In 1988, at the beginning of the Soviet Union's era of Glasnost, McDonald co-produced the first "official" Soviet rock band, Autograf. "That was the year when the KGB was recording my phone conversations while I was hosting the only Soviet rockers to be allowed to leave the country.", McDonald quips. Mike later made history as the first American audio engineer to record in Moscow at the Songwriters' Summit. This landmark collaboration between U.S. and Soviet songwriters (boasting American chart busters Michael Bolton, Cyndi Lauper and Brenda Russell) resulted in the album, "Music Speaks Louder than Words" (Epic). For this groundbreaking album, McDonald produced a cut for latin pop superstar, Emmanuel.
McDonald's talent for recording music of various cultures has allowed him to travel the globe, tracking and mixing for artists like Japanese superstar, Seiko Matsuda (Sony), Czechoslovakia's top singer Vasho Padejl (Opus), Finnish pop princess Merve (EMI), Argentine rocker Miguel Mateos (BMG) and Australian crooner Peter Allen (RCA). Under his banner MiMac Productions (pronounced "My-Mak"), McDonald produced the self-titled album from the funk / metal band Total Eclipse (Tabu / A&M Records). A band which McDonald describes as, "James Brown meets Metallica." An R&B artist Mike discovered and produced, Worthy Davis, recently won the grande Prix (top artist, top song and best performance) at the Golden Stag International Song Festival in Romania.
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