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Play I'maan Sh'mo Play Du Ew Noe Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1. Nightfall 2. Ahf-ri-kha 3. I'maan Sh'mo 4. Burning Chrome 5. Ancient Clouds 6. Samo Samo 7. Communication Failure 8. A Postponed Trip to Alpha Centauri 9. Ugly Forest 10. Subtracting Photons 11. Gynmonpedie 6-435 12. The Annunaki Transmit an Urgent Message to My People 13. Du Ew Noe  | | Play Miles Still Smiles Play Pathway Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1. A Study in Blue 2. I Saw The Whole Thing-The Clown Stabbed Him 3. Liquid Nightmare 4. Pathway 5. Surrealism (One) 6. The Dark Arc of Joy 7. A Vorlon Hymn 8. Reality Check 9. Surrealism (Two) 10. Heaven's Quantum Quartet 11. Miles Still Smiles 12. Ugly Forest 13. Angels Singing-Part I |
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Play The Pathology of Dominance Play Hang Up The Phone Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1. The Pathology Of Dominance 2. It's Your Life 3. Ol' Joe Shows Another Side of His Personlaity 4. Go Down Moses (Let My People Go) 5. Who Do You Think I Am 6. The Wisdom of the Palm Wine 7. Hang Up The Phone 8. Wish I Was Out Junkin' Right Now | | Play Step Beyond Reason . . . Play Epitaph for a Departed Canine Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1. If I Had Any Regrets, I've Forgottem Them 2. Step Beyond Reason and Sit On The Front Porch 3. Singing Stars 4. Dissecting a Fat Dog 5. Epitaph for the Departed Canine |
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Play Mystery (Part 1) Play Francis (Part 1) Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1 Mystery (Part 1) 2 Francis (Part 3) 3 Mystery (Part 2) 4 Francis (Part 4) 5 Mystery (Part 3) 6 Francis (Part 1) 7 Mystery (Part 4) 8 Francis (Part 2) 9 Genesis (Part 6) | | Play A Fork Or Unexpected Detour Play She Called Daddy Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1 A Fork Or Unexpected Detour 2 A Murder Of Crows And Jesters 3 She Called Daddy 4 The Maze Shines Brightly Through The Darkness 5 Hellhounds and Friends 6 Oh My Dear Cousin 7 Lost Folks 8 The Smell Of Society 9 Deep In Sleep |
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| More About Michael F. Patterson: Michael F. Patterson has been involved in music for most of his adult life. While attending high school for a year at Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H. in the '60s, he played his first "paid gigs" as a saxophonist in the soul band the "Au Naturelles." After returning to Indiana, enthralled by Jimi Hendrix, Patterson, with his father’s blessing, switched to guitar and intermittently played in a number of rock and soul bands for about 10 years before taking a long hiatus from music. During the late ’80s, his friend—recording engineer and producer—Craig Harding enticed Patterson back into the fold as a guitarist and midi programmer for his Fort Wayne Ajax Recording Team studio. Session work eventually lead to covering electric bass parts on a number of projects, so Patterson switched primarily to that instrument in 1989. After studying with David Johnson, an alumnus of Roy Ayers’ and Betty Carter's groups, Johnson convinced him to pick up the contrabass. Patterson studied a number of years with Fort Wayne Philharmonic assistant principle Kevin Piekarski and occasionally with Sam Agres of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and jazz bassists Earl “Doug” Hayes of Chicago and Ken Gotshall of New York. That led him to work with a number of local bands and several stellar musicians, including saxophonist Rob Dixon of Indianapolis, Jimmy McGriff and Jack McDuff alumnus Leon Cook of Toledo, and with world-renowned saxophonist Ritchie Cole along with drummer Russ Hunt during a short Midwestern tour stint. He also worked as an assistant for recording engineer and producer Harding in Fort Wayne's Ajax Recording Team studio—now the Portland, Oregon-based September Audio—on numerous album projects and corporate soundtracks and, with Harding, composed and produced the opening eight-minute musical segment for the Charleston, S.C. ballet company's production of “Dracula.” Intrigued by the works of artists from Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Olatunji to Samuel Barber and Karlheinz Stockhausen, he and Harding embarked upon a series of recordings that utilize a wide variety of musical ideas. In addition to recording and releasing seven solo projects and two collaborative projects with composer and pianist Jim Steele (collectively known as the Arkham Chamber Society), Patterson appears on numerous regionally and several nationally released albums, including singer Joyce Lawson's "Chapter III" and the Todd Harrold Band's “Mr. Whatever.” He also played on Tony Marino's debut recording, "Havana Heat." He co-produced Santana alumnus Ernie Johnson's R&B release "Squeeze It" on Phat Sounds Records and arranged tracks for former Motown, Malaco and Ace Records staff writer, now record company executive Frank-O Johnson's recently released "Cheating Town" album project on Phat Sounds. He continues to perform with various jazz, rock, R&B groups, but currently spends the bulk of his “musical life” developing and recording his own self-styled “africentricscifi sound” projects under the banner of YANMMusic—often foregoing “traditional” instruments to create compositions through manipulating naturally “found” sounds. He currently serves as communication director for the Three Rivers Jenbé Ensemble, a youth development program founded by writer and musician Omowale-Ketu Oladuwa. The group is dedicated to studying and playing the music of the Malinké people of West Afrika. Patterson recorded and coproduced the ensemble's latest recording, “Honoring the Tradition,” and also plays in Jatta, the adult adjunct of the Three Rivers Jenbé Ensemble. He lives in Fort Wayne with his wife Robbin (an incredible “wearable arts” designer), his daughter Anastasia, Lizzie the frog, Kermit the frog and their cat, Little Man. |