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CD, AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE Released on AMAZON and CDbaby on 4/15/2008 YOU CAN BUY the physical CD on those sites. SEARCH UNDER> AugustOceanOverture OR Michael Guy
All the tracks from the this version are IN THIS LULU STOREFRONT as SINGLE MP3s, many have PREVIEWS.
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NEW RELEASE! Coming Soon SEPTEMBER 2008> IN MEMORY ONLY, the 2nd JAZZ/New Age CD of piano, digital keyboards and Jazz Quartet/Trio originals
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Print: $29.95 Download: $8.75 The lyrics of songs by jazz pianist/songwriter Michael Guy to be followed up by a CD in 2009. THIS BOOK IS IN ALL COLOR, TEXT & PHOTOS. There are a few poems but most are finely crafted lyrics . These arrangements are in large type including photos on personal and nature themes. Some of Guy's "relationship lyrics" have a country song feel and beat structure; photos show his striking rich collage work in his CD covers published by JzCDz.com. Michael Guy (a.k.a. Michael L'ecluse) writes of his own personal history as well as songs in American History set as story-songs.
Could be your next coffee-table songbook (if you only knew his melodies!) You will when you buy his CDs published under JzCDz.com
He is the sole composer and pianist on the New Age, Jazz CD titled: AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE now available on iTunes and Amazon.
Download his music mp3 singles at those locations.
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Download: $0.70 Track one of CD:August Ocean Overture. The opening piece is #1-5 of an Ocean Suite. This track segues into Track 2, the Seabreeze theme.
It came out of a fabulous live recording session on the night of July 20, 2007 but was all done in one take.
For weeks I'd been playing variations on this theme (written July 2006) and another dramatic darker Nature mood was forming on Low Strings; I got mad that so many great takes of the Seabreeze melody had vanished into thin air, and it was time to get operational.
The darker intro. came up and I went with it, feeling the mystery of a vast Ocean at night. It rolled over into a Romatic, theme in A minor played in high octaves then crossing hands to do chords. Finally I arrived back on my sweet Seabreeze melody in G.
For the rest of the suite, you'll have to check out the CD (This suite gets hotter in tempo on track 3)
High bitrate mp3, Time = 5:09
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Download: FREE A single from CD is from Quartet and Trio compositions recorded between 1995 and 2000. His CD, August Ocean Overture is 2 Cds in one. The second half of the CD is called: "JAZZ dance IMAGE" and includes this backing quartet piece of sequenced drums, bass, and guitar accompaniment along with a live SAX solo played by his Midi keyboard
Like his favorite Black American composer, DUKE ELLINGTON, he has put some time in orchestration, not to mention paid a few dues on the piano - nicely mid-voiced for that Ellingtonia "Big Band" feel.
Time = 3:55
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Perpetuem MobilePerpetuem Mobile (multimedia download)
Download: $0.59 A very cool fusion hit! Says, Christopher Hulse, editor at JzCDz.com and one who's read Michael Guy's musical novel, "The Last Renaissance Man". This is the theme to that novel and appears on his website: www.theLastRenaissanceMan.net to launch later in December 2007. Due to time limits (74' most CDs, a ridiculous 70' here at Lulu) this was cut from his CD, "August Ocean Overture". It well deserves a push as a single. An infectious rhythm of bass and piano chords overlayed with a "Blues scale" theme done with guitar samples. Recorded in his then state of the art, Roland Studio "M" in 1996 by Michael Guy, it had fine samples for that time and even now. Heavy distorted Electric guitar takes the theme at the end of this 3' tune and you would be hard pressed to know it was off a Midi keyboard!
Imagine a roomful of dancing Baroque composers doing a boogied-down version of an Allemande--then see his novel, "The Last Renaissance Man."
256Kbps mp3, Time = 2:44
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Download: $0.59 The original piano solo, from the opening 2005 session for Michael Guy's CD: "August Ocean Overture" released Dec. 2007. This was the earlier takes on his Digital Grand, which unlike his "SeaBreeze in G" recorded July 2007, was less processed, a little dry. Yet he was in fine, Classical form. Has an improvised, almost "Moonlight Sonata" sound put into modern, jazz idiom. The left hand is serene--basic arpeggio figures over a Majestic, Oceanic melody. It builds intensity to end a piano solo by a master improvisor. Time = 2:50
HEAR MORE AT: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
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BasStringBluesBasStringBlues (multimedia download)
Download: $0.39 Track number 6 from Michael Guy's CD, August Ocean Overture The first piece recorded in one afternoon take of July 2005. Jazz blues, with a mid-voiced clav part boldly nuanced against very syncopated, atmospheric strings - bold, solid bass played in his left hand. The strings wrapping around the traditional blues line give it a new age contemporary ambiance. High bitrate mp3.
