deans liner notes:
The music collected here was woven into existence in a three-day period of live in the studio recording with my colleagues jim anton and jt bates. The sounds captured reveal the fruits of uncounted hours of ensemble building; stretching and merging the possibilities of strict part-playing with wide open explorations of each melodic moment. Dissolving the individual "I" in the dynamic liquid of the collective "us", a new entity is unleashed, capable of seeking ever-higher levels of expressions unavailable to the isolated player.
You know...... a band.
In other words, thank you from the bottom of my heart to the true heroic warriors of this enterprise, jim anton and jt bates. Thanks for: breathing life into these melodies, searching the honest depths of your emotions, listening, listening, listening soaring through the process, with humor and grace, and on and on.
And for those who want to join this band, the simple membership requirements are as follows. . .
Open up.
Listen.
Be healed.
-Dean Magraw
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Dean: I saw you play years ago at Dakota!! My Mother, Nancy Moyer from Northfield is one of your biggest fans, you know. Best to you from Florida, Maureen Valley Formerly of Northfield, now a Floridian
Have a great week! Hope you can tune in to the show this Sunday! If you have any requests or comments please feel free to leave us a voice comment on our profile so we can play it on the air.
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"Live at Midtown," should be here on Saturday. Notice I say should. It might, it might not. If not, it will be soon. I will be posting videos as well. Hope you guys have fun with it!
Hey Dean! I hope your release party was a great success! Haven't seen you in about 30 years, oh how the time does fly. Wishing you happiness, your old friend from yesteryear! K
dean, you've always been one of my favorites ever since that day about 12 years ago when I booked you on the UMD campus and you played with the vibes player from superior. love it!
Greetings Dean. Jeff's in the studio and on the road. In the meantime we've got some tasty nuggets for y'all.
The Acoustic Time Jam and the Acoustic Death Jam emerged from some late night studio work on "Matter of Time" and "Death Don't Have No Mercy" and are live on Jeff's page. This shit'll blow your mind.
