{"id":50,"date":"2019-12-17T19:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/blawg\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2024-03-12T18:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T18:58:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT Mark Christensen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"599\" data-id=\"17\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/33136_n-Copy2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/33136_n-Copy2-1.jpg 478w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/33136_n-Copy2-1-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"1238\" data-id=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/F57D425F-0A2F-4B92-9639-30FCD059A902.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/F57D425F-0A2F-4B92-9639-30FCD059A902.jpeg 1100w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/F57D425F-0A2F-4B92-9639-30FCD059A902-267x300.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/F57D425F-0A2F-4B92-9639-30FCD059A902-910x1024.jpeg 910w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/F57D425F-0A2F-4B92-9639-30FCD059A902-768x864.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1643\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/mcp-Cocoon2021-039-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1643\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Mark Christensen is a genre-fluid multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer. His primary instruments are guitar, bass and Chapman Stick<sup>TM<\/sup> (a multi-stringed instrument with the pitch range of a bass and guitar combined, that is played by tapping the strings).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>He is currently recording and performing as a solo artist,  collaborating in a duo with Dennis Tirch and as a member of , Ghost Ghost, the Arty LaVigne Band and The Rough Suspects.  Past projects include co-founding Los Angeles alt-celt band Fools and Fodder, Vermont&#8217;s John Tower Group and Radio Underground, and post-prog jam band Stone Document, as well as collaborations with varied artists from Cyrus Chestnut to Robert Fripp &amp; The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C0473FEF-3725-445B-BD58-1D5109B58772-1-1024x765.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C0473FEF-3725-445B-BD58-1D5109B58772-1-1024x765.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C0473FEF-3725-445B-BD58-1D5109B58772-1-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C0473FEF-3725-445B-BD58-1D5109B58772-1-768x574.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/C0473FEF-3725-445B-BD58-1D5109B58772-1.jpeg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Christensen is a genre-fluid multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer. His primary instruments are guitar, bass and Chapman StickTM (a multi-stringed instrument with the pitch range of a bass and guitar combined, that is played by tapping the strings). He is currently recording and performing as a solo artist, collaborating in a duo with Dennis Tirch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ABOUT Mark Christensen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23458,"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/23458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedapplerecords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}