A new release from Blood of the Black Owl...

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***Available now in the store (extremely limited stock)!***

Announcing a Blood of the Black Owl / Samaritan Press collaboration,

“Spirit Canoe : Soaring the Shadow Spiral”

Every aspect of this collaborative release was crafted with our collective heart and hands. Showcasing all original visions crafted from the profound artistry of David V. D'Andrea. All components printed & assembled in-house at ~Samaritan Press~ Olympia, WA MMXXIII.

Catalog numbers:

(GTR-033)

Glass Throat Recordings

(SMRTN-003)

Samaritan Press

A limited edition run of 150 dubbed in real time cassettes (comes with digital download).

This release features the following artifacts:

- A 12"x12” two color letterpress print by DV D’Andrea. This drawing was drawn by hand with direct transmission from the Spirit Canoe. It was printed on the C&P platen press (mfg 1910) with foot pumped treadle on 100% cotton rag paper. Signed and numbered in an edition of 150.

- A custom cassette box printed in gold letterpress on black stock with booklet cover featuring custom illustrations throughout.

- Hand stamped and numbered upon vintage antiquated gold cassette shells.

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As a seeker, and long standing solitary practitioner of a path I keep safe within, this collection of ecstatic trance work has become another turn of the great wheel-- a musical memoir if you will, within the light and darkness of personal growth; a collection of experience, not a destination! My heart honors love and longing, and being in awe of the conduit that mystery has given my spirit within the four winds of this medicinal musical.

A journey of acoustic, worldly soundscapes performed as an intense and sometimes brutal aural cleanse; devotional, sacral crafts of my own deepening path towards well-being and natural spirituality: this collection of two works in three movements, and my craft as a whole, is not of religion and thus should never be confused with such particular programs of monotheistic or even polytheistic practice(s). 

"Natural spirituality is the birthright of a consciousness embodied in an Earthly life, and it honors the gifts of that life.” In short, it is the integration of awareness (focus), alignment of self, metamorphosis (release) and actualization. "An organic enactment of connectedness to source. A manifested awareness of inherent connectedness to all. It is a spirituality that belongs to no particular gender, race, age, system, or path. Its only prerequisites are awareness and authentic respectful participation. All else unfolds from these." --Loren Cruden, Compass of the Heart

My intentions offer a strict implementation of authentic hand-crafted ceremonial & ritual instrumentation. A movement with focus on the being through somatic sacred breath-- a flowing music that spirals from the still emptiness of a once-intellectualized self toward that of a primordial embodiment. 

Instrumental conduits feature: Vardlokkur’s mystery* voices & Galdr* Nidstang!* moose hide frame drums* antique horse hide tympani* floor tom* four gates thunder gong* indigenous flutes including a redwood drone* skull callers* bone flutes & whistles* clay ocarinas* antler ceremonial horns* gemshorn* black bear bladder medicine rattle* elk bladder shakers* elk & goat hooves* brass tubular & Mongolian herding bells* original environmental recordings* harmonium* mountain dulcimer* acoustic guitar*

All soundscapes composed, performed, recorded, mixed and produced by Chet W. Scott.

Recorded using a sound console without the use of software simulation and trickery at Glass Throat Recordings on the unceded ancestral lands of the first people of the Dkhw Duw’Absh, (Duwamish Tribe), past and present. I raise up with honor and gratitude the Coast Salish land itself and the Dkhw Duw’Absh. June of MMXIV.

A very special thank you to David V. D’Andrea for your interest, understanding, respect, and beautifully supportive curation of this collection. I am truly grateful and thankful for your spirit.

-Chet W. Scott

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(SIDE A: CASSETTE)

Originally titled "Spirit Canoe: Hailing Father Sky"  this ritual was initially recorded back in February of 2011 during the "Light the Fires!" sessions and was intended to be an exclusive opening ritual to the "Light the Fires!" vinyl format, replacing the CD version "Caller of Spirits." The vinyl format was never released for "Light the Fires!" and the Spirit Canoe offering hibernated till now. In October of 2013, "Spirit Canoe" was offered as a track within a digital compilation showcased through Heathen Harvest. It was entitled "Samhainwork II."

