Album Notes

"World class songwriting with razor-edge performance; NO michael NO's success is assured. This career will be fun to watch" --Livingston Taylor, Singer/Sorngwriter

"The images in NO Michael NO's songs are things we've felt a thousand times but were never able to express. The lyrics do what good literary poetry is supposed to do-- lay it out, clean, surprising yet comfortable, shockingly intimate. When we listen, we are taken where good music is supposed to take us-- into and out of ourselves." --Paul Allen, Poet

The story is short-- four guys who met at Berklee College of Music in 1999 and started playing together shortly thereafter. Michael Flynn does keys, accordion, harmonica and vocals. Michael went to College of Charleston in South Carolina, where he goofed off, played in bands, and eventually defected to Boston, where he has won songwriting awards from SESAC, BMI (The John Lennon Scholarship), and Berklee itself. Josh Kaler plays guitar and sings; he's from Minnesota, and recently beat Mario Kart Special Cup on 150cc. Max Koteen plays the stand up bass and hails from California. So he must be cool. And Casey Tuck plays drums and comes from New Jersey, where he once knocked over a cymbal in perfect time at a middle school orchestra recital.

The group is currently performing all over the east coast in support of their new CD, "Music For The Flood." The record is a collection of songs that would never mix with each other at normal social gatherings, but on the CD, rollicking Guitar Rock puts its arm around a gentle Lullabye; a Country Waltz shuffles up to Beatlesque Pop and asks for a pack of matches; even the ghosts of Gershwin and Lounge Jazz show up for the free drinks. And somehow it works, everybody gets along. The songs are all distant relatives, connected by Flynn's sandpaper-meets-glass voice and some truly inspired arrangements by the band. Lyrically, the songs share a kind of awe for feeling overwhelmed, both in good ("If You've Heard This One Before") and bad ("Never Fall In Love Again") ways. Thus the album title. Still one gets the feeling that another meaning exists, that NO michael NO are creating a flood of their own. As Lockergnome.com puts it, "NO michael NO might just save the mainstream by going mainstream themselves."