The Red Microphone was founded as a quartet of Pietaro, Towers, Moshe and Iacovone in 2010 to record "Brecht Breakdown" for British label IAR's The Beat Sounds from Way Out. The band has performed widely, recording independent CD The Red Microphone Speaks in 2013, and for ESP-Disk, the critically acclaimed Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone (2017), followed by And I Became of the Dark (2021).