Michael Schatte – Hard Ticket (2006)

Artist: Michael Schatte
Release: Hard Ticket
Year: 2006
Home: Originally from Chatham

   Michael began his early career in music in a Chatham blues band called Midnight Mojo.
   Michael Schatte:  all vocals and instruments including electric, acoustic, and 12 string guitars; drums; electric bass; mandolin; violin; German button accordion; piano accordion; organ, piano, and electric piano synths; harmonica; and various percussive items
   All songs written by Michael Schatte except tracks 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 12

   Recorded at Mithrandir Studios, Chatham, ON, Canada between the months of May and August, 2005
Mastered by Bob Hiltz at Eyrespace Studios, Chatham, ON

   Though Hard Ticket is unapologetically guitar-driven, it also showcases Michael’s considerable chops on both the mandolin and violin, both of which add wonderful colour to the album’s already diverse palette. There’s something on this record for everyone – searing blues, rootsy pop-rock, bluegrass, New Orleans flavoured “feel-good music”, country, folk and even instrumental celtic-rock – it’s both difficult to categorize and easy to enjoy!

1. Turn
2. Room For Me 
3. Hey Pocky Way
4. Crying Uncle  
5. The Hardest Part
6. Tear Stained Letter
7. If You Be My Baby 
8. Slow Burn 
9. All Work and No Play
10. Tipsy On the Cork
11. Under A Stormy Sky
12. Big Chimney
13. Aspasia  mp3 snippet
14. Five Alive

Visit Michael Schatte on the web at www.michaelschatte.com.

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Michael Schatte Educational Concert Series (2009)

Michael Schatte

CD Cover

Band: Michael Schatte’s
CD Release: Crow Filled Sky
Year: 2009

Tracks
1  Where Did It Go Wrong
2  That’s Romance
3  One More Time
4  Rosaleen
5  Crow Filled Sky
6  Low Low Low
7  Constantinople
8  To You
9  Say No
10 This Time Last Year
11  Okay Blues
12  Pixilated Sweetheart
13  Whisky and Wodehouse
14  As If He Knew
15  Hail the Jolly Luckless

All songs written by Michael Schatte (SOCAN)
Produced, Recorded, and Mixed by Michael Schatte at Mithrandir Studios, Chatham, ON, Canada

Website: http://www.michaelschatte.com/

 Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter Michael Schatte will be performing regularly at schools across South Western Ontario during the 2008/2009 school year.

   Students will be exposed to a wide variety of musical styles (blues, celtic, rock, medieval, folk etc.) demonstrated on several different instruments, and interspersed with informative commentary regarding the instruments, their history, and the way in which Michael uses them.

   Being a professional musician as well as having recently completed his Masters degree in history, Michael is in a unique position to share his enthusiasm and first-rate skill in a manner both educational and highly entertaining.

 

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