, when he was 12 years old, Mik started writing his own songs and always learning and playing cover songs along the way. He studied guitar, bass and piano while developing his voice as a singer.

Mik trained with various well known Italian songwriters and vocal coaches: Giuseppe Anastasi, Giuseppe Barbera, Piero and Massimo Calabrese, Fulvio Tomaino, Paola Folli, Danila Satragno.

In 2006 Mik trained for six months with Italian jazz singer Laura Scomparcini using the Voicecraft Method. Soon after, Mik’s first band called The Photonik performed at the Highfield Festival on the MTV/Coca-Cola stage in Hohenfelden, Germany. The Photonik performed in front of 5.000 fans as the Opening Act for Ash and the Kaiser Chiefs.

Review Fix: What inspired “The Nation”?

Mik: My simultaneous love for travel, and also for my roots. I know it is a contradiction. But I love it.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Mik: The process always starts with myself sitting somewhere with a guitar. The songs come to visit you if the day is good. For example, last time I wrote a song while I was changing my guitar strings. And then there’s so much work to do, lyrics, arrangements, production, recordings, re-recordings, mastering. Normally I produce from 4 to 8-10 versions of the song to find my favourite one, sometimes it happens that the first one remains good, sometimes not. I don’t like to hear too much postproduction in my works, I prefer a natural feel, so what is perfect for me, maybe is absolutely wrong for another listener.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2017?

Mik: Nine more songs, nine more videos, nine more stories; put all of them in a cd/dvd, supporting this project with gigs all around European and American Clubs.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Mik: My wish is to relax people, make them feel comforted and cuddled by my music, even when it beats more.

Review Fix: How do you want this song to be remembered?

Mik: As an honest quite good song. With a good video that expands the meaning of words and music.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Mik: Gigs, gigs, gigs! In Italy, in Europe, soon in America.

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

Mik: Please don’t forget to watch the video realized for the song on my YouTube Channel and check my recent work with my band THE PANICLES. Let me know if you like it or not, if you want you can contact me on my FB Page (facebook.com/mikprofile).

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14263 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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