Don Mularz, Releases Hard Times Teaser

Don Mularz is back with Hard Times the 5th teaser and the final track from Side 1 of the upcoming album Florida Street

The track features

Don Mularz on Acoustic guitar and vocals

Beth Cohen on Harmony vocal

Don envisioned this track as something that Neil Young and Nicollet Larson would have done on the album Comes A Time.

Personally I think its a stunning track with great harmonies as Beth and Don complement one another.

Don’t forget to check out some of Don’s other work with Dark Horse Flyer and Split Decision

Beth Cohen is known for her work with Boston and formerly of Barry Gibb, Barbra Streisand, Pink, and others

music you didn’t know you would love”

Dark Horse Flyer online

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Solo 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

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PeacockSunrise Records Merch Available

PeacockSunrise Unisex Logo T-Shirt

Comfortable, casual and loose fitting, our heavyweight dark color t-shirt will quickly become one of your favorites. Made from 100% cotton, it’s unisex and wears well on anyone and everyone. We’ve double-needle stitched the bottom and sleeve hems for extra durability. Select a design from our marketplace or customize it to make it uniquely yours!
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Congratulations to Sun King Rising

Congratulations to Sun King Rising who has received two ISSA finalist nominations!

“music you didn’t know you would love”

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PeacockSunrise Records Releases First Digital Sampler

We are thrilled to unveil our very first PeacockSunrise Records recording (various) artist sampler called WATERCOLORS, aptly named for the vivid picture each track paints on this release. Featuring 3 upcoming and never before released gems plus 6 previously released popular tracks. The album is free of charge for a limited time. Just ad a 0 for $value at check out.

1. Steve Bonino – Fuchsia Heaven 06:15
2. Allison vonBuelow – Perfect Love 03:47
3. Blake Carpenter – All I Am Asking 05:07
4. Sheverb – Puttamulettonit 03:40
5. Andy John Bradford – The Spider And The Fly 05:40
6. Gayle Ellett & The Electromags – The Many Moods of Morgan (Featuring Brian Chapman) 05:03
7. Don Mularz – Twenty One 04:37
8. Elfin Bow – Mother Said 03:19
9. Sun King Rising – Anchorless 05:48

With that said…on behalf of myself and all our artists we hope you enjoy this release.
Cheers Nick

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Don Mularz of Dark Horse Flyer Signs with PeacockSunrise Records

Photo by Brad Perkins

We are beyond thrilled to announce the addition of Florida based singer-songwriter and guitarist Don Mularz to the PeacockSunrise family for future releases including his upcoming solo album Florida Street, release date forthcoming. 

In a statement from Don, “My first contact with Nick Katona of Melodic Revolution/PeacockSunrise Records was when he stumbled on Dark Horse Flyer’s first album, “Breakaway” and declared it the best classic rock album in 30 years! What’s not to love about that? Since then he’s been a tireless supporter of the music both on air and in person. I don’t think my first solo album could find a better home than PeacockSunrise Records and I’m truly stoked to be joining the Melodic Revolution/Peacock Sunrise family of artists.”

About Don Mularz
Don is Dark Horse Flyer’s primary songwriter and singer, and an integral part of the band’s three-guitar frontline. His work as a composer and a guitarist combines the earthiness of blues and rock n’ roll with an accent of jazz sophistication and the slinkiness of Latin-based rhythms. 

For Don music is all about that direct emotional connection with the listener. “A song doesn’t have to be strictly autobiographical, but it either needs to be perceived to be so, or, even better perhaps, strike a chord in the listener who recognizes their own story in it,” he says. “That’s what makes a song valid.”

Don further states, “As passionate and proud as I am of Dark Horse Flyer’s albums Breakaway and Hotel Paradise, they only tell half the story. When the Pandemic put the brakes on the next DHF album, “Tao Of Blues”, I took a long look back at all the acoustic guitar driven music I’ve created over the years and felt it was past time to give that work it’s due. (or past time to tell the rest of my story) With these ten songs on Florida Street, I get to flex my acoustic guitar muscles and play all the instruments with just a few guest appearances by some of the DHF family. Hopefully the result is as “acoustifying” as I intended!”

pre-master sample from the debut album


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
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 – Radio Hearts (1992) Blue Water Records – Cassette, CD, & Digital
Split Decision – Borderline & Mission Blues (1992) Blue Water Records – 7″ single

Don Mularz Online
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Don Mularz – Bandcamp – https://donmularz.bandcamp.com/music
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Dark Horse Flyer – Website – https://darkhorseflyer.com/

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Sun King Rising Wishes You a Happy New Year and Reveals Plans for 2023.

