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Kenneth Lee Chastain (born October 15, 1964, Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician, engineer, and producer currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] He is featured on percussion on Ziggy Marley's Love Is My Religion album and many other well-known artists' works. [2] Chastain also composes, produces, engineers, and mixes for TV and film projects, most notably the movie Sweet Land .
Chastain was born in New Hampshire, and lived in France and Morocco with his Peace Corps parents before moving to Minnesota. He played Suzuki cello and was a soloist in the Metropolitan Boys Choir in the Twin Cities. He went on to the University of Minnesota and the Berklee College of Music in Boston to study music, audio engineering and film scoring.
He plays bass, guitar, keyboards, trumpet, harmonica, Chapman Stick, theremin, and percussion. [3]
As head of audio post-production at Pixel Farm Minneapolis, and chief engineer and composer for Pixel Farm Music, Ken Chastain scores music, sound designs, and mixes award-winning television commercials and films. Recent award-winning commercials include Garmin's Super Bowl XLII offering “Napoleon” and United Airlines' "Dragon".
Commercials for: Porsche / Goodyear / Purina / Coca-Cola / Garmin / Best Buy / Target / BMW / United Airlines
Film credits:
In the music world Chastain can be heard playing on records from Switchfoot and Mike Doughty to Grammy Award-winning Ziggy Marley.
Music credits: Ziggy Marley / Dan Wilson / Mandy Moore / Mike Doughty / Clay Aiken / Andrew W.K. / Pink / Backstreet Boys / Semisonic / Glen Phillips / Switchfoot
Appearances: The Tonight Show NBC / The Larry Sanders Show HBO / South by Southwest / Sundance Film Festival
Miscellaneous:
| Artist | Title | Record Company | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ziggy Marley | Love Is My Religion | TuffGong Worldwide | EM |
| Stuart D’Rozario | Songs About Now | SAN | EPM |
| Har Mar Superstar | The Handler | Record collection | EM |
| Mike Doughty | Haughty Melodic | ATO | EM |
| Switchfoot | Nothing Is Sound | Sparrow Records | EM |
| Evan and Jaron | Evan and Jaron | Columbia | EM |
| TerraMara | FourBlocksToHennepin | Redhead | EPM |
| Pink | Try This | LaFace | EM |
| Mandy Moore | Coverage | EPIC | EM |
| Backstreet Boys | Never Gone | Jive Records | EM |
| Andrew W.K. | I Get Wet | Island Records | E |
| Semisonic | All About Chemistry | MCA | M |
| The Rembrandts | LP | Atlantic | E |
| The Honeydogs | Here’s Luck | Palm Pictures | M |
| Nick Lachey | Dear Santa | LGM | EM |
| Iffy | Biota Bondo | FoodChain Records | M |
| Rhythm Jones | Al America | GSM | EPM |
| TerraMara | Dragonfly | Redhead | EPM |
| The Januaries | The Januaries | Foodchain | M |
| Johnny Clueless | What's Your Flavour | Boxof Records | EPM |
| FLIPP | Blow It Out Your Ass | Rock Steady | EPM |
| Greazy Meal | Gravy | TRG records | EPM |
| Greazy Meal | Visualize World Greaze | TRG records | EPM |
| Greazy Meal | Digitalize World Greaze | TRG records | EPM |
| Asche & Spencer | Unsupervised Recreation | A&S | EM |
| Tangletown | Freakshow | Zinc records | M |
| Willie Wisely | She | October records | EPM |
| Willie Wisely | Turbosherbert | October records | EM |
| Honeywagon | Finger Twister | Mache House | EPM |
| Mango Jam | Flux | Shanachie records | EPM |
| Tina and the B-sides | Live 1st Ave | T CD | M |
| Marlee MaCleod | Vertigo | TRG records | M |
| Various Mpls artists | Mpls Does Denver | October records | EPM |
| Beat the Clock | Self-titled | Booty rock records | EPM |
| Beat the Clock | Funk Bus | Booty rock / Gark Records | EPM |
| Eclectic Stew | Temple of Doom (single) | Phillips compact disc | EPM |
| Funky Ass Loops | New Power Generation | East West CD ROM | M |
| Smoov Grooves | New Power Generation | East West CD ROM | M |
| Trip Shakespeare | Volt EP | Clean | E |
| BUG! | BUG! | October records | E |
| Johnny Clueless | Too Late Too Loud | Oarfin records | M |
| Native Sons | Lost in Time | October records | EM |
| Bone Club | Beautiful | Rocket sound record co. | E |
| Raye | No Limits to Love | Metro records | EM |
| Legion of Boom | Self-titled | Metro records | EPM |
| The Andersons | A Minnesota Christmas | Gold-n-boy records | EM |
| 40 Thieves | Self-titled | Metro records | E |
| G. B. Leighton | One Time One Life | Metro records | M |
| Bill Bruce | Young Harold Visits | Skeleton crew records | EM |
| Casablanca Orch | CBO | Metro records | E |
| The Other Side | A Month of Sundays | Metro records | EPM |
| Garth | Homeward Bound | Acoustic Innovations | E |
| 903 | Takin Care of Business | 903 Productions inc. | EPM |
| Marc Allen | Self-titled | Mars records | EM |
| One Horse | Power | Dream house records | E |
| Scott Aveles | Aveles | Metro records | EM |
| Jack Richter | The Richter Scale | Metro records | EM |
| The Nielson White Band | Self-titled | Metro records | E |
| Natalie Allen | Smokin | Metro / Natco records | EM |
| Trouble Shooter | Borderline | Metro records | EM |
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