Mystic Places

Autumn Dance

A broad landscape of contemporary instrumentals, world, classical, jazz and fusion music.

Wind and Stars

Original song recordings from 1974-1975.  Songwriter Jon Lax (Vocals and Guitar) Mentions:  Yahudah Ben Asher (Congas and Percussion)

Coffee House

Remastered digitally from analog  recordings. Original songs written in the early 1980's in a variety of styles not previously released or placed. 

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Songs of 1980's

When Do You Know

Lay Down Your Head

I Want To Believe

Hazy Race

Gypsy Moon

Follow Your Heart

Floating In A Breeze

Story Line: You know someone is cheating having an affair.
About someone knowing they are being cheated on, feeling like a fool and telling them they should leave

If You Want To Run Around

Story Line: Hold me in your arms, tell me you will never go.
About loving someone and find comfort in each other's arms.

Hold Me In Your Arms

Story Line: A memory of a person that is frozen in memory.
Song in story weaving in and out of mystic visions and the importance of a person in someone's life.

Like a Mountain

Story Line: Finding love and letting go. 
This song is about falling in love, opening up to someone and telling  that person about themselves. Who they are, and that they are ready to take a chance.

MidNight Rodeo

Story Line: A song about a rodeo cowboy on the road, who has been in the circuit reflecting on life,. Getting tired and lonely but hates to wave his dreams good bye.

Smell of Dirt Taste of Fame

Story Line: Taking a vision quest in the heat of a sun, morphing into a spirit flying over the desert , then becoming a man again. The dream deeply ingrained screaming in the wind.

Snake Skinned Emerald Eyes

Story Line: Song about looking for and  chasing love until its found and accepted.

Take My Heart and Run

Story Line: Song about having a nonsensical dream  and trying to make sense of it.

While I Close My Eyes

1990's driving jazz rock fusion. Funky bass line, with piano interleaving the lead guitar.

All Day Long

Melodic contemporary instrumental with orchestra, keyboards and pan flutes interleave accented orchestra hits.

Ariel's Quest

Smooth jazz in style similar of Kenny G featuring clarinet melody lines, breaking into Pat Metheny style guitar lead.

Enchante'

Modern jazz swing featuring electric guitar touching avant garde styles layered with synths and keyboards. Melody riffs are spaced creating room for action or dialog.

Green Street

Driving defined lead guitar melody and bass line, interleaved with string and horns. Latin percussion offering syncopated rhythm back drop.

Incognito

Lively Contemporary Jazz featuring clean sounding electric guitar similar feel to George Benson backed up by keyboards bass and drums. 

Kansas City Swing

Light contemporary melodic jazz featuring clarinet.  African percussion on top of basic light drum ride. Bell like keyboards with Jacoish type bass for accompaniment. Piece ends with light percussion solo.

Lighter Than Air

Driving bass with electronic drums starts the music. Keyboard synths form a melodic dance. Subtle guitar rhythm jumps into  electric  "Jeff Beck" lead. Mixing different jazz rock fusion styles into a cohesive experience.

Magic Man

Featuring African rhythm and percussion. An orchestrated theme emerges creating a cinematic back drop layered with counter melodies.

Nambe

Smooth jazz featuring clarinets, bass guitar. Strong melody with layered bass and keyboard lines with background vocal choir.

Only One Heart

High energy fast paced jazz rock fusion. "Jeff Beck" electric lead and funky bass lines.

Uppity Buppity

Slow to medium jazz "Bob James" sounding. Featuring acoustic and electric pianos with a melodic bass.

Water Canyon

Exciting paced New Age music featuring synthesizer, pan pipes  and and acoustic flutes accompanied by World Music percussion and bass. Music to launch one's mind in an astral traveling adventure.

Wind Dance

Jazz fusion 5/4 swing, classic melody lines lead by a funk bass line 1990's. Tempo changes into straight four swing, fast jazz piano riffs. leading over B3 organ, then returning to original melody line for ending.

Back Street

This is a three part New Age piece that includes oboe, pan flutes, electric bass and Latin percussion instruments. The first part features a lively fun oboe melody; the second part is a jazz bass solo leading to an more energetic theme that brings all the instruments together in a musical Play Ground of Latin New Age and Jazz influences.

