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NOT FOR PUBLICATION until after 7/7/26  A little while back (in January 2025) the vinyl LP of Expressions , Pacific Express' final album was re-issued, and fans were elated. From the original album release. Photo Gavin Furlonger  (c) Songwrights Publishers   There are however some that wanted the album in digital format. Now we are re-issuing the full album, re-mastered for digital streaming (headphone friendly) and download. Producer Tully McCully took on the musically very talented ensemble in his Spaced Out Sounds Studios in upper Cape Town, South Africa in 1978. Although better known for rock and pop productions he relished the chance to work with some of the Cape's top jazz musicians. Following the departure of Chris Schilder and Issy Ariefdien from the group earlier that year, the line up was -  Paul Abrahams - Bass guitar Jack Momple - Drums and percussion Jonathan Butler - Vocals and guitar Tony Cedras - Keyboards, trumpet and string arrangements Zayn Adams -...

 It is a real surprise that Tully McCully, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer of countless artists has never released a Tully solo album - until now! The new record is titled Comedy Tragedy. Tully is the frontman and bass player of McCully Workshop, the producer of Lesley Rae Dowling and Crocodile Harris, (and many others) who have topped the charts in his homeland over the last thirty years. He is known for his entertaining (even theatrical) live presence on stage. He is a talented mimic and possesses wonderful comedic timing.  On this collection he plays all but one instrument and does all the male vocals, besides his work behind the desk of his famous Spaced Out Sound Studios in Cape Town, South Africa. Recently he has been recording introspective music, notably his progrock collaboration with keyboard wizard Gordon Mackay, and his folk pop releases under the name of Jaspers's Acolytes. Anyone who is a serious contemporary music fan from 1970s and 80s wil...

South African songstress Lesley Rae Dowling sent shock waves through the local pop music business with her stunningly individual style of vocal delivery when she came on the scene in the early 1980s.  Her producer Tully McCully wrote Grips of Emotion for her and it hit the charts in January 1982. The follow-up release, her debut album revealed that she was also a serious songwriter. Her song Spaniard was the second single to garner heavy rotation leading to the first album going gold not long afterwards. Visual for the new release featuring Lesley from the time of her debut releases .   Since then Lesley has released about a dozen albums mostly in her home country but she also has releases in Australia and the Benelux. Last month Tully was going through his archive and stumbled on a multi-track tape containing a song she recorded that never made it onto any of Lesley's main album releases and never released digitally, so not available for streaming or download. The track, als...

Hamburg, March 2026   Tony Cox is not only a very talented guitar player, he also shines as an arranger. In this collection he looks for inspiration from some of the iconic South African popular songs from recent years. Essentially an instrumental album though Tony does add a little vocal accompaniment to three of the songs. The album title, is an Afrikaans word that refers to food one might take with you on the road for a journey - this is indeed the case with this collection. Always tongue in cheek, Tony Cox with his picnic basket (c) Songwrights Publishers Here is a review from the time of the original album release. Review: Richard Haslop 7 April 2014 The music of South Africa’s consistently brilliant fingerstyle guitarist Tony Cox has always been influenced by his geographical roots, full of mainly instrumental statements about where he’s from and who he is. But quite a lot of what he has played – as well, it must be said, as anybody anywhere – is South Afr...

In the 1980s and '90s Cape Town classical music recording engineer and sound system enthusiast, the late Donald Graham, released several dozen records on vinyl and cassette tape, on his GSE Claremont Records label. One of his most popular releases was titled, Beautiful Cape Town - Fine Music, "Voices". The compilation set out to showcase Cape Town orchestras and artists from live recordings Donald had made as well as some he acquired the rights to from the 1970's. He was a specialist in live recordings and doing the editing on his analogue tapes and later his digital recordings.  The artist performances on this compilation are as he heard and captured on his microphones and are not enhanced, in other words completely analog acoustic recordings allowing for some wonderful dynamics. (c) SONGWRIGHTS PUBLISHERS There were fourteen tracks in all, featuring such performers by,  Joseph Gabriels,   Lynn Julius,  Aviva Pelham,  Andrea Catzel,  Sally Presa...

Seasoned musicians Tully McCully and Gordon Mackay, have come up with a powerful package of three new songs for release shortly. These they add to their very creative musical story as a duo on the 14th of November 2025. Artwork Laura McCullagh (c) Songwrights Publishers Going under the title - The Quest, they offer a trilogy of yet again instrumentally complex tracks still featuring Tully's esoteric "stream of consciousness, fantasy" vocal text. As before Gordon's virtuoso electric keyboard playing is up front. This is not programmed playing, this is performance recording! Tully and Gordon were part of the McCully Workshop live line-up and Gordon also played on the band's Infinity  release and contributed two of his compositions to the album.  Since then the duo have workshopped and released two albums and a handful of single releases. The last release was a single in April this year.  The duo again followed their usual creative process, with Tully sending Gordon ...