I am so thankful to have your support and love with my own music, KatsüK.  I would like to turn you onto some other things i am doing that might interest you. 

One group is called, THE SKIN & BONES DRUM CULT.  It is a group of 10 of my favorite musicians, mostly drummers that hold a few shows a year but when we do...oh we do!  It is an improvisational drum orgy with violin, bass, native flutes and vocals.  www.myspace.com/theskinandbonesdrumcult

The other group is called, Dia De Los Muertos.  It is a project created with Shonuff from Spoonfed Tribe incorporating digital beats with a Dead Can Dance feel.  A sensual and emotive electronic journey into our beautiful sexual center as well the overcoming of our fear of the illusion of death.   www.myspace.com/diadelosmuertosmusic

When you have a moment, please check em out.  I hope it finds you well. 

we are changing over our email list so if you are on the old one, get on the new one here and stay in the loop. love ya!!

So there's this thing that if you go and check out our song, JUST In CasE on the NEW just by clicking the link: 

http://www.kdge.com/cc-common/artist_submission/player.html?art=159835

...It will tally up hits and then if we get up there in the higher hights of hits, we will be played on the airwaves.  Please take a quick moment and help us spread some Conscious Music worldwide.  Much Love and Thanks!

Rocky Mountain High

Back from Colorado, folk-rock singer-songwriter Daniel Katsük has newfound energy and … new bandmates.

By CAROLINE COLLIER

When local folk-rocker Daniel Katsük decamped for Boulder, Colo., a year ago, he was looking forward to a new start. After adjusting to the thin air, the young veteran singer-songwriter assembled a full band and set out to do something he'd always wanted: to fully orchestrate his mostly acoustic compositions. The result, he said, was "intoxicating."
Unfortunately, though, things started to fall apart. "We were all going in different directions," he said. "I was tired of struggling to make it work, so I ended up disbanding the group. I was ready to do it on my own.

"Colorado was a time of very powerful lessons," he continued. "In the last year and a half, I've been through dramatic experiences with bands. It's very stressful. … I didn't want to go down that path again."

Compared to Boulder-Denver, North Texas looks like local-music nirvana, he said, noting that so many great touring bands go through Colorado's capital that most non-mainstream local bands have a hard time drawing big crowds. Fort Worth, on the other hand, he said, is a "great music scene, with great bands and great people. … This is a very genuine place."

He moved back about a year ago. "This is my home," said Katsük, who grew up here and still has family in the area. "I call it the 'Magnet-plex' – I keep trying to leave, but I keep getting pulled back."

When he was in Boulder, Katsük was always coming back here, not just to play but to lay down tracks on his recently released third album. He recorded Out in the Wind both here and in Colorado.

He happened to be in town visiting on New Year's Eve – specifically, at the Cultural District's Blue Grotto – when one of his favorite bands of local musicians was playing. Little did Katsük know that Sally Majestic was also somewhat in flux. The trio had been broken up for nearly a year before reuniting a few months before the New Year's gig. Guitarist Scott Vernon said that he, bassist P.J. Fry, and drummer Tim Cowdin just needed a little break. "We didn't want to quit playing with each other," he said. "We love each other so much."

The three guys and Katsük, who had known one another from the scene, got to talking. The foursome, Katsük said, found "instant chemistry in more ways than music. … It felt like I was hanging out with people I've known since high school."

Almost as soon as Katsük got re-settled here, the trio began learning his music – his catalog weighs in at about 200 original compositions. The band also has written two originals and is looking to add more. Now performing as KatsüK, the quartet already has played a number of regional shows and is booked through June.

Before hooking up with Sally Majestic, Katsük had finished about 90 percent of Out in the Wind, recorded in Fort Worth at Infinite Possibility Studios with best friend and producer Evan Jones, who also produced Katsük's previous two albums, Remembrance and A Leaf's Journey. Both albums are credited to the singer-songwriter's former nom de plume, A-Hummin' Acoustical Acupuncture.

Out in the Wind is 80 minutes of 17 songs, a majority centered on Katsük's acoustic guitar and occasionally effects-laden voice. Covering topics such as love, war, and celebration, Out in the Wind, Katsük said, "represented me going out on my own and doing this. It represents a time in my life where I was leaving the past behind, giving away stones and baggage: jealousy, anger, bitterness, ego, the things keeping us from being who we are."

The album is fleshed out with backline drumming by producer Jones and percussion by Jonathan Irwin. Katsük also gets help on harmony vocals from girlfriend Jordan Franz and famous Austinite Patrice Pike. Three local stalwarts – guitarist Darrin Kobetich, bassist Marcus Lawyer, and violinist Steve Huber – provide instrumental accompaniments.