About 4.5mb Time = 2:29
HEAR MORE AT: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
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Download: $0.60 A gorgeous, zephyr of a piano solo with the ambiance of a summer afternoon on a breezy, tropical beach from jazz pianist and composer Michael Guy. From his CD August Ocean Overture - Excerpts from an extended opening piano, strings and choir suite: "Ocean Prelude" His Editor, Chris Hulse, marveled at the PRISTINE sound of this Piano Solo!
JzCDz.com will be releasing downloads of the tracks from this atmospheric, jazz Keyboard album.
Michael Guy has played solo piano for over 30 years, at least 20+ in a jazz style. Download and enjoy this high bitrate mp3 of his Serenely composed, Digital sampled Bosendorfer-Grand Piano work. Time = 3:13
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Print: $10.95 Download: $5.95 Three impressionistic piano compositions by American composer Michael A. Guy, of recital caliber, moderate difficulty. The largest piece No.1 titled: Aubade: The Belltower of Deland contains a mix of classical, jazz and rock techniques evoking images of a quiet Sunday in a small Southern town. No.2 & 3 are a November Nocturne mostly for Right Hand patterns. The last piece is titled, "September Song" a country/folk tune similar to George Winston's early pieces, improvisation encouraged. Large note font using Finale Allegro notation. 18 pages.
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Download: $0.85 a piano solo song layered with other digital sounds recorded on June 17th 2009 in memory of the many years ago I spent in Vermont with my late parents. This will be on an upcoming 2009 CD titled: "Unrequited" from American Jazz/NewAge pianist Michael Guy
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Download: $0.35 2 files in 1 download, 128kps mp3s. These go with my demo for my Piano Sonata#1 score book. Also see the downloads for movements 1 & 2. These two files include a transitional bridge from movement 2 to the next one, and then movement 3 - a Presto march that is short but fast with dissonance. Hard to play but has a catchy almost Tchaikovsky influenced melody in a little more modern style like Bartok.
Please see the other Sonata#1 downloads in my Storefront and the full score book for recital & performing pianists.
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Download: $0.70 The mp3 sound files for performances of first two movements of composer Michael Guy's Piano Sonata #1. It is modern 20th century style (composers like Ravel, Ginastera, Bartok, Copland) with a Latin influence and for advanced college and professional recital pianists.
See the score book here at his Lulu Storefront under the name "Piano Sonata#1 (My Spanish).
Two files in one download: 128kbps/ Movement 1 (3 + 3 + 2, Allegro) and Movement 2 (Moderato, molto legato)
Hear more of his classical music and podcasts at:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/00285209287343999779
or his website: http://miguy7.webs.com/portfolio.htm
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Print: $10.49 Download: $4.00 American composer & jazz pianist with jazz CDs on JzCDz.com which he recently published in 2008. This composer has written "classical" music since ca. 1979. Composed in '86, revised '97 & while publishing; 37 pages, 4 movements>
#1. [3+3+2] uptempo, rhythmic - Spanish feel. syncopated and staccato chords & bass
#2. Molto Legato: Smooth arpeggios in R.H., an intense romantic melody in minor interpolated
#3. Presto: a fast march with dissonance
#4. Recap of movement#1's ideas but in new meter - rock-style chords lead into baroque figures leading to:
#CODA: (ending)a movement in itself: Bach influenced but with jazz harmony. Serene chords extend the harmony into Jazz 13th, 11th, & 9ths. More rhythmic than classical.
Difficulty: moderately advanced (those able to play Bartok, Ravel, Stravinsky, Bach, American works)
Influence: Jazz, modern 20th century, Latin-Spanish composers, Baroque composers like Bach, Purcell
mp3 available soon / podcast at: http://miguy7.webs.com/portfolio.htm
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In Memory OnlyIn Memory Only (multimedia download)
Download: $0.49 The opening introduction track from my 2nd upcoming CD release this December 2008 called IN MEMORY ONLY.
