Mark Steiner (musician)

Mark Steiner & His Problems
Birth name Mark Steiner
Also known as Piker, Piker Ryan
Born 26 January 1970
Genres Post-punk
Occupation(s) musician, songwriter, film maker
Years active 1988-present
Labels Stagger Records (Paris), Z-Man Records (Melbourne), Plug Ugly Records (New York City), Rabben Records (Oslo)
Associated acts Mark Steiner, Mark Steiner & His Problems, Mark Steiner & The Fallen Birds, Mark Steiner & The Debauchery, Mark Steiner & The Broken Men, Mark Steiner & The Broken Birds, Piker Ryan, Kundera, Piker Ryan's Folly, The Mirror Reveals, Madrugada, Spencer P. Jones, Loene Carmen
Website Stagger Home Music, Stagger Records (France), Z-Man Records (Australia)
Notable instruments
Fender Jaguar Baritone Special HH guitar and Washington J-9 Semi-acoustic guitar (manufactured by Washburn Guitars)

Mark Steiner & His Problems (born Mark Steiner, 26 January 1970) is a Norwegian-American rock musician, guitarist and songwriter.

In 1997, through a classified ad in The Village Voice, Steiner started a band called Piker Ryan's Folly. It gave its last performance in 2000 at CBGB, at an event[1] intended to save a neighboring tenement building, 295 Bowery, from demolition. Afterwards Eric Wolter and Steiner started a new band called Kundera, which featured violinist Susan Mitchell and Jerome O'Brien on string bass. In 2001, Steiner moved to Oslo, Norway and performed as a soloist at the 2003 Iceland Airwaves Festival and the 2004 Øyafestivalen. In 2006, he contributed a track to a tribute CD for Australian musician Rowland S. Howard. After a European mini-tour as "Piker Ryan", he played a solo tour of Portugal. He recorded songs in Paris and New York for a debut solo CD Fallen Birds. In 2009, a second record "Broken" was released in a two-CD edition by Z-Man Records. In late 2014, he released "Saudade" under the name "Mark Steiner & His Problems," which features both original works as well as interpretations of songs by deceased artists Billie Holiday, Lou Reed, Bruno Adams, Robert Burås, and Rowland S. Howard. He has performed as an opening act for Michael Gira, Kid Congo Powers, Devendra Banhart, Mick Harvey, Madrugada, Norwegian singer Ingrid Olava, Rowland S. Howard, Hugo Race and others.

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