Vernon, Fry, and Cowdin play on one track, "Tabernacle," a song about "being in the fire and burning out all the things you have been carrying," said Katsük, whose spirituality has led him into many sweat lodges.

Sally Majestic, Katsük said, "really blew it up." Katsük and company plan on recording an album in the fall back at Jones' studio. "I've grown and grown and grown," Katsük said. "But I couldn't be happier with where I am right now."

KatsüK
Out In The Wind Lyrics


1. Oasis
(Instrumental)



2. Children Of The Boom

You gave it your all
You made your final stance
The world is deaf and barren
No need for advance.
So you're paralyzed, by things that didn't fly
If only you knew.
Children of the boom don't waiver
Complacency is never safer
For some they say, "the world will never change"
Oh you know its not, it's not too late

Carrying your own weight
Burying the old ways
Settled in the world's ways
Children of the boom, hey

What type of world will you leave your son?
And seven generations?
You've only just, you've just begun
There's so much more that's to be done
To be done
To be done
To be done

Resurrect yourself
Resurrect yourself
Resurrect yourself
Resurrect yourself

Carrying your own weight
Burying the old ways
Behind this white picket fence hides your grave
Buried in your old age
Settled in the world's ways
Here has come a new wave
Children of the new age

What type of world will you leave your son?
And seven generations?
You've only just, you've just begun
There's so much more that's to be done
To be done
To be done
To be done…

Resurrect yourself
Resurrect yourself
Resurrect yourself
Resurrect yourself




3. Course Of Empire

Here escaped
Born under your name
Fell into the sum
A course that's already run

Save yourself
You a crumbling empire
The walls you've made are of cast stones
And none of them you own.

Here awake
Storming these gates
For all your world undone
A course into the sun

Save yourself
You a crumbling empire
These walls you've made are of cast stones
And none of them you own.



4. Undivided Day

"Will you listen?
Offering invitation
Walk with this Me this way"

I don't have time for this,
I must still carry on
I did my best to listen it's you not me who's gone!

"You wont listen without My intervention
On your knees you babe."

Crumbled in your hands
Ember of an arrogance
Settled in a lie
With spooned out eyes

A defeated soldier, lies
In a bed desire made, inner war
A foolish martyr dies
A coward sleep and others pain,
Fore all are torn
Oh all are torn,
All are torn

Humbled in your hands
Tearing all wounds will someday mend
Truth will come to host
Tearing pulled together sewn

Keep these shoulders high
Fortify the choice made for outer war
A Highest Order arrives
A giant leap and time will say how you soared
Oh how you soared,
Oh how you soared,
How you soared

There's no need of defense of a lofty kingdom
So ever un-assailed
Pull your Spirit in from a past perception
Undivided Day
Undivided Way

Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace


5. Evergreen

I'm born upon this bird's back
With hearts intertwined they're Evergreen
But clouds though, they often turn black
But honed a light wont lose its meaning
Even in full view of a full moon
Even in full view of a full moon

We're dancing over these mountain tops
Time, irrelevant, seems to have all been stopped
But how much further still away?
Oh, you know it really don't matter anyway

Even in full view of a full moon, there is no fooling you
Even in full view of a waning moon

So many leaves upon this tree are lives you count in waiting
Oh in bloom, oh Evergreen its all within your making
So many leaves upon this tree are smiles you count in waking
Oh in bloom oh Evergreen its all within your making

Even in full view of a full moon, there is no fooling you
Even in full view of a waning moon



6. Wonder Years

Yeah yeah yeah…
Well, I wish there's something I could say
Well I know these times can be real hard,
God, I know they are
Fore all these doors they seem to close
Oh I know
But mornings haze replaced by new days

Oh you are never really alone, even on your own
Hold on you have never been alone, even on your own

I wish there's something I could do,
Helpless my hands are tied, slippery reasons why
This don't make no sense,
Cause I just hopped off that fence
I wish I never made a bargain with you,
You could have told me before you threw

Oh you are never really alone, even on your own
Hold on you have never been alone, even on your own
Hold on you have never been alone, yeah even on your own

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on!!!

