Please read all the information below and listen to the music. Then contact us via the following and let us know if you are interested in either the banjo spot, the mandolin spot - or both!
Email: pi@paranoidimage.com
Text: Christopher Malone (band leader): 720-522-9666
Facebook: Facebook Messenger - via this link.
Paranoid Image is a genre-bending acoustic fusion band looking for some talented musicians to join our band. Are you a banjo or mandolin virtuoso? Can you play both? We take an unconventional approach to our music, and that is certainly true with the banjo and mandolin parts we've established. And if yhou get what we're doing, your creativity, talent, and love of music can thrive with us!
We have a fun and fantastic time creating, recording and performing together. We are a serious band that rehearses once a week and is focused on putting out quality and creative music, in addition to touring.
Explore the website to learn more about us. Most importantly, please listen to our music so you can familiarize yourself with what we are doing. Not every song includes mandolin and banjo, but for those that do, you can hear how they play such a major role in their songs. Click / Tap Here to explore all of our singles and albums.
MUSIC REFERENCES / RESOURCES
You can listen to our published music by going to our PI's Music page and picking your favorite streaming source.
Other Songs / Covers: We have definitely grown and matured in our sound over the past years and our 2023 - 2024 singles and newest album ("Behind the Laughter") certainly showcase that. While most of our songs are originals, our full repertoire includes some covers including "Afro Blue" (in 3/4 - our own arrangement that morphs into "Footprints"), "Goodbye" (by Apparat - the theme song to the "Dark" series that features percussive and harmonic banjo), and "Heavy in Your Arms" by Florence & the Machine, and "They Don't Really Care About Us" by Michael Jackson.
New Songs: We are constantly writing and creating, and we'd love you to be part of that. Our 2024 album includes songs such as our "Colorado Burns" and "90 Days". And we're about to finish up our first single for 2025 - "Something Slightly Strange".
Goodbye This is one of our newest songs. The scratching, thumping, and harmonics throughout the song are all produced by the banjo!
Home The song Home is from our first album "Burning Paint" (2018) showcasing a more traditional use of mandolin and banjo.
There are several more videos you can check out as well as our music on all of the streaming sources.
If you are interested in mandolin, our first single "Keep Your Heart" (as well as the revised version "I'm Gonna Keep Your Heart") features some very cool mandolin, including during this interesting mandolin/piano break. In addition, all of the songs on our album "Burning Paint" and the three singles following that feature mandolin.
If you are interested in banjo, listen to a couple of our newest songs, "90 Days", and "Goodbye" as well as "(Trying to) Find Myself", "Faded Memories", "Home" and "Ukrainian Lullaby".
If you enjoy our music and would like to be a part of our fun band, please get in touch to get more info and set up an audition. Thanks for paying attention to all this. Looking forward to hearing from you! (Scroll back up for the contact info.)
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