Look What I Made - DIY indie music podcast with Kevin Pike

Experience the unique world of Kevin Pike Music. Experiments in DIY recording. Jazz, Funk, Rock, Classical, Third Stream and more. Composer Kevin Pike picks one song per episode and explains how it came about and what instrumentation he used in the arrangement.

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Episodes

Episode 113 - Backyard Squirrels

Contemporary Classical composition by Kevin Pike for saxophone quartet and 5-string banjo

Mar 08, 2025•8 min

Episode 112 - Love The Way

Cavaco banjo and tenor sax in a Bossa Nova style duet.

Apr 24, 2024•13 min

Episode 111 - Chippy

Chip-style groove combining 5-string American banjo, 4-string Brazilian cavaco banjo, alto sax, bass guitar and drums. Crazy funky tight groove.

Mar 07, 2024•9 min

Episode 110 - C'mon and Get It Now

Funky instrumental track with the unlikely pairing of baritone saxophone and banjo

Oct 06, 2023•9 min

Episode 109 - non kon siefe dui/Astriela

This song combines child vocals, playing a guitar using a credit card as a pick, alto and baritone saxes, mandolin and glockenspiel.

Mar 23, 2023•5 min

Episode 108 - Emergence from the Basement

This song captures the emotion of isolation and then reemergence experienced during the pandemic. It's a combination of free jazz and through-composed music.

Dec 28, 2022•13 min

Episode 107 - Ain't Over Till It's Over

progressive jazz featuring alto sax, bari sax, lap steel guitar, electric bass and percussion

Nov 11, 2022•14 min

Episode 106 - Ctrl Shift Alt

uptempo frenetic funk featuring alto sax, electric bass, drums and funk banjo

Apr 15, 2022•10 min

Episode 105 - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

The Cannonball Adderly classic played as a country funk banjo jam

May 28, 2021•8 min

Episode 104 - For Thee We Do Abide

sax and banjo in a gospel/roots music treatment of a hymn

Apr 11, 2021•7 min

Episode 103 - Whatever It Takes

A solo banjo instrumental of a song by the band Imagine Dragons

Jan 07, 2021•9 min

Episode 102 - Segue

Groovy little instrumental featuring kalimba, ocarina, flute, wow bell, wah-wah pedals and saxophones.

Nov 07, 2020•9 min

Episode 101 - Can't Stand Your Funk

Funky solo banjo arrangement of a tune by John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Oct 16, 2020•8 min

Episode 100 - O Trem Azul

Kevin Pike and Reese Pike play a jazz duet from Clube da Esquina

Aug 30, 2020•11 min

Episode 99 - The Rockinest Band

the ROCKINEST BAND that you never heard

Jun 09, 2020•7 min

Episode 98 - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Solo banjo arrangement of the Rolling Stones classic You Can't Always Get What You Want

Feb 25, 2020•7 min

Episode 97 - Beethoven Pathetique

Classical Jazz: my jazz ballad arrangement of Beethoven's Adagio Cantabile from the Pathetique Piano Sonata

Jan 05, 2020•7 min

Episode 96 - Something for Cat

arrangement of a Henry Mancini composition featuring alto sax

Jun 28, 2019•8 min

Episode 95 - Sweet Emotion

Had fun making an arrangement of Sweet Emotion for banjo

May 23, 2019•10 min

Episode 94 - Chained to the Rhythm

I play sax and banjo on this arrangement of the Katy Perry pop song

Oct 23, 2018•9 min

Episode 93 - Keep the Pin Steady

nineties-era groove track updated in 2018 with distorted saxophone and electronic toy sound effects

Sep 29, 2018•10 min

Episode 92 - nayete

world music ballad featuring recorder, sax, piano, guitar and percussion

Jun 25, 2018•10 min

Episode 91 - In The Summer Times

trumpet + alto sax + bari sax + wah wah guitar = funky jazz jam

Jan 05, 2018•14 min

Episode 90 - 68940

jazz/funk featuring alto sax, electric guitar and banjo

Nov 30, 2017•13 min

Episode 89 - DH Funk

funky mandolin, funky sax

Jul 28, 2017•5 min

Episode 88 - Crowdsource Waltz

A waltz made out of crowd noise and middle school band pre-concert warmups

Jun 12, 2017•5 min

Episode 87 - The Fifth Parallel

Kevin Pike on alto saxes, tenor saxes, bari saxes and drums

May 17, 2017•11 min

Episode 86 - Mr. Badass

A jazz/funk track featuring tenor sax, electric bass, alto sax, flute and bari sax

Apr 22, 2017•14 min

Episode 85 - The Ol' Ballgame

I combine the sounds from my old 1980 Sears Electronic Baseball Game with alto sax and dugout noise from a Little League Baseball game.

Apr 01, 2017•7 min

Episode 84 - Bag o' Tricks

3 versions of my favorite modern jazz/funk original composition, which I wrote in 1997

Feb 27, 2017•22 min

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