"Soaring the Shadow Spiral" was a private ritual performance captured live during a remote retreat outdoors within the old growth wilderness January of 2014. It was later detailed and finished at Glass Throat Recordings on the unceded ancestral lands of the first people of the Dkhw Duw’Absh, (Duwamish Tribe), past and present.

Both of these ceremonial works were released together as a digital EP (GTR-023) back in 2014 through Glass Throat Recordings.

This is the very first time they have been showcased through any tangible format. I have edited together both works to flow as one journey for Side A of this cassette release. 

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(SIDE B: CASSETTE)

“Cursed Be All Missionaries!” is an audible Nidstang captured live during liminal state of November 1st, 2020 and set into movement at exactly 12:00am PDT.

"Cursed Be All Missionaries!" was a private ritual performance that was later detailed and finished at Glass Throat Recordings of Coast Salish / Duwamish lands.

All Instrumentation, voices and authentic ritual implements: Composed, performed, recorded / mixed and produced by sole member Chet W. Scott (2020).

***AUTHENTIC INSTRUMENTATION*** used in the creation of this craft featured: * A Nithing curse! * voices * bone flutes, whistles and antler ceremonial horns * gemshorn * redwood indigenous drone flute * black bear bladder medicine rattle * thunder (four gates) gong * antique horse hide tympani * floor tom * mountain dulcimer *

The craft was initially offered for a musical compilation benefitting the Yanomami Tribe and was released December 20, 2020 through the Orb Weaver Collective. 

 -Chet W. Scott

 To anyone whom actually takes the time to read this, please know I greatly appreciate your interest and potential support.

I'm relieved to finally announce that tomorrow 3/3/23 for Bandcamp Friday, my thirteen year journey under the moniker of Cycle of the Raven Talons, crafting an album entitled "A Medicinal Musical" will finally be available for purchase. Featuring Glass Throat Recordings original oversized 6"x 6" deluxe gatefolds, this double CD will showcase full clear white foil stamping upon a heavily texted white stock.

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-Chet W. Scott

This medicinal musical journey is dedicated to the people of Turtle Island.

“The way to catch the river is to hold very lightly”

-Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 

Chet W. Scott

under the moniker and original sigil

Cycle of the Raven Talons

presents:

A Medicinal Musical:

Disc :I:

I: Tatanka Nishna Aku

II: My Intentions Dawning

III: To Live Again

Disc :II:  

IV: Crying

V: Seek In Shadow, Release Into Light

A seeker and long standing solitary practitioner of a path I keep within, this collection of sacred ecstatic drum and flute work has become another turn of the great wheel. A musical memoir if you will, within the light and darkness of personal growth; a collection of experience, not a destination! These four ceremonies are inspired perspectives through the sacred medicine hoop or circle. My heart honors love and longing, and being in awe of the conduit that great mystery has provided my spirit within the four winds of this medicinal musical.

A journey of strictly acoustic, worldly soundscapes performed as an intense and sometimes brutal aural cleanse; devotional, sacral crafts of my own deepening path towards well-being and natural spirituality: this collection and my craft as a whole, is not of religion and thus should never be confused with such particular programs of monotheistic or even polytheistic practice(s). 

"Natural spirituality is the birthright of a consciousness embodied in an Earthly life, and it honors the gifts of that life.” In short, it is the integration of awareness (focus), alignment of self, metamorphosis (release) and actualization. "An organic enactment of connectedness to source. A manifested awareness of inherent connectedness to all. It is a spirituality that belongs to no particular gender, race, age, system, or path. Its only prerequisites are awareness and authentic respectful participation. All else unfolds from these."

