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“When you speak of Roses and Thorns, the paradox within one beautiful flower. The marriage of a male and female the crown of thorns with Jesus and Mary Magdalene being known as the rose I thought that all of us at some time in our live experience a sacred marriage of sorts. I truly wanted there to be, in the garden, a place for union.
In all of us there is a love. In all of us there is another piece, a mirror piece. Yes within, of course you have to fine your own twin flame within your being, but there is someone, and someone it is more than one person that you go into sacred marriage with and I explore it in different songs on this record especially Marys of the Sea. Which is about her journey out of Jerusalem and fleeing and once she gets to the south of France she takes on a ministry herself. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is something that I had herd about but hadn’t read until I was much older. My mother, a minister’s wife read it for the first time very recently and she looked up with tears streaming down her face and she took my hands in hers, and her name is Mary, and she said “Darling. Why? Oh Why? Has this been kept from me my whole life I’m not someone who isn’t exposed to literature particularly Christian literature, my mother was a literature major and she said yet this is something that has not been available” then I said “Well I think that is the key question. Why two thousand years later would the Gospel of Mary Magdalene be hidden from the masses. Now to me that is the greatest story never told and I explore this greatest story never told in Marys of the Sea.”

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“There’s one called Agent Orange. Naturally, if we’re talking about the boy/girl matrix, there’s going to be a war zone at some point in our story…and we go into Agent Orange. If we’re gonna have a war, we have to bring warfare in. I decided to make him a bodybuilder because that memory has to transmute also – the skin. To become like tango, the idea of tang, or the idea or orangina, an orange muscle secret agent who we long…that song, Agent Orange is the one o’clock cabaret moment, where you’re had a couple of amarettos on the rock, and there’s just a sadness. But you know that sadness when you know your relationship is over and you’re still alive? You know you’re not dead. You’ve got all your body parts. You’re all there. You’ve got a date. He’s got a new love…(long dreamy pause)..and you go on with it.”

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” The message at the core of AATS is about taking control, and at times it is about wrestling that control back from another person’s definition of sin. This is incontrovertible in the fearless rock track Strong Black Vine, which parallels bondage with the edicts of religion and politics. There is no mistaking the message in the accompanying visualette, in which images of Christian churches, Voodoo, Tarot cards and divination run alongside images of the recent war in Iraq, from soliders in the street to burning oil.”– Polari Magazine, 5/9/09

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