Thanks, Thanking's and Go Raibh Maith Agat's.....

Just a quick post to say thanks very much to SmoothJazz.com "The World's Smooth Jazz Radio Station since 2000!" and 'Sound Fusion Radio' (London) for adding a number of tracks to their playlist. 

Thanks to Aja at UK based Jazz & Soul radio show 'Ketch A Vibe' for featuring 'Stop, Start, Rewind' off the new E.P. on their April 14th edition of the show. The podcast of which can be check'd out at the following link : Ketch A Vibe 282, April 14th.

The show is syndicated each week to the following radio stations.

BluesJazz Radio (NC/ USA)

XRP Radio (Birmingham UK)
Play FM (Austria) 
Electric Lion Radio (London UK)
Cruise FM (London UK)
Impact Radio (Italy)
Hearthis (Germany)

Ketch A Vibe 282 by Anthony Aja Allsop on hearthis.at

Also, thanks very much to Wayne Fleming for featuring various tracks on his 'T-Phunk Funk, Soul & Northern Soul Show' on TCRFM 92.3 (Ireland) the last two weeks. Much appreciated indeed.

The Patterns Keep Repeating, While The Drums They Keep On Beating....

Hello Twenty-Sixteen,
How you been getting on so far?

Really, sweet.. 

Me? Yea, I'm good. Just finished this new Minimalist, Trip-Hop track called, 
'The Patterns Keep Repeating, While The Drums They Keep On Beating'. Check it out later if you like.




You going to the 'Irish Garden Snails Exhibition' this weekend at The Hunt Museum?

Cool, yea, talk to yea there.

Potato Peelings and Sentimental Feelings III....

Here at 'Potato Print Productions', "the alternative greeting card company that say's the things mainstream greeting card companies won't." We've yet again been busy expanding our range of cards for a new year, in order to cater to a wider array of antisocial and dysfunctional needs. Needs both you and your loved one's may pleasantly find the solution to within our ever expanding range. Below are a sample 
of some of our new cards for the coming year..... 

THE 'GOOD LUCK' EXAM CARD

THE 'BEST OF LUCK - YOUR FIRED' CARD

THE 'HAPPY 60TH ANNIVERSARY' CARD

THE 'GENUINELY SENTIMENTAL' FATHERS DAY CARD

If you find that any of the above cards meet your 'socially obligated' needs and are suitably sentimental for your most treasured of family and personal occasions. They can be found as part of a much wider selection of cards available for purchase at.....

www.PotatoPrintProductions.ie

Happy Christmas!!!

In Memory of Father J. Franklin....

So, very exciting news, as I'm sure all you vinyl junkies can relate to, I finally got my hands on an original copy of an extremely hard to find Funk album I've been looking for, for ages.... 'Father Jezebel Franklin & his All-Star Altar Boys'. 

Released on a small, obscure County Sligo record label, 'Demon Records', which has long ceased operations. This Nineteen Sixty Eight long-player was the first and only release from 'Christian Funk' pioneer Father Jezebel Franklin, a Roman Catholic priest from the parish of Knockmore, near Lough Conn in County Mayo.

Father J. Franklin, as well as being the local parishioner and pillar of the community, was also a well seasoned musician. And with his live band the 'All-Star Altar Boys' he took the visceral, sexual Funk groove's of James Brown and fussed them with the moral, spiritual teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. A powerful combination that took the late Nineteen Sixties, Connaught Showband scene by storm for a number of months. Particularly during the Nineteen Sixty Eight period of Lent.

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Below is a .wav file of 'Loose With Her Juice' ripped from the vinyl record

As a humble, retiring and devout member of the cloth, very little is know about Father Jezebel Franklin. He appears to receive production credits on 'Demon Records' Nineteen Sixty Nine release, 'The Singing Sister's of The Catholic Ladies Institute of Theology (C.L.I.T)'. A religious recording of the now dispelled County Kerry monastic order's choir. But after this Father J. Franklin seem's to disappear totally from the world of recorded music.

Irish Music

According to local sources Father Jezebel Franklin continued to perform live with various lineup's of the 'All-Star Altar Boys' for a number of years. But unfortunately, like many of the great County Mayo Jazz and Funk musician's of the period, Father Franklin was drawn into the dark and dangerous world of drug addiction. Local new's archives from the period state Father Franklin died as a result of a heroin overdoes on the 2nd of June, Nineteen Seventy Two, "behind Misses Gleeson's cake and bun stand at the Knockmore Village Summer Fair". A sad and untimely demise for the originator and purveyor of 'Christian Funk'.

R.I.P 'Father Jezebel Franklin'

7th of September, 1938 - 2nd of June, 1972.

  

(Funeral mass card courtesy of Knockmore parishioner Bridget Bernadette Kelly)  

Claymore Wants to Get Laid More....

So I was talking to my good friend Claymore the other day. He's a really sound guy and we go back a long way. He was telling me he recently created a profile on the dating website 'Plenty of Fish', but wasn't really having much luck so far. So I figured I'd do what any good, well intentioned, interfering friend would do and take it upon myself to share his profile on my blog without asking his permission. 

If your a young woman or know of a young woman who's looking for a really sweet, sincere fellow with a heart of gold, then take the time to click on little old Claymore's profile below. He's a catch!

If you find you take a shine to Claymore or if your just up for a free fish and chip at The Golden Grill do give him a shout over at 'Plenty of Fish', I'm sure he'd be delighted to hear from you. But don't tell him you saw his profile here, he's a very sensitive little fellow at times.... 

Anyway's, I'm off to practise me some Slap Bass! Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Potato Peelings and Sentimental Feelings II....

