We won the Silver Award for our music video, No. 6 Magnolia Avenue, at the International Singer Songwriters Association 2023 ceremony! Thank you very much to all who voted for us and to ISSA. Special kudos to Dante Ludovici who directed the video, and Ace Acker who produced the record. And thanks to my record company, PeacockSunrise Records, and it’s President, Nick Katona, for believing in me.
Oct 28, 2022, Sun King Rising releases the Short Film, No. 6 Magnolia Avenue based on the Hit Single of the same title from his latest album Signs & Wonders produced and directed by Dante Ludovici, No. 6 Magnolia Avenue is a literal film interpretation of the song’s optimistic, uplifting lyric. It is the story of an unknown, down-and-out musician who attains acclaim and stardom after encountering the beautiful “Girl in China Blue” at a bar gig.
Ludovici’s production ably captures all the emotion, pathos, and humor inherent in the recording. Many of the artist’s New Castle, Pennsylvania friends and family form the colorful cast of characters.
Sun King Rising is the musical moniker and alter-ego of John Blangero, who lives in Port Isabel, Texas. By night, Blangero is Sun King Rising. By day, he is a world-renowned genetic research scientist and professor at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.
Watch No. 6 Magnolia Here
Meghan Greenwood, a popular Pittsburgh choreographer/dancer, plays his love interest in the film. Ludovici also featured her in his first Sun King Rising film production, “Free Will in China Blue.” She has retained her “girl in China Blue” identity in the second production.
In addition to the mostly local Newcastle cast, Ludovici also utilizes multiple Newcastle and nearby Poland, Ohio locations to significant effect.
Blangero wrote the song, and producer Ace Acker completed it with a who’s who lineup of Pittsburgh players and singers at David Granati’s Maplewood Studio in Ambridge, PA. Granati engineered Sun King Rising’s first album, Delta Tales. as well.
Listen to Signs & Wonders Here
Sun King Rising Online
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This is the last song I wrote for this album. I think the opening lines “Is this some Cosmic joke, another year’s gone up in smoke, the days like pages torn out of a book” sum up the shared experience of most of us during the pandemic. It’s only human to stumble and fall, but also human to pick ourselves up and keep walking. I do.
Discography
Don Mularz – Florida Street (2023) PeacockSunrise Records – CD, LP, & Digital
Don Mularz – Buddha On My Christmas Tree – Spirit of December 7, Songs of Peace Love & Hope (2017) Melodic Revolution Records – Digital
Dark Horse Flyer Discography
Troubleshooting Pandora’s Box – Soldier’s Song – featuring Dark Horse Flyer (2022) Digital
Dark Horse Flyer – Hotel Paradise (2016) Florida Street Records – CD, LP, & Digital
Dark Horse Flyer – Breakaway (2015) Florida Street Records – CD, LP, & Digital
Split Decision Discography
Split Decision – Radio Hearts (1992) Blue Water Records – Cassette, CD, & Digital
Split Decision – Borderline & Mission Blues (1992) Blue Water Records – 7″ single
Don Mularz online
Don Mularz – Facebook – https://bit.ly/3IsGis2
Don Mularz – Bandcamp – https://donmularz.bandcamp.com/music
PeacockSunrise Records Online
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I Thought I’d put something up a little different. Here is a rough song demo called Lonely Road that didn’t make the cut for my Delta Tales album back in 2020. It didn’t pass the Ace test! But here is a little glimpse of how the sausage gets made and how sometimes it ends up on the floor!
– Sun King Rising
Discography
Signs & Wonder (2022) CD, Digital & Streaming
Delta Tales Expanded Edition (2021) CD, Digital & Streaming
Delta Tales (2020) CD, Digital & Streaming
Singles
It Must Be Christmas ~ Single (20212) Digital & Streaming
Number. 6 Magnolia Ave ~ Single (2021) Digital & Streaming
Down The Delta Road ~ Single (2021) Digital & Streaming
Free Will In China Blue ~ Single (2021) Digital & Streaming
Milkweed and Thistle ~ Single (2020) Digital& Streaming
Compilations
PROG PRESENTS: Ripples In Time, Before Then Was Now! (2022) Digital Album
Sands of Time: A Music Revolution 2006/2021 (2021) Digital Album
A Year In The Revolution (2020) Digital Album
Sun King Rising Online
Website: https://www.sunkingrising.com
Bandcamp: https://sunkingrising.bandcamp.com
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PSR Profile: https://peacocksunriserecords.com/project/sun-king-rising/
PeacockSunrise Records Online
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Here are the 22 guest musicians (in no particular order) that play on the up-coming Gayle Ellett & The Electromags album, titled: “𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨” (due out later this year):
Issei Takami – BARAKA – Japan
Shin Ichikawa – BARAKA – Japan
Thierry Passan – Minimum Vital – France
Marc Ceccotti – Edhels – Monaco
Frederic L’Epee – Shylock – France
Lucio Calegari – Electric Swan – Italy
German Vergara – Aisles – Chile
Juan Pablo – Aisles – Chile
Alvarez Ortega Bianchi – Los Pencales – Argentina
Paul Richards – California Guitar Trio – USA
Alfonso Rodenas – Blue Dolphins – USA
Carl Weingaren – Delay Tactics – USA
Walter Whitney – Delay Tactics – USA
David Udell – Delay Tactics – USA
Dudley Taft – USA
Barry Cleveland – USA
Joee Corso – USA
Aquiles Magaña – USA
Brian Chapman – USA
Jim Crawford – USA
Ted Price – USA
Bill Polits – USA
Discography
Friends (TBA 2023) CD, Digital & Streaming
Shiny Side Up (2022) CD, Digital & Streaming
Gayle Ellett & The Electromags Online
Website: https://gayleellettandtheelectromags.com/
PeacockSunrise: https://peacocksunriserecords.com/project/gayle-ellett-the-electromags/
Bandcamp: https://gayleelletttheelectromags.bandcamp.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjIqvAjRKyXU65DSfKnJJbw
PeacockSunrise Records Online
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