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Juana Molina - "Eras" (from the album Wed 21)

An unreleased track from the Rites Of Passage studio recording and live performance project 1996. 

Written by Mikail Graham & Rich Stanmyre. 
Mixed by Brian Foraker.

Performed by Rites Of Passage: Roger Hodgson guitar, Andrew Hodgson drums, Mikail Graham guitar & vocals. Rich Stanmyre electric bass, John Helliwell tenor sax, Jeff Daniel keyboards.

A note those who are interested…
Twenty years ago in the late spring and summer of 1996 I was in a band called "Rites Of Passage" with Roger Hodgson, his son & my buddy Andrew Hodgson, another pal Rich Stanmyre, saxophonist extraordinaire John Helliwell, and keyboardist composer Jeff Daniel. Together we played the entire summer working from 10a to 10-10p 5-7 days a week having a lot of fun and getting to know one another as much as one can do in a band situation.

We made a lot of music together, we laughed, we argued, and in the end the band and its music became the name of a Roger Hodgson solo album, his third in fact. There's some good tracks on that record and a few that never made the cut.

This is one of them called "Not Enough Time" featuring Roger on electric guitar, Andrew on drums, Rich on electric bass, John on tenor sax & solo, Jeff on keys and me on guitar and vocals.

It was composed during our non-stop jams with both myself and Rich taking credit for the music and me for the words.

It was originally mixed for the album by my old friend and Nashville mastering buddy Brian Foraker (look around & you'll find his name on lots of great records). Alas it didn't make the cut for the album and has been languishing in my archives all these years along with several other unreleased work tracks. 

Seeing as how it's currently the 20th anniversary of that project it seemed fitting to finally release it to the world, I mean why not?

There's a couple of others I will be posting as well soon, but for now I'll start with his one.

Hope you enjoy,

mikail

unreleased live track - not used on the final ROP album

Not Enough Time

An experimental piece using only a brief impromptu street recording of Chinese Buddhist chanting I overheard in San Francisco this weekend.

Not Enough Time

Mikail Graham

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