Oh you are never really alone yeah, even on your own
Yeah yeah yeah…



7. Roadside Assistance

She thinks herself so better than anyone else
But you know I've seen her cry
Walkin' tall is alright unless you slip and you fall
But I betchoo knew that right?
There's no soles on your shoes whatever happened to you?
You're runnin' out of time
You gotta get there fast without usin' no gas
Stuck on the roadside

Doesn't she know that her engine's over heatin'
And her tires are begin to be seepin', air that is
Problem solver of every situation, except her own
Control of it all, why are ya seekin'?
I hope you never find it
I know you'll never find it

She thinks herself so better than anyone else,
Even though you lost your smile
Talking tall is alright if you're talking to walls,
But you know we aint that high
There's always something to say even if doesn't relate,
She always thinks she's right
And all the things that you do, seem to speak less of you
You know I'd lose that pride

Doesn't she know that her engine's over heatin'
And her tires are begin to be seepin', air that is
Problem solver of every situation, except her own
Control of it all why re ya seekin'?
I hope ya never find it
I know you'll never find it

If I listen to you would you listen to me?
Try not to get so confused by all the monetary stuff
Because you cant take it with you,
It's only gonna bind you,
Blind you,
Mind you to drive another way back from the lap
Is where you lost your map

Don't you know that your engine's over heatin'
And your tires are beginin' to be seepin', air that is
Problem solver of every situation, except your own
Control of it all why are ya seekin'
I know you'll never find it
I know you'll never find it
I know you'll never find shit
I know you'll never find it


8. Crazy

Where did you come from you left long ago?
Fore how I gave up I meant to be alone
Fore now you're here again and heavy are these rains
You're not the one I knew you're floodin' me away
Was it you I heard?…
I'm goin' crazy

And how I remember us kissing in the rain
Your gentle touch relays the soft and autumn showers
Fore how I've dried up wishing for those days
Oh I'm goin' crazy, I'm still callin' out your name
Was it you?
Was it her?
Was it you, I thought I heard?
Fore I'm goin' crazy
I'm goin' crazy, love love

Cumulous clouds have brought me down
Well, I cant see another way out the rain
Oh these angels would you hear me out?
Oh hey was was it you say?
Was it you?
Was it her?
Was it you I thought I heard?
I'm goin' crazy
Im goin crazy, love love

Where did you come from you left me long ago?
Fore how I gave up I meant to be alone.


9. Glory-Us

And so we're gathered here today, with hearts full of wander
These eyes re filled with fire that are marching on your shore
Oh the sound of lyres tides that draw so near
Remind us of our union
We're crossing over the ocean
Drawing closer in Heaven

Oh and you, sweet morning dew
A rose unfolds a pure embrace
And there's so few, who know this narrow way
Oh in the heart of Loves sweet grace
How would I ever know this Love without you
How would I ever know this Love without you

Glory-Us
Glory-Us
Glory-Us
Glory Is Us, Is Us

How would I ever know this Love without you
How would I ever know this Love without you
How would I ever know this Love without you
How would I ever know this Love without you



10. A Tale Of Two Lovers

The day awakes, the runnin' moon, a splinter coal, a fiery hewn
A test of faith, a solid rock, tis not the day that will find you lost
A fool of art tis make it so, I'd rather sing than swim in gold
A plum in bloom, a lovers breast and with our lips said, aye

La lye lye lye la lye lye lye la la la lye la lye la lye lye lye la lye lye lye la la la lye la lye

A curious lot we must have seemed
A float and dancing thru the streets
We spoke no words and none were spoke
Mystery lies until evoked
And on this day and in this noon,
The sun rose high and devoured the moon
And then we sang and those who knew and with their lips said, aye

La lye lye lye la lye lye lye la la la lye la lye la lye lye lye la lye lye lye la la la lye la lye

A fortune made in love untold a story save to spry the old
To lovers move in ghostly sheathes forever sung in memory
In blowing gales a ruffled skirt
Love has no bounds deep in the earth
Unfettered breeze upon this cheek and with our lips say, aye

La lye lye lye la lye lye lye la la la lye la lye la lye lye lye la lye lye lye la la la lye la lye
La lye lye lye la lye lye lye la la la lye la lye la lye lye lye la lye lye lye la la la lye la lye



11. Tabernacle

Finally left behind
And though you're soul is lighted
Of all your burdening stones
And so they drift away
Don't you go a stray
You know they're all you've known

Beside you there, thrown up, up in the air

And so you start a new
Unsure, but surely Guided
You know you're up to You
And there's no words to say
Cause you know you've said them all anyway
You've turn them all to notes
Beside you there, thrown up, up in the air

Empowered
Empowered
Empowered


And so you take back,
You before you broke your back
Under weight of all these stones
And there's no words to say
Oh, you gave them all away
Unto these burning stones

Beside you there, thrown up, up in the air
Empowered
Empowered
Empowered



12. JUST In CasE

Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan
Carlyle route for their pipeline
Fore all said "NO, not through our lands!"
2 out of 3 down
Third caught in a crossfire

Just in case you didn't know

An unelected President
A family wealth by Nazi gold
911 breakfast with terrorists
Commercial planes without windows

Just in case you didn't know
Just in case you didn't know

Fire has never brought any steel building down
9 out of 19 are still alive
A false flag a war in your name
Hundreds of thousands of people have died!

