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Wewh!  After 2 years of work, we are nearing the end of the recording part of creating the album, Dream Analog.

This week we record background vocals and horns and then off to Northern California to mix in a real cool studio called Laughing Tiger. Brian (producer) will be rolling up  his sleeves and mixing old school in a great studio set up specifically for mixing analog. We will be creating real vinyl records, CDs and cassettes from these recordings.

Thanks for all the support we have received and encouragement to record analog. It is a great sound. So much more organic information is accessed via the analog process!

Here’s some recent photos taken while recording the last couple songs with June Kato, Jim Whelan and Brian D. Hardin. Guest drummer, Paula Montondo, played drums on a new one just added to the album,  Whatcha Gonna Do.

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Grace Gravity on “In A Dream with Mystic Pete” on KXLU RADIO 88.9 FM May 12, 2019 with some artists from the Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest Crew including Rebecca Stout, Paula Montondo, Mollie White and Under The Sky.

Full-length video here — complete 2 hour show.

*Note if you experience sync issues, change your settings to HD. That solves it!

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KXLU 88.9 FM

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Check out Mystic Pete here: http://www.MysticPete.com

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December 21, 2018

The next dimension is very evident for those who can see it. Great News!  The incorporation of this new level into “daily living” is becoming complete. You don’t have to live on the outside of yourself anymore. You were fooled into thinking that was the way. It’s always been an “inside job”. It’s always been an inner journey. Your life is going to expand more and more, but you will be fine. You will be fine letting go of the shore and floating down stream as Carlos Castanada said. For this is a true way of living and navigating this matrix or whatever you want to call it.

You have played small because you perceived it as the path of least resistance. You thought by being small you would be able to get along with others better and not rock the boat. But now, you see that being you is the BEST you can do. It is the only way to be on your true path. That way all the ingredients are there is perfect cosmic harmony for new things, new wonderful things, to happen. New combinations. You must bring your whole beingness into play and not leave yourself out of the equation. You are a beautiful necessary part of it all.

Do a ceremony with yourself and release the old images of yourself given to your by family, friends and even yourself. Release it gently and let the new present itself. The bigger you. The you – you have always been since you arrived.

Photo by Neha Godbole on Unsplash

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It seems like yesterday it was May and now we are in June. It’s still June now, we didn’t pop into July already? o.k. good.

Here in the sea of the in-between, we are navigating the energies of something different in its consciousness expanding effect.  Keep yourselves together and stay cool. Get into the vibe of feeling good even if you can’t know all the ins and outs of everything or the answers. That is how it is and resisting it only makes you look away from your own true path.  Your mind is not going to understand it. It is beyond what the mind can contain.

Feeling good and trusting is our navigation in the in-between. Don’t let the weirdness throw you.
Your o.k.  I’m o.k.

Time is not linear and yet our mind is conditioned to try and make it work that way. Seems the “mind” needs an overhaul. New information. New schematic. A broader perspective emerging. Turn on some of that deactivated dna and roll.
Stand in the stillness in the center of your being.

I’m sending out a wave of love and centered calmness to you all. There are many out here or in here that are awake to doing their part even if they can’t really define what it is to someone else. That’s because it’s beyond words.
Keep on keeping on.

TURN YOUR LIGHT ON and keep it on.

Photo by Simon Zachrisson on Unsplash

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In June we’ll be recording the last few songs for the new analog record, Dream Analog. Yeah!

The songs keep coming and there are 2 new songs written in May that will be added as well.

There’s a recording of one of them here in this video, called Real Clouds.

Creation doesn’t always come fast but it always comes in perfect timing. Sometimes easy to think that things aren’t happening when the perfect alchemical time/space combination is in the works. It’s in the background quietly working for us and when it’s all right – there it is. Trust in your own perfect timing for your own creative works. Let the flower bloom as it wants to, one petal at a time.

Photo by Mike Wilson  on Unsplash

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Just a little update on my new album Dream Analog.

We recorded two more songs live a couple weeks ago. Bass, drums, keyboards, guitar and lead vocal all live to tape. Talk about walking the high wire. If you’ve never done it, it’s something you must experience for yourself. A certain magical synergy is found in those moments where you know you have to get the take as its about 105 degrees in the room you’re in and you just can’t do the song one more time! It’s not a copy and paste situation (as in digital) and so, everyone really must call in the magic. It works.

We have most of the tracks recorded now. James Whelan (Under The Sky) did a couple sessions and added some amazing piano and guitar to several songs. So great!

June Kato has laid down all the bass and Brian D. Hardin all the drums. We just to add a few more keyboard parts, some horns and some background vocals and Dream Analog will manifest in this reality zone!

I’m writing Chapter 2 of the Dream Analog video series so look for that in the next few months. Here’s Chapter 1 if you haven’t seen it.  Good things to come!

Hope you are all moving forward on your amazing creations as well! Remember no matter what is going on in the world around you, deep down you are Whole and Fine.

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To all the musicians and creative people out there — keep on going!

Do not judge yourself by what is or isn’t reflected back to you by others, social media or whatever external metric. You are an ARTIST — get real — you are a power generator of pure creative source. Your resonance changes the frequency of the planet and adds a new variable to the ever changing tapestry we live. YES it is so!

Photo by “My Life Through A Lens” on Unsplash