-Loren Cruden, Compass of the Heart

My intentions offer a strict implementation of authentic hand-crafted ceremonial & ritual instrumentation. A movement with focus on the being through somatic sacred breath-- a flowing music that spirals from the still emptiness of a once-intellectualized self toward that of a primordial embodiment.

All organic Instrumentation, voices (including choral arrangements) and authentic ceremonial/ritual elements: Composed, performed, recorded and produced by sole member Chet W. Scott

(2009-2022).

Opening prayer, spoken word and song courtesy of my dear brother, my Kola,

Tatanka Nishna Aku. 

Guest sacred breath performers within "To Live Again" courtesy of

Carles Jiménez and Daniel Pablo.

Illustrated Wacanga (Mother's hair) braid spiral courtesy of my brother

James Woodhead. 

Recorded on an actual sound console eschewing the use of all modern instrumentation including software simulation, manipulation and trickery at Glass Throat Recordings upon the unceded ancestral lands of the first people of the Dkhw Duw’Absh, (Duwamish Tribe), past and present. Environmental recordings and performances were captured within wild old growth rain forest and lake locations throughout the Pacific Northwestern region of Turtle Island. I raise up with honor and gratitude the Coast Salish land itself and the Dkhw Duw’Absh.

"Seek In Shadow, Release Into Light" performed and recorded within Heimskautsgerðið (The Arctic Henge), Raufarhöfn, Northeastern Iceland. As well as a remote fjord fishing cabin in Sòlbrekka, Eastern Iceland. 

***AUTHENTIC INSTRUMENTATION***

used in the craft and creation of this collection featured: * original environmental recordings * grandfather elk (40" and 24" moose hide) indigenous ceremonial frame drums * horse hair beater * thunder gong * black bear bladder and elk antler bladder rattles * goat hoof shakers * voices (including animist vocal and flute mimicry) * choral arrangements * antler, horn, redwood, cedar, red willow, birch, walnut and bone indigenous drone/harmony flutes * female elk and black tail deer skull callers * vulture bone whistle * hunter's horns * gemshorn * tibetan ritual horns * clay and wood ocarinas * quartz crystal meditative bowls * antique sleigh bells * small energy bells * large brass tubular bells * antique mongolian herding bells *antique tibetan ritual bells * antique horse hide tympani *

***TESTIMONIALS***

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“A magician who uses music as practice, rather than a musician who creates magical music”

-Aurora Borealis

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“Remember to touch the earth and wash your face in it. And when you breath in that cedar wind, deep soil and rain soaked mosses through the trees, lay upon her and you will know this music.”

-White Elk

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"I sat through these four specifically designed crafts twice. I felt an out of body experience, one I’ve honestly never felt before in music. I can not wait for this album to be released!”

-Loon

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“The winds lift of an Eagle high above, while a petal that falls to the earth in beautiful decay. This I feel, is the message that embodies the medicinal art of Chet W. Scott’s Cycle of the Raven Talons”

-Cypripedioideae

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"A collection of four, twenty minute musical decents into the caves of stillness. This is not music to be taken lightly and put on as driving or background filler. These are soundscapes of an aware meditation through a profound musical experience."

-The Gods Have Not

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“The "Medicinal Musical" Chet W. Scott offers is a sound of primordial spirit. An exquisite and deeply needed plea for reconnection is persuasive and engaged.”

-The Northern Healer Rewilding Collective

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“Using really responsive ear covering headphones, I journeyed deep within this ceremonial craft. I can’t fathom I just sat still through 80 minutes of music. It honestly felt like half that duration. Afterwards, I felt clear minded and emotionally relieved. I experienced an awareness of feeling dialed into my environment so to speak. Much like a sound engineer might tune a room acoustically, these “Medicinal Musicals” Chet W. Scott calls them tuned my being... Intense!”

-Stefan Burnett

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“I sit here in tears as I write this to You. I have a 14 year old son with profound Autism. When I play the "medicinal musicals” of Cycle of the Raven Talons, I can honestly say i’ve never seen him so attentive yet calmed by the sound and feel of the work. He will sit quietly through nearly all four meditations. Thank you dearly."

