{"id":3077,"date":"2025-09-30T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/?page_id=3077"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T01:46:29","slug":"paranormal-adventures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/albums-old\/paranormal-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paranormal Adventures of Uncle Mike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Paranormal Adventures of Uncle Mike<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

MIKE RUD<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BRR-202501LP
BRR-202501CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Track Listing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The Lonely Sea Monster of Pigeon Lake, Alberta (3:59)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Edna and Maurice (4:36)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Jitterbug Waltz (2:56)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Radio Interlude #1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. The UFO Crash at CFB Southport, Manitoba, 1973 (6:54)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Your Neighbourhood Witch (Edmonton, Alberta, 1971) (4:45)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. The Manor House (Streetsville, Ontario, 1979) (7:26)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. None of You Will Leave This Song Alive (3:21)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Radio Interlude #2<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. The Tennessee Waltz (4:56)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Radio Interlude #3<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    A warning to the listener: once heard, this music will forever whisper its furtive truth to your innocent soul. I, Uncle Mike, on this thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord 2024, do swear that the following events all happened to me, at various times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2026 sort of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I refuse to admit which parts do, or do not, map onto \u2018reality,\u2019 to use that squalid little term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What follows is a grim and fantastical travelogue of Canada; the Canada in which I grew up. This account, shaped though it is by fanciful and fevered imagination, nonetheless grasps toward a truth. It is a truth shaped by innumerable Sunday afternoons at the cinema, and in front of television screens, where human shortcomings were re-portrayed as mad scientists, vampires, space aliens, great stalking monsters, and other splendid synecdoche of our greatest hopes and horrors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It is the heart\u2019s truth of an eleven-year-old Canadian boy from the prairies in the 1970s. It is therefore a truth about a place within the self, surpassing what can be accommodated with mere adherence to \u2018facts.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Album Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mike Rud \u2013 Guitar, Guitar Synth, Vocals
    Karl Januska \u2013 Drums
    Yoni Zelnik \u2013 Acoustic Bass
    Chris Andrew \u2013 Piano, Upright Piano, Accordion, Electronic Keyboards, Theremin
    Paul Johnston \u2013 Additional Upright Bass (on Edna and Maurice)
    Cynthia Hamar, Annaletha Boateng \u2013 Backing Vocals
    Stu Jeffries \u2013 Radio announcer interludes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    All music and lyrics copyright Mike Rud (SOCAN) 2022,
    Except Jitterbug Waltz, by Fats Waller (Alfred Publishing)
    And Tennessee Waltz, by Redd Stewart and music by Pee Wee King (Rose Music)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Recorded at
    Studio Prado, Paris, France, May 2022
    James Johnston Studio, Montreal, Quebec, June 2023
    MacEwan University Studio, Edmonton, Alberta, February and December 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Recorded by
    Pierre Dachary, Paris, France
    Paul Johnston, Edmonton, Alberta, Montreal, Quebec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Thanks to Havelock John Tucker, Nelson, British Columbia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Produced by Paul Johnston<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mixed by Paul Johnston<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Assistant Engineers: Kaleb Favell, James Johnston, Leili Rastad, Joshua Bauer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mastered by Guy Hebert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Executive Producer Craig Monk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Bent River Records Team: Kristjan Buckingham, Padraig Buttner-Schnirer, Russell Comrie, Riley Dickinson, Will Drake, Rose Ginther, Ijaz Janmohamed, Paul Johnston, John McMillan, Jussi Pitkanen, Leili Rastad, Xavier Svekla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Special thanks to MacEwan University\u2019s Provost, Dr. Craig Monk, for his ongoing support of Bent River Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Special Thanks also to Selkirk College SCFA Professional Development Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Album Design by Deki Smiljkovic, DESN 231, Typography II, Design, MacEwan University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Design Management by Alex Keays, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    www.mikerud.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/div>\n\n\n\n

    More from Mike Rud<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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    \"\"<\/a>
    MIKE RUD \u2013 <\/a>Salome’s Dance: The Mike Rud Trio Invites Peter Bernstein<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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    MIKE RUD \u2014 Miniatures<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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