Co-Pilot, by Mike Gebhart

Co-Pilot

by Mike Gebhart

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Kelsey Mines Love this song more and more each time I hear it! Favorite track: Chango.

Corie Love this album! I honestly can’t decide on just one favorite track! My current top 3 are Co-Pilot, Risas Y Nubes, and Chango.

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1.	Co-Pilot 02:40	buy track
2.	Arcade 01:44	buy track
3.	Pick Me Up 02:52	buy track
4.	After The Rain 01:54	buy track
5.	Glen Ghoul 01:00	buy track
6.	At Night 02:55	buy track
7.	Risas Y Nubes 02:02	buy track
8.	No Mail For Me 01:29	buy track
9.	Chango 01:52	buy track

about

We are always in duet with nature or life itself even.
Musically I like to think my ideas and me are in a dialogue. These songs were written for my own self soothing, or to get strength or feel comfort, or joy or let out tears.
The title track felt like a water song. Something about the rhythm reminded me of sailing with my dad. I can't remember if he mentioned this or if I thought of it or heard it somewhere, but sailing feels like the boat and the wind are the real captains and you are along for the ride helping guide the relationship of wind and boat. This articulated a feeling I have always felt in life. In some cases being a literal Co-Pilot. A passenger in the front seat, trying to give directions, picking out music or telling stories (mostly the last one). Each time i'm in that side seat I remember the other times and it is comforting and timeless.
The songs here are all quite different from each other but I think live together because I wrote them around the same time and they each serve a purpose for me. There isn't any improvising on this record. I came up with parts to the music but I wanted to go straight through the songs and let the songs do the talking. Simply put "no solos." It felt ridiculous to me to solo over layers of myself. I wanted to tell the stories of these songs as economically as possible.
This whole process was about learning, recording myself, writing lyrics in English and Spanish, mixing, mastering. The cover art is of me outside my tiny house where I lived for 2 years. I don't live there anymore and it's fitting that the release of this is a month after leaving that space. The space I was in writing most of the music and recording it all. It's a very homegrown record and I hope you enjoy it.

credits

released September 3, 2021

Composed, performed, recorded, and mixed by Mike Gebhart

Album cover photo taken by Eliana Glass

Special thanks to Ben Street, Casey Adams, Ivan Arteaga, Katie Jacobson, Ryan El-Solh and Carmen Rothwell.

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Mike Gebhart Queens, New York

Born in Cali, Colombia, raised in Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington, Mike went to the University of Washington for Jazz Studies and lived in Seattle for 5 years. In that time he co-created The Sky Is A Suitcase, and was a drummer for many projects in and around the historic Racer Sessions scene.

He currently lives in Rockaway Beach and records music for himself as well as others. ... more

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