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Michael Landau (born in 1958) is a session musician and guitarist who has played on albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, Steve Perry, Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Wilson Phillips, Amy Holland, Joni Mitchell, Richard Marx, Miles Davis and Vasco Rossi.

Along with fellow session guitarists Waddy Wachtel, Steve Lukather and Dann Huff, he played on many major label releases recorded in LA during the 1980s-1990s. He has reportedly appeared on over 600 albums and soundtrack recordings.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, as a teenager he quickly became very interested in jazz and electric jazz music. In the mid-1970s he toured the west coast as part of The Robben Ford Band, at 19 joined Boz Scaggs for a world tour and by the age of 20 he started to do session work. Notable sessions over the coming years would include Richard Marx, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, B. B. King, James Taylor, Seal, Ray Charles and Rod Stewart.

In 1984, he toured and recorded with Joni Mitchell, and appears on the Mitchell DVD Refuge of the Roads. In 1989 he released his first solo studio album Tales from the Bulge, an instrumental record released in Japan and on Creatchy Records in the US. In 1990 he formed the blues rock band "Burning Water" with his brother Teddy Landau, David Frazee and Carlos Vega; this band put out four discs of original material and played in Japan and the USA.

In 1993 he won the readers' poll for "Best Studio Guitarist" in "Guitar Player Magazine" and in 1994 formed "The Raging Honkies" with Teddy Landau and Abe Laboriel Jr. They released 2 discs and toured Europe and the US. In 2001 he released a double live album of original material and a studio album The Star Spangled Banner on his own label 'Unconscious Records'.

He currently tours and performs with his own group, The Wreckers, Robben Ford, The Jazz Ministry, Stolen Fish, Hazey Jane and James Taylor. His most recent project, a double live album was released in October 2006 in the USA, Europe and Japan.

In the early 1980s, he was also in the band Maxus that featured future Los Angeles session musician stalwarts Robbie Buchanan, Jay Gruska, and Doane Perry. Landau was also in competition with high school bandmate Lukather to become the guitarist for Toto in the late 1970s.

Michael Landau is married to singer/songwiter/guitarist Karen Martin Landau, with whom he performs in the bands Stolen Fish and Hazey Jane. His brother Teddy Landau is married to singer-songwriter Michelle Branch.

His current band, The Michael Landau Group, undertook a 16-date European tour in April 2007


ABOUT THE ALBUM

"Mood Elevator", the awesome second studio disc from BURNING WATER (featuring axemaster supreme MICHAEL LANDAU on guitar), showcases 10 killer trax (49 minutes) of outstanding, powerful, dynamic, intense, bad-ass, bluesy, retro-70's Hendrix-inspired heavy guitar power trio grooves that will trip your brain hard.

Michael Landau is one of the best guitarists in the world. Period. Definitely one of our favorite axemasters @ the Grooveyard. On the BURNING WATER: “Mood Elevator” disc, he waves his Hendrix-freak flag high with raw, gorgeous, passionate, brilliant guitar playing. His world class signature & explosive fretwork breathes fire with every note he plays. Michael Landau is an incredible technical monster with serious chops galore, tones & sounds, complete with an abundance of get-down, righteous Hendrix-ian bluesy feel. The man is a virtual modern-day white Hendrix. As an added bonus, and as tribute to Jimi, there is a passionate, deep, beautiful version of “Burning Of The Midnight Lamp” found on the “Mood Elevator” disc. BURNING WATER also features brother Teddy Landau on bass, Carlos Vega on drums & David Frazee on vox, all incredible players in their own rite who add magic to the organic, retro-70’s bluesy heavy guitar power trio grooves. The band digs in deep to produce their best/heaviest disc to date.

The BURNING WATER: “mood elevator” disc is an awesome bluesy heavy guitar monster that is HIGHLY recommended to fans of JIMI HENDRIX (long live the musical spirit of JIMI), ROBIN TROWER, FRANK MARINO, S.R.V., ERIC GALES, DOYLE BRAMHALL, ERIC JOHNSON, JOE BONAMASSA, INDIGENOUS, CRAIG ERICKSON, BUDDAHEADS, LANCE LOPEZ, SKY HIGH & CLAS YNGSTROM, KAMCHATKA, PLANKTON and just about any other outstanding killer Hendrix-inspired axerippers who take their guitars into the next dimension.

The BURNING WATER: “mood elevator” disc is all about top-shelf bluesy heavy guitar rock that will satisfy even the most hard-core guitar freaks worldwide. If you heavily dig outstanding bluesy heavy guitar riffage, do yourself a favor and tune into MICHAEL LANDAU on the phenomenal BURNING WATER: “mood elevator” disc. A “must have” essential addition to your heavy guitar collection. 


Track 1  	Brave New World (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
Track 2 	Doin Myself (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
Track 3 	Mood Elevator (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
Track 4 	Burning of the Midnight Lamp (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
Track 5 	Cant Buy My Way Home (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
Track 6 	Fun Thang
Track 7 	Pro Life Pro Choice
Track 8 	Watch it Burn
Track 9 	Save Sweet Sister
Track 10 	Killing Time