Booka Michel, Loadhouse label owner and manager, has bet on this elegant restrained piano player who follows the old boogie-woogie tradition but, at the same time, he also gives to his playing the most actual cool creativity of nowadays keyboard musicians, which makes him quite different from other artists belonging to the same generation Handstand gathers fourteen songs, thirteen Mike own compositions plus Elmore James’ Can’t Stop Lovin’’ Kindred plays piano, only backed by bass, drums and Dexter Walker as special guest The songs and styles included on the cd are basically boogie-woogie, stomps, rhumba-blues and juke-joint blues, all deliciously performed with the particular vision of this artist who tastefully combines the great old mature flavour with the most contemporary musical style