Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Today I am typing out the lyrics to our Listen to the Heartbeat album which we released in 2015. There are 8 songs on the album. We recorded the album in our home studio in Chatham, Ontario and had it mixed and mastered in Vancouver, BC after we moved to Burnaby.

My favourite song on the album is Holy is the Lamb, which Cyndie composed. You can watch a music video for the song on our Myztery YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/QFzQZh60VtU?si=TGRuTV_vfFBk5jo0

 We are in the holy season of Lent. It is a great time to go to the Sacrament of Confession, to fast, to pray, to help the poor. 

New Mobile-Friendly Website for Tempus Fugit Coming!

We will have a new mobile-friendly website of our album Tempus Fugit created. There are four songs on the album: Death, Judgement, Hell and Heaven. Each song is 15 minutes long. It is based on the near-death experience that Cyndie had when she was 13. Hell is based on the near-hell experience I had one month prior to my ordination as a Catholic priest. I went through three days of intense sorrow, despair and the temptation to commit suicide.

Rob Queen has finished one song for our upcoming album. We have decided to reduce the number of songs on the album from 17 to 10. Instead of releasing a double album, we will have a single vinyl album made by DMA Discs, based in BC and Ontario. I have recorded electric rhythm guitar for a couple of songs and our lead guitarist, Chris Rupert, has completed one song. Miles Hill, our bass player, has completed one song.

Have a great day!

 

Myztery TikTok Live for 30 Minutes

Hello! Happy Ash Wednesday! Last night I did a 30 minute TikTok Live, playing three songs on the mandolin and acoustic guitar. I played Touch the Sky, Open Your Heart and Who Do You Say I Am?  

Cyndie operated our camera. I will do a TikTok Live once a week for 30 minutes. I will also do a 10 minute TikTok video that I will upload as well, once a week.

We received another request for a Myztery concert in Asia! So far, Asia is leading in the polls for Myztery concert requests! We need to get our passports :) Today I plan to record electric rhythm guitar and lead vocals for a couple of our songs for our upcoming album. 

There is a new bookstore in New Westminster, Collected Treasures, that will be selling our Myztery CDs as well as our books! Here is their website: https://collectedtreasures.ca  Mystical Rose Productions, which is our record label and production company, is being registered as a partner with Apple. We plan to get a MacBook Pro for our recording studio.

Have a great day and a spiritually fruitful Lenten season!

 

Recording Guitar and Lead Vocals

Hello! Today I will be recording rhythm electric guitar and lead vocals for a couple of Myztery songs. Miles Hill, our bass player, will also mix and master our upcoming album. We will spend 15 months recording this album. We started in March, so the finish date will be around May of 2026. We will release it as vinyl album, probably a double disc album, through DMA Discs, a totally Canadian company based both in BC and Toronto, Ontario. 

The photo today was taken by Tom Hawkins for our 2010 Cyber Superstar photoshoot. Tom will be doing the photoshoot for our upcoming album as well. Our drummer, Rob Queen, did a great job recording on the opening track of our album. One of the songs on the album is a song I wrote back around 1983! For some reason, I never got around to recording it, even though I released a number of solo albums as well as five Myztery albums.

Have a great day!

 

Recording 12-String Acoustic Guitar

Today I will be recording 12-string acoustic guitar for one of the songs for our upcoming album. Rob Queen (drums) and I will be recording this Friday for a couple of songs, with Rob playing drums and I will be on electric guitar (rhythm). Today I pick up my Ibanez Gio guitar from Neil Douglas Guitar Shop in New Westminster. Mark changed my strings for me. I bought a second pair of strings in case I break another string.

Our monitor foam has been ordered from the Foam Shop in Burnaby and should arrive soon. They will raise our monitors so they are at ear level for me when I record and listen to the mix. Miles Hill will be mixing and mastering our upcoming album. Yesterday I began writing a new ROCK song! It will be on a future ROCK album by Myztery. 

Have a great day!

 

Radical Shifts Available as an ebook!

 

Today we added my memoir, Radical Shifts, to our online Myztery store as an ebook for $7. We will soon add Cyndie's memoir, Heaven ROCKS! as well. We are in the process of having Myztery Coasters made by our friend Leo. They are made of slate and will feature our Myztery logo on them. We will add them to our store when they are ready.

Tomorrow I am purchasing some foam as stands for our new studio monitors for our Mystical Rose Studio setup. We are getting them from the Foam Shop in Burnaby. They will custom design them according to the dimensions of our monitors. 

Miles Hill has completed the bass for one of our singles, which will be on a future album. I will record with Rob Queen (drums) on February 28th, for a couple of songs. I will record rhythm electric guitar. 

Thanks for checking in!

Setting Up Our Recording Studio

Yesterday we purchased some Yorkville compact studio monitors from Long & McQuade in Vancouver. Our thanks to Chris Jaggers, who helped us select them! Today I will be setting up our recording studio in our home. We need to find a new place to play with our drummer, Rob Queen, as the room he had beside a church in Maple Ridge is no longer available for him soon.

We live in a small condo in Burnaby, so our large studio monitors took up too much space in our studio. Our new ones are about half the size of our previous ones. I sold our old pair to a guy coming out of Long & McQuade in Vancouver, so he was happy and I was happy! Our thanks to Chris Jaggers of Long & McQuade for his help in selecting the monitors.

I recently had to get a new phone because my old phone battery died and there was a problem with the charging port. The new phone has a far superior microphone, so our TikTok Live concerts sound really good now!

Have a great day! 🎸⭐🟉🔷🌍☮💌