Hi to all! As we enter the new year, I’d like to express my appreciation to you—my friends, fans, and supporters—for our big year in 2022. My debut album, Delta Tales, continued to do well throughout the year. The single, Free Will in China Blue (intended initially as a digital bonus track for Delta Tales) did so well that the record company released a second, enhanced version of the CD to accommodate it.

The big news in 2022 was that we released the album Signs & Wonders in October. In this brief time, it has been graced with love from fans and garnered massive critical acclaim in the media. To celebrate its impending release, we staged a fabulous launch party in my hometown of New Castle, PA. Ace and I discussed the songs in front of friends and supporters.

The new single, No. 6 Magnolia Avenue, has been doing well. Our two videos, directed by Dante Ludovici, for the songs Free Will In China Blue and No. 6 Magnolia Avenue, have been honored with multiple nominations and awards from film festivals around the world.

Digital streaming of SKR is getting stronger and stronger. SKR songs have more than one million total streams across platforms, with most (approximately 940,000) on Spotify. This has all been made possible by you!

The coming year promises to be one of progress for SKR. We will be promoting Signs & Wonders heavily. We are planning live performances of various types. We are developing a music video for the next single, One More Story to Tell. Of course, I am also busy writing new songs for a future SKR release. My SKR team is a devoted, hard-working lot who encourage me to continue making music we hope the fans will love.

John Blangero, New Year’s Eve, 2022

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The Critics Love Signs & Wonders!

Signs & Wonders encapsulates much of the reason why critics are so impressed with Sun King Rising’s career (myself included). He isn’t a one-trick pony, but essentially as much of a renaissance man as the indie rock community can hope to celebrate in an era as tumultuous as the present. FULL REVIEW

When consumed in its entirety (as was mandated by the man behind the music himself), all of the songs comprising this album form a patchwork of personal statements and commentarial poetry you would never find anywhere else in the world. FULL REVIEW.

There’s something new to discover with every listen the blanket of melodies and poetic revelations in Signs & Wondersis granted, and while I’m usually not the biggest fan of concept albums because of the camp and excess they frequently contain, this is a solid offering that doesn’t have any room for such nonsense in its material…FULL REVIEW

I don’t believe there’s going to be a single critic who hears this record and says SKR isn’t deserving of endless praise for the originality of the piece in general. He couldn’t have made Signs & Wonders any more insular and intimate yet still accessible to us, and that earns him a lot of respect in my book.  FULL REVIEW.

With Spotify streams of his 2020 debut album, “Delta Tales” approaching 800K, and youtube views of his award-winning “Free Will in China Blue” video approaching 40K, Blangero looks to continue the momentum with his new album. FULL REVIEW.

He wants us to get a taste of the passion he’s sewing into this material on all fronts, starting of course with the actual presence of the music when it’s played at a moderate volume on a good pair of speakers (headphone speakers to be precise, as the liner notes recommend), and that just isn’t true of the many artists who would seek to dethrone him from his perch in the hierarchy of underground heavyweights this fall. FULL REVIEW.

Sun King Rising Releases the Short Film, No. 6 Magnolia Avenue. Today at 8 PM EST

Based on the Hit Single of the Same Title from His New 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.

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.

Fans can enjoy the video here on the special Sun King Rising will webpage

https://www.sunkingrising.com/6premiere

Sun King Rising will give away a free Signs & Wonders CD to the first 50 viewers who subscribe to the Sun King Rising blog “The Lowdown

Signs & Wonders Sessions
John Blangero – Piano, Keys, Lead Vocals, Orchestral Arrangements 
George Perilli – Drums on all tracks except 4 and 10 
Roger Humphreys – Drums 4 
George Elliott – Bass Guitar on all tracks 
Willie Ross – Guitar 1 2,3 4.5,8 
Steve Schuffert – Guitar 6,7 8 9 
Ace Acker – Acoustic Guitar 3 
Fred Delu – Electric Piano 4 
Background Vocal Arrangements by 
Stevee Wellons and Ace Acker 

Background Singers: 
Stevee Wellons – All tracks but 10 
Joy Brown – 1,3,4,5,7,8, 
Bernice Wilkerson – 1,3,4,5,7,8 
Pete Hewlett – 6,9 
Ace – 2,6,9 
Raloh Guzzi – Horn Arrangements 
Ralph Guzzi, Eric Defade, Kevin McManus – Horn Section 
Kennv Blake – Saxophone 4

Studio Credits
Engineered by David Granati 
Recorded at Maplewood Studio, Ambridge, PA 
Mixed and Mastered by Brian Foraker 
Produced by Ace Acker 

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Signs and Wonders Review