MICAH GAUGH (US) Rock / Electronica / Abstract

Micah Gaugh is the progenitor of Puppet. The current music project is from ‘highrise’, a ballet in which the protagonist is an artist who meets two women. One woman is an artist the other a business woman. The women meet and both relationships are lost, but the artist gains a showing in Paris. The music for Puppet was released as “Everything” on Matthew Herbert’s music label Accidental records. Micah Gaugh has collaborated with Lady Miss Kier from Dee-lite, Arto Lindsay band (2003-2008), Marc Ribot, James ‘Blood’ Ulmer, Melvin Gibbs, Vernon Reid and others in the studio and live performance. He has written two operas ‘Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights’ and a piece for the artist Rirkrit Taravanija featured in ‘il Postino di Tiempo’, music for the Matthew Barney movie ‘Di Lama
Lamina’ and a choral work entitled ‘Noise Mass’ commissioned by the Chiesa Rosa in Milan. James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins) collaborates with Micah Gaugh on remixes for the Sounds, Ladytron, and The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs.

He is currently featured on Jneiro Jarel's EP "Android Love Mayhem". He is now an artist on Jneiro's Label, Label Who.

Micah has also acted in the season five premier of ‘Sex in the City’ a play entitled ‘American Book of the Dead’ and is currently working with Melvin Van Peebles on a musical version of ‘Sweet Sweetbacks Badass Song.’ He paints and writes novels.

New record “The Blue Fairy Mermaid Princess” featuring Micah Gaugh (John Zorn, Cecil Taylor, Storm and Stress…) Kevin Shea (Storm and Stress, Talibam!) and Daniel Bodwell (Sinéad O’Connor) will be released on March 4 2013 on Africantape.

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