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MWF is a pseudonym of Mark Flake (born 1960, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American painter and sculptor, but is best known as an avant-garde musician. His surreal and expressionistic oil paintings have been exhibited across the United States, and his graphic art appears on album and compact disc covers throughout the States and in Europe and Australia, primarily on releases from the Wood Records avant garde and outsider music label which he founded, and with which he has an on again/off again relationship. He has appeared on more than fifty albums and compact discs. His early releases were homemade cassette tapes released by his own cassette only label, Wyndam Garage. ==Music== In 1999, he founded Wood Records and gave compact disc releases of his back catalog, and has continued to release his own works at the rate of approximately two discs per year. The music runs through a wide variety of stylistic categories that includes everything from folk and experimental rock, to avante garde jazz, punk and noise, to serious chamber compositions and music concrete. MWF is also known for a number of albums that parody other styles including metal and hip-hop. ''Radio Revolution'' described his work as "the perfect blend of Leonard Cohen and Captain Beefheart", but he has most often been compared stylistically to The Residents and to Frank Zappa. His best known recordings are probably ''Selling Grit'' (1997), a more or less satirical pop rock album, and ''Singles on Wheels'', (2001) a self-selected greatest hits compilation that included an edited version of the song "Monster Karaoke" which would be his best selling single. As a performer, he is best known as an electric guitar soloist and improviser, but has also released acoustic guitar works similar in style to the later works of John Fahey, albeit with a more sinister tone. As a guitarist, he has been part of a number of music ensembles, including the Blenders, the Willards, EllenM, and the Ants. His own live group, the MWF trio, has had a shifting line-up that has included performance artist and cornetist Barry Arthur and harmonica virtuoso Bhopal Whitaker. He has also produced a variety of collaborative works with artists such as San Francisco guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Indiana multi-instrumentalist Zed Salt, and North Carolina experimentalists The Optimysticals. In 2008, he worked as half of the duo, Wonderhell, with Ecuadorian percussionist Emmanuel Sortito. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MWF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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