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 ...
Draft 2/4/2026 - NOT FOR PUBLIC USE BEFORE - 10/4/2026 In the 1980s and '90s Cape Town music and 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 allowing for some wonderful dynamics. (c) SONGWRIGHTS PUBLISHERS There were fourteen tracks in all, featuring such performers by, Joseph Gabriels, Lynn Julius, Aviva Pelham, ...