Ken Chastain

Kenneth Lee Chastain (born October 15, 1964, Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician, engineer, and producer currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is featured on percussion on Ziggy Marley's Love Is My Religion album and many other well-known artists' works. Chastain also composes, produces, engineers, and mixes for TV and film projects, most notably the movie Sweet Land.

History 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. Career Pixel Farm 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: Sweet Land (Winner, Best First Feature Spirit Award for Independent Film) Older Than America (Premiered at SXSW and the Walker Art Center “Women of Vision” Funkytown Pathfinder Urban Explorers Tromeo and Juliet Detective Fiction Hotel Hidajet

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: NBA theme songs for the Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers Weisman Art Museum installation “Voyager”

Discography 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