-Nancy Holbeck (Mother)

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"This collection towers over me as the most transcendent piece of devotional music I've ever heard. I am stunned by Chet W. Scott's ability to create these musical pathways that root us directly to our innermost experiences. These offerings are informed not only buy the wisdom of ancients, but of what is given from within in times of surrender and stillness. Thank you for the medicine."

-James Martinez (Orb Weaver Collective)

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"In the Medicinal Musical, rhythm and primordial breath hold the space for an authentic ceremonial experience. As i entered this web of sound, I felt held in a sonic wheel of mystery, where through masterful elemental channeling, wholeness is restored."

-Lady Heron

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"Regarding "Crying" I saw two Eagles flying in a circle then transforming into flames... to become one women.

Really a beautiful and deep song."

-Celine Cix

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"Follow the breath inward

The stillness becomes movement

The movement becomes stillness  

Once more connected 

Rooted and liberated  

Instinctual memory 

The warmth of presence

Consonance of spirit  

The medicine of being"

-Mist Drinker

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"Thank you for releasing that collection. As I watched the silhouetted trees against moonlight and listened, I deeply connected with the work, as a result was inspired to write on what I took away and was nourished by..."

: As it rises, upon us & o'er hinterlands, 

Radiance & core of being, 

Those Easterly mountainous planes, 

In yore; fallen Giants we're seeing, 

As it rises, exposing colossal planes, 

Thawing out matter, so Nether does rise, 

Re-emergence into ethereal sphere, 

To realign further, than corporeal eyes, 

May those Fires, upon eclipsed lands, 

Cast deeper shadows like an ever arcing sea,

Wild fires of fulfilled & resolved Spirits, bridging 

Across firmament, no longer to become nor be, 

Submerged by black earth & moss, 

The Ancient Body is acme in slumber, 

Through ancestral observance, may we feed

Its dreams, from which we shall nourish & remember, 

Ground awake, primordial roots, 

Dismantle the stratum, duality unmasked, 

Beating heart upon beaten drum, 

Inhale echoes of what ancestors asked, 

Final Night enclosed, as Stars are swallowed,  

Once the clenched wolf jaw beckons, 

So, we all, pass on through, 

The Cycle of the Raven Talons :

January, 13th, MMXX

-Elurka

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PRE-SALE NOW AVAILABLE for novemthree "Storms of Memory" deluxe gatefold CD.

(C)(P) MMXXI Glass Throat Recordings (GTR-031).

***PRE-SALE***

A DELUXE GATEFOLD 6" SIX PANEL COMPACT DISC FEATURING EXCLUSIVE INTERIOR LANDSCAPE ARTWORK courtesy of Bluttantz.

 ***PLEASE NOTE***

Due to supply chain issues and the holidays, please allow 4 to 6 weeks for shipping the CD. My hope is much sooner than the projected window mentioned here. Thank you for your patience and support.

I'm deeply grateful, thankful & excited to welcome novemthree to the Glass Throat Recordings family. An honor to be releasing this incredibly profound and beautifully poignant full length collection, presented here within our traditional deluxe gatefold CD format. Featuring an interior landscape art exclusive to the CD format, drawn by Bluttanzt of the Dolomite Mountains.

After a long and quiet time of reflection, novemthree emerges from the thicket to offer Storms of Memory, their first musical release since their 2014 split-album with Sangre de Muerdago entitled Braided Paths, and their first full length album since the 2012 release of Renewing.

The songs on Storms of Memory document a four-year journey of recording, split between the locales of the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest and the driftless area of the Northern Midwest, with the conceptual roots of the songs originating in a series of live performances that occurred between 2013 and 2018.

On Storms of Memory, Severin Marshall-Dunlavey and Michael Korchonnoff have sought a deeper exploration of novemthree's characteristic blend of acoustic folk songwriting and layered ambient textures, weaving a sonic tapestry of stringed instruments, varied percussion, flutes, woodwinds, and vocal harmonies with the invaluable help of several friends from their musical community.

