Mike Mangione's 7th release is a haunting and intimate collection of new, old and Peter Gabriel material. For two consecutive evenings in 2011, Mike Mangione and producer/friend Justin Heron set a mobil studio up in Mike's newly purchased house in Wisconsin. Having just released his 3rd effort, "Offering", Mike had a handful of songs leftover with

Mike Mangione's 7th release is a haunting and intimate collection of new, old and Peter Gabriel material. For two consecutive evenings in 2011, Mike Mangione and producer/friend Justin Heron set a mobil studio up in Mike's newly purchased house in Wisconsin. Having just released his 3rd effort, "Offering", Mike had a handful of songs leftover with nowhere to put them. Before his family could move anything into their new home, Mike and Heron decided to utilize the house's vaulted ceilings and wood floors for its sonic contribution. As simple as setting up, lighting a candle and pressing record, Heron and Mangione aimed to create an up close and raw soundscape that transports the listener into the room with them. The end result is the pure, peaceful and powerful "Kill The Blues Sessions".

The Three Days EP was a simple concept ... Introduce songs from the upcoming studio release in an honest and striped down form. So, in a studio in Milwaukee, we recorded three of the new songs and one cover song, each with different formations (solo, duo, three and four piece) and all on one microphone. The microphone was placed in the center of

The Three Days EP was a simple concept ... Introduce songs from the upcoming studio release in an honest and striped down form. So, in a studio in Milwaukee, we recorded three of the new songs and one cover song, each with different formations (solo, duo, three and four piece) and all on one microphone. The microphone was placed in the center of the room and the levels of each instrument are based off of the musician’s proximity to the mic.

Each song has its own video as well and can be seen at www.mikemangione.com/video

I encourage you to turn the lights low, the volume up and sit in with us. If you like the experience ... share it with others.

"Like a less-raspy Ray LaMontagne, or perhaps a huskier Jason Isbell, Milwaukee (by way of Chicago) singer-songwriter Mike Mangione’s got that soul thang going on in his voice – at once vulnerable enough to telegraph that he’s known heartache, yet with just the right hint of swagger to suggest he’s not afraid to take another chance at love. On

"Like a less-raspy Ray LaMontagne, or perhaps a huskier Jason Isbell, Milwaukee (by way of Chicago) singer-songwriter Mike Mangione’s got that soul thang going on in his voice – at once vulnerable enough to telegraph that he’s known heartache, yet with just the right hint of swagger to suggest he’s not afraid to take another chance at love. On Tenebrae (Latin for “shadows”), the followup to 2005’s There and Back, Mangione surrounds himself with some likeminded players – among them, guitar whiz brother Tom and Samples keyboard virtuoso Karl Dietel – as well as a three-piece string section, and the results light up the night with, well… you know. Soul" FRED MILLS, Blurt Magazine

"From the gentle acoustic folk-balladry of the bittersweet "Tonight," "Down the Road" and the closing track "Bow Down To You" to the more pop-influenced numbers, such as "Until We Meet Again," "Diamond Eyes" and the driving opening track "Girl from the Midwest," complete with a percolating rhythm and Mangione's own passion-drenched vocal delivery,

"From the gentle acoustic folk-balladry of the bittersweet "Tonight," "Down the Road" and the closing track "Bow Down To You" to the more pop-influenced numbers, such as "Until We Meet Again," "Diamond Eyes" and the driving opening track "Girl from the Midwest," complete with a percolating rhythm and Mangione's own passion-drenched vocal delivery, this entertaining album suggests that some of Mangione's own influences come by way of Jeff Buckley and Ryan Adams." Tony Bonyata-www.concertlivewire.com