I'm thrilled to tell you the CD has been edited and is now in the hands of the listening panel for final review.  That will mean a few last alterations and then it is on to duplication.  Didn't quite make the projected release date of November 15th.  However, Eskaton the CD should be available in the second week of December.
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The instrumental song, Elijah's Whirlwind, is the only keyboard-driven song on the album.  The rolling keys nudge the rhythm.  However, guitar solo is still the feature as nice riffs are flanked by sass brass and pan flute.  The metaphor that has been a theme throughout the album is carried forward in this last piece too.  God's dealings with humanity are modeled in his choosing the people of Israel as his own.  One prominent prophet, Elijah, left the earth in a fiery chariot riding on the wi...
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Loyal Love is a musical expression of God's never dying, endless love.  A popular Old Testament maxim is the Hebrew word checed, it is interpreted variously - lovingkindness, favor, goodness, merciful, good deed, in a word, Loyal Love.  This kind of love can only come from God.  This is the perfect final track of my instrumental jazz album.  It carries forward the metaphor of God's interaction in the history of humanity.  His Loyal Love is a motif of scripture from beginning to end.

Things con...
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GoldSash Publishing is proud to release the song XIN3OHd.  The title, XIN3OHd, pronounced zinth-ree-ode, is a culmination of my years of study in Greek and Hebrew, brought to bear upon life experience.  It must always maintain an element of mystery.  Its truth discovered will turn the city upside down.  The music conveys that mystery.  It is a very complex jam.  4/4 yeilds to 12/8 only to discover the original 4/4 embedded inside.  It is next to impossible to keep your head from bobbing as it...
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