CEDAR DREAMER "SOLASTALGIA" CD ***A NEW RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE IN THE STORE***

 Initial pressing of 300 now available in the store!

Yielding no connection and not to be confused with former Glass Throat Recording artists Cedar Spirits, I’d like to take a moment and introduce the latest member of the GTR family Alex Freilich and his kindred spirited intent of sacred breath soundscapes under the moniker of Cedar Dreamer. Glass Throat Recordings is honored and deeply grateful to be releasing this monumental work known as Solastalgia exclusively through the CD and cassette formats. Showcasing all original photography courtesy of Alex, here is what Cedar Dreamer had to say regarding the journey of Solastalgia.

"Solastalgia is a new word to describe a familiar sensation: the psychological effects of living through environmental upheaval and loss. Brought into being throughout a period of intense personal anguish, Solastalgia is the darkest and most cohesive Cedar Dreamer offering to date. Slow building loops lead to crescendos of euphoric trance. Dark ambient minimalism interplays with scintillating choral harmonies. The four movements contained herein were created almost entirely by voice and acoustic instruments, without electric guitars or keyboard synths. By returning to the grounding properties of voice and breath, Solastalgia captures an intimate journey along the healing path.

The creation of this work was a bitter but necessary medicine, and it is now offered here in the spirit of the Gift."

-Alex Freilich

instagram.com/cedar.dreamer

releases June 21, 2021

All music and photography by Cedar Dreamer.

Recorded and mixed throughout Winter and Spring MMXX.

Mastered by Sammy Fielding at Ancient Owl Audio.

Layout, packaging and print design by Glass Throat Visions MMXXI.

GLASS THROAT VISIONS HAS A YOUTUBE CHANNEL...

Here is a short film produced by Glass Throat Visions for the Moon Mourning Earth track "Return" taken from the debut self titled 2019 album.

There is now a YouTube channel produced by Glass Throat Visions which offers promotional trailers, short films and live performances for various Glass Throat related content.

Please feel free to subscribe.

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Featuring two Glass Throat Recording artists At the Head of the Woods and Blood of the Black Owl, both of whom shared recently unreleased works for this crucial benefit collection.

Taken from the Orb Weaver Collective's Bandcamp release synopsis:

"We are pleased to reveal to you all our newest endeavor,

Woven Branches: A Musical Benefit for the Yanomami. 

To be released 12/20/2020 

This compilation of songs was curated with the desire to raise awareness to the struggles brought to the Yanomami and Ye'kwana people of the Amazon through continued colonization. Currently 20,000 gold miners are illegally settled and actively mining in Yanomami territories. Not only are they destroying the rainforest sacred to the Yanomami but also thoughtlessly spreading Covid-19, which is devastating to these Indigenous communities. Like many of the epidemic diseases (Xawara) spread over the last several decades, Covid-19 is non-Indigenous and the Yanomami do not have the ability to fight it with the medicines of their forest. They are struggling to obtain the healthcare needed to fight this sickness and are requesting help to not only put pressure on Brazilian officials to withdraw the miners, but to also raise funds in their fight against this disease. 

So we offer some new and potent music to you all including sonic offerings from Blood of the Black Owl, Paul "Che oke ten" Wagner, At the Head of the Woods, Loam and MAW. Each one of these carefully crafted songs reflects deep reverence for the natural world. We humbly offer the medicine of our hearts to express solidarity and raise funds in aiding the Yanomami in their advocacy for a home free of colonial disease. From the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, to the rainforests of the Amazon basin, we stand with you. 

ALL proceeds from this digital release will be offered to the Miners Out, Covid Out campaign as support to the Yanomami and Ye'kwana!"

Please go visit minersoutcovidout.org to sign their petition, share their message or to donate directly!

Thanks folks for taking the time.

-Chet W. Scott

BIG SALE TOMORROW~GTR's 25th ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR~RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS...

