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"UNICYCLING TOWARDS ETERNITY: How Mike & Joe Became Baroque Pop's Best Kept Secret"
Mike Benoit (b. 1994) and Joe Provenzano’s (b. 1995) collaboration came early, — a fact of consanguinity. As cousins, the humble fact seemed to them the equivalent of a Cibola-sized genetic inheritance. Having optimized the force of autonomy in their individual lives, they enthusiastically endeavored upon forging a world of creation easily shared.
Together, they made two albums, an EP, and 3 nearly finished, full-length side-projects. These projects included "Illusion of Pattern," a record by a fictional girl group called The Syrettes — Provenzano’s idea — titled after the morphine syrettes Beat writer William S. Burroughs got addicted to while in the Merchant Marines — and styled after the great 60s girl groups from Detroit and LA.
In Early June of 2022, Mike & Joe went on indefinite hiatus. Whether they ever make music together again remains to be seen. What's clear is that the music they’ve left us is special: 2018’s "Food for an American Bomb" and 2020’s "What About You?" have the potential to impact a generation of songwriters that don’t yet know they exist. May epochs stumble forth from these plectrums, pens and brushes; and may generations to come unearth the work of these Baroque Pop maestros and mine it for all there is to find there.
2023
Mike Benoit (b. 1994) and Joe Provenzano’s (b. 1995) collaboration came early, — a fact of consanguinity. As cousins, the humble fact seemed to them the equivalent of a Cibola-sized genetic inheritance. Having optimized the force of autonomy in their individual lives, they enthusiastically endeavored upon forging a world of creation easily shared.
Together, they made two albums, an EP, and 3 nearly finished, full-length side-projects. These projects included "Illusion of Pattern," a record by a fictional girl group called The Syrettes — Provenzano’s idea — titled after the morphine syrettes Beat writer William S. Burroughs got addicted to while in the Merchant Marines — and styled after the great 60s girl groups from Detroit and LA.
In Early June of 2022, Mike & Joe went on indefinite hiatus. Whether they ever make music together again remains to be seen. What's clear is that the music they’ve left us is special: 2018’s "Food for an American Bomb" and 2020’s "What About You?" have the potential to impact a generation of songwriters that don’t yet know they exist. May epochs stumble forth from these plectrums, pens and brushes; and may generations to come unearth the work of these Baroque Pop maestros and mine it for all there is to find there.
2023
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