Here at 'Potato Print Productions', "the alternative greeting card company that say's the things mainstream greeting card companies won't." We've been busy expanding our range of cards for 2015, in order to cater to a wider array of antisocial and dysfunctional needs. Needs both you and your loved one's may pleasantly find the solution to within our ever expanding range. Below are a sample of some of our new cards for the coming year..... 

THE TERMINALLY ILL 'GET WELL SOON' CARD

Here's a card for those of you that are worried about a friend or relative dealing with suicidal thoughts.....

THE SUICIDAL CHRISTMAS CARD

THE 'I'M SORRY' APOLOGIES CARD

THE 'DOMESTIC ABUSE' WEDDING THANK YOU CARD

And finally, here's a card for those of you dealing with or who know someone dealing with casual substance abuse....

THE 'MASHED POTATOES' BIRTHDAY CARD

If you find that any of the above cards meet your 'socially obligated' needs and are suitably sentimental for your most treasured of family and personal occasions. They can be found as part of a much wider selection of cards available for purchase at.....

www.PotatoPrintProductions.ie

Happy New Year!

Potato Peelings and Sentimental Feelings....

So somewhat frustrated with the severe lack of quality greeting cards that are on sale these days. My good friend Oswald Rutager and I have set up our own company 'Potato Print Productions' in order to produce a line of quality cards that serve as an alternative to the majority of below par cards that are on the market. Greeting cards that aren't just adorned with standard generic meaningless sentiment. Cards that don't, as our CEO, Indonesia McInnerny says, "Say fuckin' nothing, to nobody, 'bout no one". Cards you wouldn't be ashamed to give to friends, relative's, co-workers or the terminally ill. 

We've been hard at work on this new project, so without further ado, here is a selection of cards from the 'Potato Print Productions' range.... 

THE FATHER'S DAY CARD

THE VALENTINE'S DAY CARD

THE WEDDING DAY CARD

We're also proud to announce that 'Potato Print Productions' will be producing short runs of cards to cater for 'minority social occasions'. The type of occasions the major card manufacturers, on a general basis, just don't tend to cater to. Here for example, is a card for those of you who wish to commemorate dumping your partner on their twenty seventh birthday..... 

If you find that any of the above cards meet your 'socially obligated' needs and are suitably sentimental for your most treasured of family and personal occasions. They can be found as part of a much wider selection of cards available for purchase at....

 www.PotatoPrintProductions.ie 

Atoms for Henrietta (Spinning Carousel's in Her Mind) E.P. ....

The Near Future! Atoms for Henrietta

'Atoms for Henrietta (Spinning Carousel's In Her Mind) E.P.' is the follow up to 2010's 'A Little Understanding E.P.'. It took a while, but what can I say, thing's have been fairly hectic down at the penguin sanctuary the last few years..... 

Anyway's, it's a twenty three plus minute Trip-Hop journey that take's you through the bustling street's of New York, the crowded rush hour platforms of a European railway station. Accidentally stumbles upon an extraterrestrial abduction, for no particular reason. Plummets into the deepest, darkest depths of Willie Nelson's dementia stricken mind, for a very specific reason. Shoot's out across the funky Australian 'Outback', and ends the trip with a nice big bag of penny sweets and a bucket of sherbet dip high up in the frozen mountains of the Himalayas.

Just press play below and away we go.....

Additionally, if you feel compelled to add 'Atoms for Henrietta' to your own personal 

music collection, you can do so by purchasing it from The Near Future! Bandcamp page, at the following link.... Click me, you know you wanna

It come's with a bunch of extra item's which include amongst other things the very fine video above and a video of myself doing a stirring duet of 'The Wind Beneath My Wings' with one of the penguins down the sanctuary!

'Lost In Time on Platform Nine (Is This All There Is)'.....

Here's a new Jazzy Trip-Hop track I've been working on for a while entitled 'Lost In Time on Platform Nine (Is This All There Is)'. It's an adaptation of, and also take's it's title from, another piece of music I've no intention of ever composing....

Sincerely,
M. Hayes. 

'Sounds From Inside The Sun'....

New Trip-Hop track with an Electronic feel, inspired by the vast, expansive and fascinating subjects of  'Extraterrestrial Life, Close Encounters, UFO's and Abductions'. All of which I happen to not have the slightest fucking interest in whatsoever.....

So what's with Bodybuilding Magazines?

So, I was in my local Health Food Store buying some Fish Oil and Multivitamin 
supplements the other day and I started scanning through one of the bodybuilding magazine's in the book section. Now just being your average Joe that goes to the gym once or twice a week, the whole culture of bodybuilding isn't something I know a lot about. But having said that it seemed to me that some of the magazine's articles and product adverts were a bit odd? So much so that I bought the magazine just to scan some of the page's and put them up here....     

So what's all this about then?

Greg Plitt

Viagra bodybuilding

Greg Plitt

Australia Tourism Commercial

The following video presentation was commissioned by the National Tourism Board of Australia and subsequently rejected on the grounds that.... 'both culturally and geographically it fails miserably in portraying the people, landscape and wildlife of Australia in an accurate and realistic manner. As an organisation we have no intention whatsoever of using this video to attract tourism to our country.' 

Here it is anyway....



Video editing and jpeg animation made with 'Windows Movie Maker 6.0.6002' and 'Photoshop CS2'. 

'The Marsupials Strut'....

Here's a new Funky, Jazzy, Trip-Hopping Piano Instrumental inspired by the Outback and the Down Under. The accompanying video to which I'm editing at the moment.



In case your wondering the sounds in the intro, outro and in the background throughout the track are a combination of separately recorded Didgeridoo's, in various keys, cut and arranged together to make a sort of collage of noise on which the songs arrangement is then built.