Mike Mogis
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Background information | |
Birth name | Michael Riley Mogis |
Origin | North Platte, Nebraska |
Genre(s) | Indie Rock Folk Alt-Country |
Occupation(s) | Guitarist Producer |
Instrument(s) | Guitar Mandolin Dobro Lap Steel Pedal Steel Banjo 12-string Guitar |
Years active | 1996 – Present |
Label(s) | Saddle Creek Records |
Associated acts | Bright Eyes |
Mike Mogis is a Nebraskan producer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist who, along with his brother A.J. Mogis, founded Presto! Recording Studios (previously known as Dead Space Recording and, earlier, Whoopass Recording).
Mike has engineered, produced, and performed in many of the releases on the Saddle Creek label, including records by Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, The Good Life, Lullaby for the Working Class, and Jenny Lewis. He is also producing an album for Rachael Yamagata.
He has become a permanent member of Bright Eyes, and was also a member of both Lullaby for the Working Class and We'd Rather Be Flying, generally playing guitar, although he also plays mandolin, banjo, pedal steel, glockenspiel, and hammered dulcimer among other instruments.
Mogis recently worked with Lightspeed Champion, aka Devonte Hynes, former member of Test Icicles, on his debut album Falling Off the Lavender Bridge.
He has a young daughter named Stella, who appears on the Bright Eyes album Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, with his wife Jessica.
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[edit] Album appearances
see also albums by Bright Eyes.
[edit] 1997
[edit] 1998
- Bright Eyes - Letting off the Happiness (1998 · Saddle Creek)
- Bright Eyes - Every Day and Every Night (1999 · Saddle Creek)
[edit] 2000
- Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (2000 · Saddle Creek Records)
- Cursive - Domestica (2000, Saddle Creek)
- Melon Galia - Les embarras du quotidien (2000 · Les disques mange-tout)
- Songs: Ohia - Ghost Tropic (2000 · Secretly Canadian)
[edit] 2001
[edit] 2002
- Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002 · Saddle Creek)
- 8 Teeth to Eat You (2002, Better Looking Records
[edit] 2003
[edit] 2004
- Azure Ray - New Resolution (2004 · Saddle Creek)
- Bright Eyes - Lua (Single) (2004 · Saddle Creek)
- Bright Eyes - Take It Easy (Love Nothing)) (2004 · Saddle Creek)
- Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (2004 · Crank! Records)
- Broken Spindles - fulfilled/complete (2004 · Saddle Creek)
- Cursive - The Recluse (2004 · Saddle Creek)
- The Elected - Me First (2004 · Sub Pop)
- The Faint - Wet from Birth (2004 · Saddle Creek)
- The Faint - I Disappear (2004 · Saddle Creek)
- The Good Life - Album of the Year (2004 · Saddle Creek)
- Johnathan Rice - Extended Player 24:26 (2004 · Reprise/Wea)
- Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (2004 · Brute/Beaute)
- The Saddest Landscape - Lift Your Burdens High for This is Where We Cross (2004)
- Statistics - Leave Your Name (2004 · Jade Tree)
[edit] 2005
- Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005 · Saddle Creek)
- Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital urn (2005 · Saddle Creek)
- Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness (2005 · Team Love)
- Johnathan Rice - Trouble Is Real (2005 · Reprise/Wea)
- Johnathan Rice - Kiss Me Goodbye (2005)
- Son, Ambulance - Key (2005 · Saddle Creek Records)
- Maria Taylor - 11:11 (2005 · Saddle Creek Records)
[edit] 2006
- The Concretes - The Concretes in Colour (2006 · Astralwerks)
- Cursive - Happy Hollow (2006 · Saddle Creek)
- Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (2006 · Team Love Records)
- Men, Women & Children - Men, Women & Children (2006 · Reprise/Wea)
- M. Ward - Post-War (2006 · Merge Records)
[edit] 2007
- Bright Eyes - Four Winds (2007 · Saddle Creek)
- Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (2007 · Saddle Creek)
[edit] 2008
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