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Flying Heart Records Home Page
Your source site for Snow Bud, Tom McFarland, Janice Scroggins and several other Pacific Northwest artists
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Flying Heart Records
4015 NE 12th Ave.
Portland OR 97212
U.S.A.
We're a small independent label featuring original artists from the Pacific Northwest.
Our CDs are now all available for sale or download at CD Baby which is a great site. The CDs
have also been available all along on Amazon which has been very good to us as well. So those
tend to be the most convenient places to get our CDs, though you can always mail-order the old-fashioned way.
Our most recent offering (March, 2010) is a re-issue of Tom McFarland's excellent album, Voodoo Garden. Originally released in 1990, it showcases Tom's talent as a songwriter and performer. The fact that we still get orders for it after twenty years pretty much says it all.
The previous year we re-issued Janice Scroggins Plays Scott Joplin -- remastered by Kevin Nettleingham and with a new graphics package by Caleb Olsen. Janice is great, and her recording of Scott Joplin's rags -- also made over twenty years ago, will you look at the time fly by! -- are unique. Where everyone else seems to like to race through the Maple Leaf Rag, say, it's Janice who adheres to the composer's own clearly stated instruction that "it is never right to play ragtime fast." The result is a revelation. And the slower pieces -- Heaven in Janice's hands!
Nice Napalm Beach photo right after a show at Dante's 1-11-2008 here.
Jan's classic 1989 portrait of Napalm Beach is right here.
Flying Heart Records owner Jan Chciuk-Celt has completed a translation of his father's final book, Z Retingerem do Warszawy i z Powrotem which deals with Operation Salamander (during World War II, in 1944) and the person of Dr. Joseph Retinger . This fascinating account by Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt , written under the pen name Marek Celt, is only available in the Polish original at this time, but we're actively looking to get it published in English. I guess the first step is to get a reputable agent, and that has been a challenge so far. But take a look here at an article by Angie Jabine in the Reed College alumni magazine of September, 2010. It's worth noting that the Chciuk family of my father's generation produced four brothers who all fought in World War II and survived, including ace fighter pilot Wladyslaw Chciuk who took part in the Battle of Britain. And let's not forget the new generation coming up: check out Tommy Celt's band Profcal. For a picture of Prof Cal performing at the Hawthorne Burgerville on February 24th, 2011, click here.
Remembering Stephen "It's All Love" Spyrit
Remembering John P. Higgins who lived from 1933-2011.
Remembering Earl Miller "Corky" Mothershead the artist
last updated December 17th, 2011 by Jan Chciuk-Celt
