Since 2004, Mike Vasas.com has been the promotional home for Mike Vasas, a Michigan native who has been singing, writing, performing, arranging, producing, engineering music since the mid-1990s when he was a just teenager.
Most comfortable making records and working with various digital media, Vasas is also an educator who works with students of all ages.
The Pledge
Have you heard Vasas’s song released on Election Eve 2016? Here is a lyric video of the song. Hope it still resonates.
Mike Vasas III
Released in 2016, Mike Vasas III is Vasas’s most recent full-length record of original pop music featuring Vasas’s vocals. It is the first (or third?) in trilogy of self-titled records.
Willful Clemency At Daggers Drawn
Released in October of 2023, Willful Clemency At Daggers Drawn is Vasas’s most recent full-length instrumental record. Beginning with near silence, the instrumental work swells to include chamber strings, radio and tape loops, modular synthesizer, tenor saxophone, trombone and trumpet.
You’d Understand
(Songs by Wilco)
In June of 2022, Vasas released a cover celebrating the anniversary of the start of coupling with his future-wife; an anniversary that also coincided with the release of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The cover recording features an arrangement that references every song from the record.
Songs Not By Your Parents Vol. III
A covers record released in 2020 for the birth of their third child, this record features performances by the new baby’s older siblings and a rendition of “Handle With Care” that includes singing by all of the the new baby’s immediate family; parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Part of a series of records, Songs Not By Your Parents is dedicated to each of the Vasas children and is a continuation of the Songs Not By Me project.
Walk
A beat-tape from 2019, one of Vasas’s personal favorite records. Produced originally on an iPad, Walk was then reworked into its final form with various other recording devices.
Buttons are My Weakness
Released in 2021, Buttons are My Weakness is a full-length ambient work.
Live at Home Vol. 1
Released in 2017, Live at Home Vol. 1 is a full-length vocal record, recorded in one take that looks back on various songs from the Vasas catalog.