This excerpt from the title track serves as both an Intro and Outro (final track on CD) - Go to my Google Blogger webpage to access the FREE Download direct access from this Lulu Storefront for JzCDz.com
LINK:http://cdinmemoryonly.blogspot.com/
The download is free to promote the release of this CD. Thanks from Michael Guy L'ecluse, jazz/new age pianist/composer
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Download: $0.70 COMPOSER: michael guy, FILES: 2 Digital 44.1, 128Kbps TIME[2:06, 2:25] These two excerpts are to follow the Excerpts #3 & 4 of Movement #1 [though it doesn't have to be that way!] SEARCH other Symphony files for other Excerpts of Move.#1 in my Storefront. These two are a quiet harp, strings & woodwind section in a pastoral mood PLUS: then a very uptempo variation of Theme#2 from movement#1 which in this digital version includes a Drum Trap set with orchestra keeping a syncopated beat! It has a repetitive chordal rhythmic country-like theme for orchestra. Full orchestra includes MIDI instruments from samples like an electric guitar tossed in! Upbeat and contemporary variation. [128Kbps files x 2] CONTACT:MICHAEL GUY for Film/video use AT: http://www.blogger.com/profile/00285209287343999779
HEAR a podcast of Symphony excerpts at: http://nativeamericansymphony.blogspot.com/
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Download: $0.75 COMPOSER: michael guy FILE: 1 wma@128Kbps TIME: 3:59 MUSIC: ending to Movement#1, "Symphony on Native American Themes" (Sym.One) 1995 This is scored for full orchestra, harp, (midi) piano, w prominent solo and duet violin parts. The midi piano parts play both orchestral piano parts and additional MIDI programs.
You can hear this excerpt and all the Symphony excerpts at my personal website or Blog listed below. SEARCH Keywords: "ALEGRO VIVO" in Lulu to find the other excerpt downloads in this Symphony
HEAR more of Michael Guy's music at http://www.blogger.com/profile/00285209287343999779
and: http://nativeamericansymphony.blogspot.com/
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Download: $0.99 COMPOSER: michael Guy FILES: (2) Digital 44.1, 192Kbps mp3 TIME[2:23, 2:00]
These 2 excerpts are to follow the Intro. of Movement #1 called "Children of the Dawn Country" Please search Allegro Vivo for Symphony files for Intro. & Opening.
Excerpts are: Theme#2, move.#1 which is an uptempo country-like theme for orchestra strings only - excerpt 2: a short orchestra fantasy spun out of an Indian tune called "Passamaquoddy Song of Greeting". Uses full orchestra and percussive MIDI instruments. [192Kbps mp3 files x 2] SCORE Published soon!
HEAR this music @ http://nativeamericansymphony.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html
CONTACT:MICHAEL GUY for Film/video use AT:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/00285209287343999779
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Download: $0.99 COMPOSER: Michael Guy DOWNLOAD: 2 files @ 128Kbps, Digital 44.1 TIME:[2:25, 3:05] MUSIC: Intro.& Alto Flute solo/Opening: "Children of the Dawn Country"
I studied orchestration during the 90's while taking care of my elderly parents - I had time but no money - Along with the first Roland Digital workstation I managed to buy, I also bought sound-cards of decent orchestral samples for that era.
I wrote this orchestration out on paper and recorded parts into my sequencer. I'm happy with the sound and a more musical way of working than today's computers.
This music has a Native American-feeling using original tunes based on Indian songs I used to sing at the piano. I had a book by a Natalie Curtis who in 1910 wrote down some of the songs of the old Indian Chiefs.
The opening is the Eastern Tribes or Wabanaki; They called themselves "Children of the Dawn Country"
Hear this music in an upcoming Podcast by going to:http://nativeamericansymphony.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html
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Download: $0.90 From my 2005 CD, "In Memory Only" to be released 2008 when an outlet is found and when August Ocean Overture is released first.
This is one of my most popular posts at my Blog at CTI and on AuthorsDen.com. A studio take I did going all the way back to 1997 or so I think.
Features: full quartet with drums, bass, synthesizers on chords and then the solo on piano. My best jazz solo I did during that period.