 Greetings everyone,

It's been too damn long since I've had anything relevant to share through this informative account. With that said, for anyone out there that actually still subscribes to this blog, please know I'm truly grateful for you and the continued interest and support. I'm finding myself these days mainly using the Instagram accounts and Bandcamp platform for all updates, and in the moment things related to the world of GTR. If interested, please follow and or subscribe to these accounts for quick up to date info.

@glassthroatrecordings

@bloodoftheblackowl

@moonmourningearth

@theelementalchrysalis

It's hard to believe it's been 25 years now since the inception of all things Glass Throat Recordings. I'd like to take a moment and express my deepest appreciation and gratitude towards those few of you, I've had the honor and privilege of working with, not to mention those of you yet to come. Some of these individuals becoming family in the deepest of ways. Truly amazing. I want to thank all the true GTR supporters long standing and new for all the years of interest and downright love towards these soundscapes of mystery. You know who you really are and my love and warmth to you all.

In a nut shell, within this time period, I've watched a certain release launch an entire movement, while others fall into varying self proclaimed top ten lists of "most influential" of their respective yet particular genre specifics. I guess for still maintaining a very strict boutique discography aesthetic and virtually unknown to many, I find these accolades quite incredible!

All that being said, I wanted to mention along with this 25th milestone, throughout the year and certainly into next, I'll be offering some new releases. Some of which I'm still held hostage by the artists, waiting for them to be finished and the proverbial green light given towards an announcement of some kind. It's litterally been a decade or more for three of these upcoming releases. One of which being my own as some of you are aware, and I thank you for your patience regarding that. The Cycle of the Raven Talons debut "A Medicinal Musical" WILL BE RELEASED this year within three different versions too! Deluxe gatefold CD, Deluxe gatefold Cassette and a 25th anniversary Limited Edition Box Den containing both formats previously mentioned and quite similar to that of the Moss and Memory Den from back in 2006.

In other news, yielding no connection and not to be confused with former GTR artists Cedar Spirits, I'd like to take a moment of your time and introduce the latest member of the GTR family Alex Feilich and his kindred spirited intent of sacred breath soundscapes under the moniker of CEDAR DREAMER. Glass Throat Recordings is honored to be releasing on both deluxe gatefold CD and Cassette his monumental work known as "Solastalgia". Release date forthcoming...

Here is what Alex had to say regarding his craft:

"Solastalgia is a new word to describe a familiar sensation: the psychological effects of living through environmental upheaval and loss. Brought into being throughout a period of intense personal anguish, Solastalgia is the darkest and most cohesive Cedar Dreamer offering to date. Slow building loops lead to crescendos of euphoric trance. Dark ambient minimalism interplays with scintillating choral harmonies. The 4 movements contained herein were created almost entirely by voice and acoustic instruments, without electric guitars or keyboard synths. By returning to the grounding properties of voice and breath, Solastalgia captures an intimate journey along the healing path. The creation of this work was a bitter but necessary medicine, and it is now offered here in the spirit of the gift."

~Photography courtesy of Alex Freilich~

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In other news, thanks to the supportive work of Bandcamp and their first Friday of every month waiving of revenue shares throughout the pandemic, I'll be offering another major 24 hour sale tonight at 12:00am PDT!

Handcrafted limited edition items such as the Elemental Chrysalis "Feathers of Lunation" hand Embroidered Pro-CD-R and the Blood of the Black Owl "WARmth" hand branded and sewn hide w/patch 2xCD (pictured below) will be reduced in price from 20-25%!

Also, the Moon Mourning Earth limited cassette release has moved into a second edition available now (pictured below). This time featuring a tip-on photographic element of still-death photography courtesy of Dyralíf (@dyralif) for Glass Throat Visions.

Be well folks and thanks for taking the time to read and not unsubscribing! Please spread the word as there is so much more to come, including some REALLY BIG news regarding forthcoming releases...

Love and warmth,

-Chet W. Scott