Michael Lenzi played drums and sang in the Chicago group Number One Cup. He later went on to front The Fire Show and then release a series of EPs and a full length under the name Resplendent. The Respondent EP consists of Mike Downey's reworks (edits, remixes) of 3 previously unreleased Resplendent songs.
Respondent EP
Resplendent/Downey
mixxtape006/hrtph001 : EP
Released: June 5, 2007
1. Spring
2. Home
3. Buildings & Food
In the beginning of 2005 I played my one and only show under the name of Resplendent. I had a band of 4 people consisting of Derek See (guitar), Pat O'Connell (guitar) and Joe Adamik (drums).
I was a bit discouraged after that and decided I needed to take a break. Perhaps that would revive me. It did temporarily and I set about recording an EP called Spring. I thought that I would release it under the name of Michael Lenzi, thus retiring the Resplendent moniker.
I came up with 3 songs which I recorded in a few weeks in my home studio Plastic Skull. I promptly shared them with a few people and forgot about them. My desire to make music vanished.
I did however share them on my website. That is how Mike Downey heard them. He contacted me and we talked about a collaboration but it fizzled on my end. I just couldnât get the music going again.
He plugged away on his own and sent me a remixed track by email. It was awesome. He went ahead and did the other two tracks from the EP. I loved them so we decided to release the collaboration. This is it.
All my tracks were recorded using my two samplers: the AKAI MPC 2000 XL and the Roland DJ-70. I recorded them on a 1/2â³ analog 8-track machine. Mike did his remixing, editing and additional recording in early 2007 at his home studio Funkis & Svettis in Stockholm using an iBook and Ableton Live.
If you would like to contact me about Resplendent, Fire Show or Number One Cup music, you can visit my website: www.michaellenzi.com or send me an email: michaellenzi@sbcglobal.net.