Just in case you didn't know
Just in case you didn't know
Just in case you didn't know
Just in case you didn't know

Think for yourself
Seek out all you want
Find out what you will
Thy will be done
Think for yourself
Seek out all you want
Do what you will
Thy will be done

Know you're walking on stolen lands
The genocide of native man
Bury my heart at wounded knee
We're written out of history
The "winners" writing history
We're still repeating history
We're still repeating his-story…



13. A Blade Of Grass

History lays behind me
A road of broken cobblestones
Simply for the picking
Every stone a story told

This blade of grass will crack this road

Sparkling, made of diamonds
Years and tears took to build
Hard pressed by the ancients
To follow in their footsteps

This blade of grass will crack this road
This blade of grass will crack this road
It grows higher, it grows higher, it grows higher and higher
Til' that blade of grass will crack this road
This blade of grass will crack this road


14. Trinity
(Instrumental)



15. Terra

I come here to recollect,
What was stolen, by my own neglect
Fore time has made us strangers,
Do you know me, or have I been gone too long?
Oh they followed me, I tried to hide
You see them in this face?
Oh forgive me, Terra I, don't know what to say

Fill me with your Love, I know that you are always dear

I've come here to reconnect
Is it too late? I know it can't be yet
The stars are growing dimmer and the highways, the coming of the ants.
Oh embracing all your Love, the city falls away
Oh can you hear me Terra I, what was it you say?

Fill me with your Love
I know that you are always here
Though I rarely was
Tell me you wont disappear



16. Willow

And though your hair is hangin' low
Like the branches of a willow tree,
That's combed by the wind
And all of us are feeling hollow
And we're lost under your shadows dreaming
Oh in your love we would follow
Teach this as only you
Heed this rising up to you
And help out though it was for you
Teach us rising up to you

Let down your hair
To climb unto your bows
Both of us weathered
With fire to seek you out
And come down way down in fortunes that come full circle

Teach this as only you
Heed this rising up to you
And help out though it was for you
Teach us rising up to you

Let down your hair
To climb unto your bows
Both of us weathered
With fire to seek you out
And come down way down in fortunes that come full circle

La llorona, weeping will-low and behold
With arms stretched to hold

Teach this as only you
Heed this rising up to you
And help out though it was for you
Teach this rising up to you
And help out though it was for you
And teach this though it was for you



17. Out In The Wind

Oh, just one more kiss,
Upon your sweet, sweet lips
Fore oh this Soul I want to hold you so close

Been so afraid to let you go
So much so I've lost control
Floating out in the wind

Oh just one more day
Before we go our ways
I know this Soul it gave its wealth
Thinking gold in hell
Upon the hour of reckoning

And so I have to let you go
My friend of so many days
Somewhere out in the wind
Been so afraid to let you go
So much so I've lost my Soul
Somewhere out in the wind

And so I have to let you go
Been so afraid to change
And with you this love will go
I pray that you could only know
Soaring out in the wind




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Moving, growing, standing still to see the residual. Inertia and her soft delicate finger tips lightly wisp by with the air of never stopping, in fact she never has and will. with this Ray, she quickly throws her name away free to be the Wind. I have longed to know this Truth, yet have picked up her name on the cold pavement right where the hill begins to climb in front of me. it is a strange thing when the road heading down the hill leads you into Heaven and further from hell. What has happened to me? My bag has become full of so many stones, yet i carry them with a ferocity. The "real world" calls like an infant in need of care yet it remeins perfectly well to hold its own. and in fact the more i pick it up the more i need to be carried by it. fuck this bag of stones! i throw them into the river because i have seen the raven soar, talans empty but for air. as the bag lands with a crash and the golden stones scatter themselves like broken dreams and disappointments i see the gold fade into concrete washed away as dust in the stream. these were man made and they were not even real!? i have been carrying dust which would make me its spouse. the world has had its laugh. it feels secure in securing with love, but love does not secure, it only is. it is the only thing that is truly free. fear though, would try but its chains are made of silk. How easy it is to be caught up in all of this. how easy. the path so energetic and wide at first grows narrower and narrower with each passing boulder, but yet we run into them and blame the stone for bruising our knee...for bruising our Heart. Yes, it might take more energy to climb then to move straight with faith. for faith would ask of us to weave and bob. it knows the path is made by the vigilent and flexible. we have settled in our cities and have become afraid of the Wilderness. We have hoveled in our homes with the lie of having everything. we have surrounded our selves with liars so as to not see our own. we have given up because we are followers to the worlds dispair. truly the wind that touches all things knows. Truly the sun who sees all things knows. surely, the space in between truly knows!! TELL ME!!! I am ready to know!!! I have been surrounding myself with matter. How this matters and that matters. Nothing matters. I understand that now. Nothing, matters. It will all be pulled apart by the Air, by the Invisible Factor fore it can not in all its "need" cling forever fore soon its hands will give into sand and into the Sea and it it will be happily Home. Spark, behold thyself in mine eye that i may feel your warmth within my thoughts. As we have placed the stars in the Heavens and forgotten our Destiny, lift me in to Heaven with the same Velocity. Nothing matters yet all things factor. Your wings do not fly themsleves and feet do not walk with out will. Together, we shall change the world. This was your decision and intention laid out long ago. a Treasure awaiting under stones and dust. A map inscribed with fire on the inner eylid. remember, darkness only hinders an impatient seeker. When in truth there is no darkness and the map lay visible awaiting you like a Ferryman or Lover

