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the ongoing saga of Papa Mali, a touring musician and defender of mystic truths and fables, both modern and ancient.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Papa Mali and Bill Kreutzmann listed in Rolling Stone's Best Bets for NYE

New Year’s Eve Rock Guide: From My Morning Jacket to Wu-Tang Clan : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
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PAPA MALI PLAYS AUSTIN

PAPA MALI PLAYS AUSTIN

Papa Mali interviewed in Offbeat.

Papa Mali interviewed in Offbeat.
(above) click here

Meet the editors! Welcome to 'mysterious forces', a blog with a difference!

Meet the editors! Welcome to 'mysterious forces', a blog with a difference!
Job #1: helping us to help you get your supernatural kicks, one view at a time.

If traditionally conservative middle America can turn out in numbers like this, hope is alive!!!

If traditionally conservative middle America can turn out in numbers like this, hope is alive!!!
Barack Obama drew over 100,000 supporters in St. Louis in October 2008. Click on this photo for a video of Obama giving an amazing speech!

"My Man!"

"My Man!"
Click on the above photo for a video, entitled 'Yes, We Can'.

VOODOO FUNK

VOODOO FUNK
Click on this - you won't be sorry!

ALOHA !!!

ALOHA !!!

Papa Goes Hawaiian

Papa Goes Hawaiian
Mali in Maui

Papa Mali and Bill Kreutzmann

Papa Mali and Bill Kreutzmann
"How do you make your shirt do that?"

My peoples in Maui...

My peoples in Maui...
Matt, Jeremy, Julie and BenJammin'

MAHALO !!!

MAHALO !!!

Johnny Cash - "Christmas As I Knew It"

Johnny Cash - "Christmas As I Knew It"
Think your christmas was bad? click on Johnny for a song that'll bring a tear to your eye.

HOPE

HOPE

Papa Mali and Bill Kreutzmann listed in Rolling Stone's Best Bets for NYE

Papa Mali and Bill Kreutzmann listed in Rolling Stone's Best Bets for NYE
click on poster or details

Soul Santa

Soul Santa
A collection of righteously funky soul gems for your holiday groove party!

Big Chief of the nation, the whole wild creation...

Big Chief of the nation, the whole wild creation...

Friendly Forces

Previously, on 'Mysterious Forces'...

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    • ►  March (3)
      • ►  Mar 12 (1)
      • ►  Mar 26 (2)

let's listen to some old, scratchy records!

let's listen to some old, scratchy records!
Vinyl is like a drug to me...

Music soothes the savage breast...

In the coming weeks and months, I will be talking about records. Records that I collect. Records that I would like to collect. And definitely records that I LOVE to listen to. Mostly vinyl records, 45s and LPs, but if I dig it, it can be recorded on an old cassette tape and I'll write about it.

WARNING: This is NOT an invitation to submit demo tapes. Hey, I'm a musician, I understand. But the whole self -promotion thing...well, let me put it this way - it has a time and a place, and Mysterious Forces is simply not that time and place.

In Austin, where everyone is a musician and everyone has a CD, and every restaurant, coffee shop, bookstore and laundromat has live music, there is a popular bumper sticker that reads: "NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOUR BAND".

Hee hee...well, uh..of course...not YOUR band, dear reader.

But this is precisely why my thousands of old vinyl records give me so much pleasure. They don't sound like anything I can go out and hear at my neighborhood tavern or find on modern television. They come from a different era (mostly 1930s thru 1970s in my case, and especially the '60s and early '70s). The scratchiness seems to enhance my listening pleasure, as I drift back to a time when all I had to worry about was where my next record was coming from. I love lifting the needle on to the groove. I love holding the sleeve in my two hands, staring at the artwork, re-reading the liner notes and singing along in my head to the lyric sheet. I love making mixtapes ( or mix CDs...I swear, even CDs sound superior when they are burned from a vinyl record!)

Heard any good records lately?


Nobody gives a fuck about your band, Pt. I

Nobody gives a fuck about your band, Pt. I
click here for a hilarious look into the vain and self-concious world of band promo pictures!
 

take a good long look.

take a good long look.
y'know...sometimes things aren't what they seem...