soundcloud.com/particlekidI am a human person called Micah Nelson. This is my solo project P∆RticLeKid. I make music with my hands and my face, with other things that exist, including other persons, human and/or not. i have been recording samples from my life travels, from nature, animals, spirits, towns, cities, friends, folks, Earth, etc, for the past 5 years and have finally begun to conglomerate them into harmonic sound. P∆RticLeKid is an organic, experimental concoction of recorded samples using an SP-404 and live-instrumentation, including but not limited to: a charango from Ecuador that was shattered in 3 pieces and miraculously brought back to life, my brothers old 3/4 size violin from when he was 6 that he never played, a cajon from Uruguay painted by myself and life-long friend Tato, chaos pad, loop station, drums, my voice, a baby taylor acoustic guitar, found objects, stolen objects, free objects, hands, fingers, teeth, a sitar my dear friend Katie Rose gave me on my 17th birthday which broke but then she brilliantly patched it up using a paper mache collage of images of our artwork, gadgets, gizmos, toys, bottles, books, bicycle spokes, as well as instrument/sculptures which i've invented and built myself. I have collaborated with Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real; my brothers band,doing live-paintings and percussion, Insects vs Robots; my fellow knights of The Cozy Castle, our magical urban warehouse sanctuary in L.A., The Reflectacles; my folk brethren of The Wiley Post of Manchester, Dr. Strangeloop; mad genius from off the Brainfeeder label, and most recently with Wave Hands Like Clouds, Tyler Norton & Aaron Oberlin, two other like-spirited humans here on Earth with whom my path has been serendipitously aligned. We are currently working on the next album, Our Alien Life Form, hopefully to be released next month, December 2010. Stay tuned and alive. ∞