The Playground

Stately introduction of cathedral chimes resonates with large brass as a heart rhythm in background leads the listener to Ixtlan. Once arrived, the Pan Pipes bring forth the melodic doctrine setting the voyage on another course. The listener can only follow to the homeland of his heart , achieving victory over the dark forces that cannot be avoided upon this road one walks.  

Ixtlan

New Age / Fusion contemporary instrumental featuring keyboard synths. Rhythmic ethereal cosmic reality touching the earth with a perhaps a solemn message to mankind

El Nino

Hot electrifying guitar jazz fusion piece with acoustic jazz piano, funky bass and full Latin jazz/rock drums. Reminiscent of Bill Cobham /Weather Report with more modern riffs.

Direct Drive

Imagine a bit of Bob James with a bit of Tower of Power brass section and a funky back beat. Its the Bay Area sound with some NYC.

Bayside Walk

"Fierce" contemporary jazz/fusion piece. Features a strong sax melody doubled up with electric guitar, Art Blakey type drums with McCoy Tyner type piano improvisational riff running through the sax and guitar lines.  This tune is full of little variations while the drums lay down the groove.  The piano solos add a nice kick to parts of the tune making a great nu-jazz fusion piece.

Phoenix

Opens with piano and saxophones. Acoustic and electric guitars double  up weaving counter structures on bridge. Slow to medium acoustic jazz rhythm. A strong but introspective melody line, taking few turns to enjoy the different views within this music landscape.

Last Chance

Unique Classic Jazz featuring piano, bass and drums trio. Flavors of Cecil Taylor, Theolonius Monk and McCoy Tyner.

Keystone Corner

The song starts off with a very calming piano, and and oboe playing an improvisational melody. Strings are added to highlight melody and provides complex counter harmony and melody with piano. A fair amount of space in music providing for introspective mood.  The harmonies are sophisticated, and the melodies unpredictable.

Sparkles In the Sand

New Age/World fusion acoustic music featuring acoustic guitars and violin, layered with saxophone and latin percussion, provides a warm folk nu-jazz sound with a latin feel.  

Dreaming With You

Electric Jazz/Fusion musical piece with a rock solid back beat adding to electricity generating guitar playing fifths on a soulful melody accompanied by B3 organ and Matrix 6 synths.  Strong melody and several key changes constantly build crescendo to a sparkling finish.

February 11

A lively jazz bluesy fusion theme featuring Fender Rhodes keyboard,  brass and horn section, muted trumpet with soft jazz / blues guitar accompaniment driven by a rock steady rhythm and electric bass. Blend of Tom Scott, Tower of Power.

Night Lights

Jazz Funk, Fusion music featuring piano, slap base, synthesizers , brass and baritone sax horn section. The music provides for driving action theme layered with an ethereal sound-scape in background for a more complex mood.

Muse Who

Latin Jazz Fusion music with a kick, featuring blazing electric guitar, piano, horns, and latin percussion. Reminisent of Santana part of the popular Bay Area sound in during 1980's and 90's

Hot Salsa

A unique and special arrangement featuring wood winds acoustic guitar and Latin percussion. In the spirit of the northern woods, the instruments interplay melodies within a soulful framework and Latin based rhythm. Conjuring memories like fly fishing an an remote stream, looking up at the the stars or just remembering Good Ole Days!

Good Ole Day

Orchestrated classical music featuring viola, cello and oboe. Several themes intertwined. Starts out with an image of peace and tranquility.  About 1:30 in change to suspense,  tension, something happening,  2:20 more movement of characters with less tension with resolution of conflict at the end.  

Imagine sitting by a quiet river, drifting off to the sound of the water and wind. Highly recommended listening for travelers, road warriors and other seekers of adventure to accompany unique places of heart, soul, and beyond.

Quiet River

Piano solo. Starts in a  avant-garde mode transitions to flowing contemporary and crossing over into classical and jazz genres.

Piano In Three (3)

Innovative music for film, video, and multimedia. Specializing in unique contemporary jazz,folk, classical, world & experimental music.   Member of ASCAP

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