Unusual Tales, by Mystery School

Unusual Tales

by Mystery School

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To the best of my knowledge, Jon recorded these instrumental albums, made CDs and sold them only at the Pike Place Public Market at his artist booth. They have never been available in stores or on the internet

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1.	The Wild Side 02:54	info	buy track
2.	Waltz Dream 03:02	info	buy track
3.	Asia On Foot 03:01	info	buy track
4.	All the Nonesense Inside 03:24	info	buy track
5.	An Ocean In Tibet 06:47	info	buy track
6.	Riding The Underground Trains 04:28	info	buy track
7.	What The Elders Said 02:34	info	buy track
8.	At The Center of Time 10:32	info	buy track
9.	As The Crow Flies 01:46	info	buy track
10.	Mermaids In A Net 03:20	info	buy track
11.	Waltz At World's End 02:46	info	buy track
12.	Continental Drift 02:44	info	buy track
13.	The Opposite of Being 02:36	info	buy track
14.	Shore Leave 02:05	info	buy track
15.	Ocean of Dreams 04:03	info	buy track
16.	Mister Sun 02:30	info	buy track
17.	Entering The Alien City 05:08	info	buy track
18.	Learning To Speak A Forgotten Tounge 03:57	info	buy track
19.	A Walk In Space 03:49	info	buy track
20.	Desert Nite 03:09	info	buy track
21.	On An Elephant's Back 03:24	info	buy track

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Jon recorded these instrumental albums, made CDs and sold them only at the Pike Place Public Market at his artist booth. They have never been available in stores or on the internet. We are now taking them world-wide. There are five CDs which we will be releasing over the next few months - we will start off with Unusual Tales. Tales is a compilation taken from four Strongbow cassettes, What It Takes (1990), World Without Words (1992), Music For Intense Cities (1993), Short Stories (1994) and Dream Waltz (1995).

About UNUSUAL TALES:

In 1992 and 1993 Jon Strongbow released his first instrumental albums: "WORLD WITHOUT WORDS" and "MUSIC FOR INTENSE CITIES," both of which contain the seeds for what later would become Mystery School. Both these albums contain Tibetan chants from the Shakya Monastery woven into some of the music.

In 1994 Jon Strongbow embarked on a project now known as "SHORT STORIES," where 20 musical themes are compressed to three minutes or less. This was accomplished with the aid of the sensational Martin Sutlovich on fretless bass and the extraordinary Patrick Donicht on drums and engineering.

In 1995 this same group of artists recorded "DREAM WALTZ" which contains 10 larger instrumental pieces by Jon Strongbow. This album was created immediately prior to the founding of MYSTERY SCHOOL and has many of the same musicians performing on it.

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released February 17, 2023

All sales go to Jon's family. More about Jon can be found at jonstrongbow.com. View an interview with Jon here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGLJmwo3Gsw

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Jon Strongbow Seattle, Washington

Jon Strongbow was a nearly-hidden Pacific Northwest wonder, with six albums of his songs and another six albums of his instrumental music, most with his band Mystery School. He was an author and a graphic artist with multiple books and art prints which he sold at the Pike Place Market, where he was a community fixture. Books and CDs available here. All sales go to his family. ... more

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