Unsual sound due to Augmented chords and short, biting accents that represent the "broken-heart" part! 192Kbps mp3. Track 2 from the CD "In Memory Only" No Preview but HEAR THIS TRACK IN FULL and others from MichaelGuy's CD: InMemoryOnly @ my Gcast-PODcast at: http://cdinmemoryonly.blogspot.com/
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Download: $0.59 Go to: www.theLastRenaissanceMan.net (the writing and music site for Michael Guy) and you can hear this track in full from the 1986 synthesizer recording: "Songs from the Golden Flute" CLICK on the "Golden Flute" button or link from the Home Page. This was one of my first recordings and features some pretty cool Analog synth work from Sequential Circuits, stuff that today many are buying samples again. Why? Because, analog synths could "burn" on solos and had a nice fat sound. My solo over this group is more rock with jazz overtones. This was recorded right at the end of my "rock period" after returning to Florida from New York City in the 1980s. I hope to release this CD intact soon as it is "Classic" early NewAge rock/jazz fusion of the 80's!
HEAR THIS! & my music @
http://www.thelastrenaissanceman.net/GoldenFlute.html
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SeaBreeze in E minorSeaBreeze in E minor (multimedia download)
Download: $0.40 The main track of my CD, August Ocean Overture the Seabreeze theme (see my Storefront here) taken into an uptempo almost country-jazz walk, after a mellow, walking bass and organ intro that has harmonics in the bass sample. After that the main piano part is two tracks not solo: original uptempo chords and bass done on the keyboard, then the solo done in another pass all then recorded to a 2-track Mini Disc - download "Seabreeze in G" for the conclusion!
192Kbps mp3 from the CD released on iTUNES & CDbaby April 2008
No preview but GET CD AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE and HEAR MORE AT: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
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BIG-WAVE RiderBIG-WAVE Rider (multimedia download)
Download: $0.70 mp3 release from my CD, August Ocean Overture featuring my jazz piano solo. Includes other digital programs besides Bosendorfer Grand piano; choirs, strings, organ. It was recorded in one take live to 2-Tracks without overdubs. A special performance for me, because it was the last take I did in my home studio before moving from Daytona Beach, FL, (inland!) away from my beloved ocean - a tough financial choice! I like the awesome streaks of power chords in A major Mixolydian and the refrain in D minor built on a progression all composers play sooner or later.
This is very much NEW AGE Piano but with a Jazz improv approach. 10' long. Yes, it's more about the power of BIG WAVES than the Riders!
FIND MY CD HERE at CDbaby & on iTUNES
http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
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Download: $0.45 An improvisation on the Theme to my new age piece: "BIG-WAVE Rider" on my CD, August Ocean Overture but will probably be cut to save time. I still like it a lot and was done immediately after cutting the Big Wave tune in my home studio in one take. I used a rotary setting and i like the sometimes staccato touch to the organ, which without a time-keeping part, keeps perfect rhythm. From that big melody in my 10' piece, BIG WAVE RIDER.
Time - about 2:50
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Big-Wave PreludeBig-Wave Prelude (multimedia download)
Download: $0.45 A prelude for strings, choir, organ off of Michael Guy's CD: August Ocean Overture Meant to be immediately followed by his New Age piano&electric digital tune: Big Wave Rider a piece filled with the majesty of big waves If you purchase this buy Big-WAVE Rider. It "ain't no Beach Boys!"
Opens with the mysterious call of "the Sirens" beckoning sailors to their doom! Time = 3:55 Enjoy this strange sound HEAR MORE AT: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
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theDEEP AbysstheDEEP Abyss (multimedia download)
Download: $0.99 from Michael Guy's CD: AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE - A funky, bass-heavy jazz groove you could even dance to, with bluesy rifts and a toe-tapping pop beat. VOCALS, a deep rich baritone on a mellow hypnotic line. You can click on the PREVIEW button to hear a minute of song.
INCREDIBLE Foxy (Lady!) LYRICS have to do with the images on the cover: "...they move through a LOVE they must Renew And the HURRICANE, it spins above YOU, While deep within the Abyss, the predatory SHARK still swims..."
DIGITAL KEYS/Guitar, Drums - Vocals had no compression, BUT, the second refrain is SUPPOSE to sound "underwater" (further from Mic.)
IF you had my SONGBOOK "aCroSs the SEA of mAdnEss" available here- they're in there. c. 2007 ALL RIGHTS ARE REGISTERED
Time = 4:46
CD available at iTUNES & CD-BABY: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
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Orion Calling 2000Orion Calling 2000 (multimedia download)
Download: $0.70 March, year 2000 and Ensonique ruled! 3 week recording sessions went into late hours. I had bought the keyboard, not rented, but strangely after the 3 weeks sent it back with a broken disc drive - Mistake! Not for the piano sounds which were only fair, BUT the Electric guitar samples were AWESOME!
