Name: Max at 91 by Mark Altekruse
Duration: 4 min 22 s
Description: Written for my father, Max, who turned 91 this year.

Sumptuous fingerstyle playing, Mark. It reminds me a little of Pat Metheny's A Map of the World, which is one of my favourite albums of his.

How beautifully you present all the events of a long life. Respect.

Really taken with this playing and the melodic idea, so pure like water from a spring. thank you for sharing

So much feeling and authentic feeling at that - exactly what I needed to hear this morning. Thanks Mark :)

Words and music by Lennon and McCartney. Recorded by Springer and Eversole at the Back Seat Saloon, November 3, 1982.

Blackbird

Jc & the Disciples first release from  "Woolly Mammoth & Other Assorted Sweets" 
©2023 Produced by JC Whitelaw & Ryan Hyland.
Mixed at Plymouth Rock Recordings. Recorded at Willis Sound & Plymouth Rock Recordings.
Cover Art by Klawe Rezeczy

Jc - Vocals & Guitars
James Megearian - Bass
Johnny Evans - Saxophone
Kristin Von Bearnthal - Vocals
Jimmy Sparks - Drums
David Reinstein - Organ

Lyrics:
I never dreamed the first time
would leave me hurting for more
I told myself the last time as I was walking out your door
I shake myself to reason but now I'm rendered unwound
I'm blinded by obsessions, thought I'd find you somehow

I can't call you my lover
I can't call you my friend
I can't call you my saving grace
Ya know, I think it's reached the end

You dosed me with your poisons
Infected you with my dreams
lost you in the darkness
and got messed up in all your crazy schemes
Your thinking I deceived you knowing all of the while
that nothing would change nor be rearranged now that the antidotes no longer your smile

I can't call you my lover
I can't call you my friend
I can't call you my saving grace
Ya know, I think it's reached the end

Never dreamed the first time
would leave me hurting for more
I told myself the last time, as I went walking, walking
as I went walking,
I'm walking, walking
as I went walking, walking,
I'm walking, walking,...

I can't call you my lover
I can't call you my friend
I can't call you my saving grace
I think it's reached the end

Deception - First release from Jc & the Disciples - "Woolly Mammoth & Other Assorted Sweets"

Lucky - The Second Release from the Jc & the Disciples Album- Woolly Mammoth and Other Assorted Sweets. ©2023
Produced by:
Jc Whitelaw & Ryan Hyland
Recorded at Plymouth Rock Recording
Cover Art by Klawe Rzeczy

Jc - Vocals & Guitars
James Megearian - Bass
David Reinstein - Keyboards
Geoff Kindie - Drums

Lyrics:
She caught the train at 1:09
No regrets with what she left behind
The kid from Gainesville move her soul
Now the kids can’t play rock n roll

Still I know
There must be something coming 
Still I know
There must be something more for me

I’ve been lucky I know
Of this one thing I’m sure
We’ve been lucky I know
until it’s gone

All this noise only brings you down
Only fools keep me hanging round
We satirize all that we see
Till it means nothing to me

But still I know
There must be something coming 
Still I know
There must be something more for me

I’ve been lucky I know
Of this one thing I’m sure
(Caught you down on Bourbon Street and)
We’ve been lucky I know
until it’s gone

Close the gates
Pack up the clowns
Roll it up and pull the curtain down
Cut the lamp and fade to black
No way of ever turning back

But still I know
There must be something coming 
Still I know
There must be something more for me and

I’ve been lucky I know
Of this one thing I’m sure, so sure
We’ve been lucky I know
Tried to give you everything

Lucky - The Second Release from the Album "Woolly Mammoth and Other Assorted Sweets"

As I mature and fine-tune my musical journey, I seem to gravitate more and more towards the contemporary classical genre. Why is that, and do you feel the same? I think, for me, it’s all about the connection. I want to feel emotion expressed from the composer’s soul through instruments attached to human hands. They feel like an extension of articulations flowing into sound. I also think that electronic music has that capability as well [I’ve recently acquired the Osmose from Expressive E, and let me tell you – it’s entirely something else]. And then, there is, of course, the blend of both where certain frequencies [especially the low end] can’t be generated entirely by organic means. Or when dense atmospheres and textures cloud the landscape with a gorgeous dew. This is how I feel about the latest album from the Melbourne-based composer Callum Mintzis, who first appeared on these pages a few years ago when I premiered his collaboration with Pat Jaffe in the video for V. Murmur. Mintzis is also collaborating with Tilman Robinson, who co-produced this latest album [and yes, I hear a bit of his conjuring touch]. The album is titled "And the Wind was my Dear Friend, Once Again", and across its seven pieces, Mintzis explores the mysteries of life through many philosophical questions posed alongside the release, but it is the music itself that will make you reach deep inside your own existence for the answers you will find.

And the Wind was my Dear Friend, Once Again

TRACK PREMIERE : Callum Mintzis - Once Again

Here's one that began in 1980 with drums and synthesisers. Years later, after adding guitar and bass - I think it's almost ready. What are your thoughts?


Musicians:
Elliott Randall, guitar, synths
Neil Harland, bass, synth
Allan Schwartzberg, drums

Mixed by Wes Maebe

DESERT PRETZEL

Written for my father, Max, who turned 91 this year.

Max at 91

I just had to make a stand and put an end to these call...

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Wishing our friends, families and colleagues a great 2018!

Whistling Away The Dark

Mixed by DJ Lee Groves www.leegroves.com

TRACKLISTING
“Rat Race (Dub)” - Specials
“Immigrant Dub” - Basement 5
“Chillin”- AK47’s
“Article 2 Dub” - Suicide Bid
“Pleasures Of The Dance” - Ruts DC vs Mad Professor
“Six Of One” - Pigbag
“Ghosts of Ladbroke Grove (Portobello Dub)” - Killing Joke
“Spend, Spend, Spend (Dub Version)” - The Slits
“Justice Tonight/Kick it Over” - The Clash
“Pork Dub” - P.A.I.N

GRØVVES _MIX ZERO3 PUNK DUB

Starts off as a nod to the late great Leslie West... then "zigs" when you expected a "zag"
Just rockin' out

70's Thang

This is a demo recorded with my great friend and musical genius Jake Allen.   I wrote the lyrics back in May of 2020, and kind of put them on the back shelf.   Then Jake had a new idea to put some songs together with lyrics and he created this beautiful demo.   Debating on doing a fund raiser or not, to do a complete version of this song with drums, bass, guitar and maybe more keyboards.

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Max at 91

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