BIO:
Magic portal music; lofi spiritual artpop. Mark McGlue from Western Australia, living in Howth, Ireland; making things. Magnetic Zeros meets Basement Tapes meets 1970 Grateful Dead meets Enja meets Daniel Johnston meets Blink-182 Unplugged meets Bach on acid meets myself in the future telegraphing back in time via song to raise my Consciousness and paint Beauty on air for God in us.

THE ALBUM:
Christmas Consciousness out Dec 1st is original Christmas Spirituals in the key of Jesus the Yogi meets Bach on acid by 33 y/o artist maverick Mark McGlue. Choral symphony: check. Blues: check. Spiritual allegory: check. Dedicated to Yogananda & Brian Wilson.

TRACK LISTING:
Christmas Consciousness: auld time twinkly guitars, urging Enlightenment, Self-Realization and eternal optimism.
Merry Christmas To My Self: puns, introspective piano pop, themes of isolation and transcending suffering.
Presence Under The Tree: the feeling of joyful togetherness on Christmas Day, featuring a dream sequence in which Christ initiates me into divine meditation.
Twelfth Day: Shakespeare, traditional with new lyrics on love for humanity etc.
Saint Nicholas Was A Real Man: biography of Saint Nicholas, real Santa.
Alien Choirs Over Bethlehem: aliens probably sang over baby Jesus’s birth.
Aum, Sweet Aum: choral aum chanting.
God’s Own Sandals Moving On: a rolling poem on metaphysics/Creation 
Spoke To Jesus At A Bus Stop: true story, entirely improvised on the spot.
The Second Coming Of ‘You’: “Behold the Kingdom of God is within you.” The second coming of Christ is when you also reach Enlightenment like Jesus did; becoming like him by emulation.
Rivers To The Sea: sung from Jesus’ point-of-view towards Christians and humans and souls alike about how it is.
Auld Lang Syne: famous ancient tune from Atlantis, new verses about Beauty, friendship, timelessness and nostalgia, farewell of good luck, new year wisdom, recapitulation on the virtue of optimism.

CREDITS
All made by Mark McGlue except for backing vocals on ‘Aum, Sweet Aum’ by Rose Eva Lippke. Mastermind support from Jamie McGlue. Concept inspired by Brian Wilson, Dylan and Yogananda.

TRIVIA:
- some songs are improvised
- no click track, no quantising, no tuning vocals, no plug-ins til mastering, almost no edits and 99% single takes layered together
- message of original Christianity the way Jesus himself promoted
- from concept to release in 3 months, most of it written in one week, started with song names then downloaded the song from God

You'll find me on Spotify, other less famous  streaming services etc. 

Instagram: 
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQekP8QjuLqGX0EOPz5Q5Wg

Bon voyage, bon appetit and God luck!

Esoterically yours,
Mark McGlue

The Second Coming Of 'You'

Spoke To Jesus At A Bus Stop

God's Own Sandals Moving On

Aum, Sweet Aum

Alien Choirs Over Bethlehem

Saint Nicholas Was A Real Man

Twelfth Day

Presence Under The Tree

Merry Christmas To My Self

Christmas Consciousness

All songs by Mark McGlue except 'In Your Dreams' written by Sebastian D'Alonzo & Mark McGlue. Cosmic photograph by Jade Laity.

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