I edited two MIDI based programs on Ensoniq samples called, "STARLITE Harmonics" & "DEEP SPACE Bouy" - You'll hear them in this all midi guitar Hymn set in a Yearning/Burning Bb minor.
The story: I came down one night from my rooftop, after observing the constellation "Orion" with binoculars - SO beautiful!- at 11pm that night I did this take.
There's never been a more "heavenly" moment since!
High bitrate mp3 & Loud! Time = 8:07
HEAR MORE of CD AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE at http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
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My CountryMy Country (multimedia download)
Download: $0.70 A 192Kbps mp3 of one of only two Vocal tracks on my JAZZ CD: August Ocean Overture
Michael Guy on vocals though you can see by his Storefront postings he's a piano soloist (over 30 years), he did however sleep in a Holiday Inn last night After the lyric it carries on with a classical piano solo BUT, the piano part to this song is pure Country/JAZZ in the spirit of Keith Jarrett - rolling, blues country line on a COUNTRY chord progression with fast runs.
LYRICS: (my English ancestors coming to America in 1649!) Available in MY SONGBOOK: "Across the SEA of MADness"
c. 2007 ALL RIGHTS REGISTERED
Time = 4:55
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My CountryMy Country (multimedia download)
Download: $0.49 PIANO + VOCAL country blues was to be a piano solo by itself. One of the first 2005 takes for CD "AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE" - a little dry, so I wanted to add something: what a great tune on a July afternoon session. The piano: true "Keith Jarrett" influenced country-jazz. I kept singing lyrics to the refrain. One night in August I got them down on paper. The next day on vocal track. What is a piano soloist doing singing? I'm a baritone, I did spend 10 years in my church choir dealing with written bass parts -
You'll like the CLASSIC COUNTRY progression and my JAZZY R.H. RUNS. I only had a Shure SM58 mic. and no outboard gear.
THE LYRICS: my English ancestors coming to America in 1649(!) as farmers and fishermen. I had one who fought in the "Battle of Long Island" (you'll hear that)
Lyrics in MY SONGBOOK (here at LULU): "ACROSS the SEA of MADNESS"
c. 2007, All Rights Reserved. Downloads in about 10' on modem. 4.5mb
Time: 4:52
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Rebirth of the CoolRebirth of the Cool (multimedia download)
Download: $0.70 Another breezy JAZZ Blues from Michael Guy's CD, August Ocean Overture done with multi layered keyboards in a post Miles Davis "cool" mode or a Pat Metheny-like mid-period sound -resonant and realistic Acoustic Guitar bit on the front end. Then strings, electic jazz piano sounds take over. Always a fine, moving bass in his left hand. He said: "No drums at my session and it was too improvised; the guitar is playing off a keyboard sample."
Drums or not, it keeps a perfect rhythm and his solo based on a falling D minor pentatonic faultlessly builds in activity as this track builds to an upward flourish at the end.
High bitrate 256Kbps mp3, a bit too loud at times but it was a live performance.
Time = 6:42
HEAR MORE AT: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
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Jazz Dance ImageJazz Dance Image (multimedia download)
Download: $0.99 This groove will wrap around you like a warm summer night and full moonlight -- recorded in 1995 on a deck of synthesizers and midi sequencers ["I like it because there's a "prosperity" feeling - Also because it reminds me of that wonderful time in my life before all hell broke loose and I lost my family!]
"in the groove" and it's more than one groove!
Warm strings, synths, thick synth bass, keep going with a solid drum beat.
NOTE: JAZZ GUITARISTS [i.e. Pat Metheny influence] or SOLOISTS(horns, sax,)? CONTACT Michael Guy
NOTE: The FULL VERSION at a Higher Bitrate file SOUNDS GREAT!> IS on CD: AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE
HEAR MORE AT: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelguy
4.98mb/Time = 5:26
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JzCDz.com> CDs, songbooks, books on music> Contemporary Compositions by Original Composers> THE music that's not promoted by the Established Industry!
If you've listened to the FREE PREVIEWS here and still wish to hear more free music (not from this CD) from this pianist/composer you can go to his Flash Player at his blog (Note you must sign in to leave a comment) but the Player should play.
THANKS & Michael Guy hopes you choose to support his CD RELEASE here from LULU on NEW YEAR'S EVE DAY!
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