How romantic the 60's seem to have been.  How all the hippie children now wish they could have been part of a such a powerful past movement.  well, wake up!!!  you are in a movement awaiting you, yet you live in the past, in front of your light boxes watching endless televised bullshit of other people's lives, writing blogs, myspacing, veggiing, smoking, whatever.  These are your days.  These are our days, we have awakened to a dream.  where we are more concerned with who wins the next american idol than who was killed today in a senseless war that has nothing to do with peace, but aqcuisition.  your governments war is a war of revenge and acquisition of material nothingness.  i  am well aware i am a product of all this, as well partly slave to it, even a hypocrite for voicing it on an isolating tool such as the "world wide internet"  in which we have never been closer yet more alone.  the 60's are over the children of the boom have left it up to you.  to the best and worst of their efforts this is what you have to deal with.  yes, many gave in, yes many persist.  where are you now, what have you learned from them?  are we so desynsetized that we cant immobilize?  what are you so afraid of?  not being cool?  are you worried about how people will see you.  fuck em.  love and allow em to hate you.  hate me if it makes you feel better.  love me and it will truly make you feel better.  are you awaiting a hero, a messenger, a leader worth following.  well, know that you are worth following, but first you have to follow your Self without self importance.  you are nothing, yet you are God.  God is nothing yet, Everything.  We are doing this to ourselves.  There is no one to blame but us.  Change your inner you, and the outer you will follow.  Support your brothers and sisters, stand behind them in truth.  try organic food, think for yourself, revolt, just feel the freedom of it, have sex knowing it is sacred, feel the difference.  are you fucking your way through life or are you making love?  or are you just getting fucked?  you get what you give.  try giving what your missing. plant a tree, become soveriegn.  know you what being sovereign is?  well, find out, that is being sovereign.  Know Thyself and Know God.  Love and Allow.  Put down your dark arrows.  This blog is a cherry bomb in the toilet of your "high" school.  You're not too cool for school!!!

After many years as AAA, on my own or accompanied by my very talented freinds, I have decided to move on from the name A-hummin' Acoustical Acupuncture (AAA).  It is still a wondrous description of what is this Music and it will remain so, but I have chosen from this moment on to go solely by Katsuk. 

It will remain the same music you know and love, nothing will have changed though a name.  Like clothes, we grow out of or also grow into, so do we a name.  And so it is just time to leave this one behind and take on my own as it is who I am, as is this Music. 

I am so blessed to have had so much support from you, my freinds and family...as well, just knowing that this music has touched you in your special place (hehe) has given me such a sweet joy, I can't even begin to describe.  These upcoming shows will be solely myself, occasionally accompanied my very talented friends.  I will be going into the recording studio this August and will have a new album for you very soon.  So much love and hope to see ya out.  Thank you indoobadibly!!!  See ya around!!!

Whirled Pease,

Katsuk

Wow, what a wondrously crazy weekend. We are still recovering from all of you. We were so happy to come down there as a full band and play for you. We missed yall Funkytownians mucho mucho. Well, we hope you inJoyed us as much as we inJoyed you. We will see you around very soon. Thank you as well to Jordan Franz, Sleeplab, Darrin Kobetich and Villian Vanguard for opening up the nights. And Orion, Jonathon, Tripp, Steve Huber and Dre for throwing down! SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSIC!!!

Be Well,

Brandon, Charley, Chris, Daniel and Precious
AAA