The Message (available June 29 via Mack Avenue Records) swells with an abundance of strength, soul and astounding musicianship. Its a vision of fusion and funk, breakbeats and bass-interpreted cello suites with a little help from friends like rapper/beatboxer Doug E. Fresh and trumpeter Mark Isham. Backed by a young versatile band and a collection of tunes written in the midst of a tumultuous tour of Europe,

Im very excited about our work on this album. I wanted to include some of my band members contributions and the result is an album that is funky, melodic, musical, contemporary and fresh with a rich multi-genre influence, Clarke commented. The guys in this band are consummate young musicians with musical spirits that are very old. The line-up he refers to is pianist Beka Gochiashivili, drummer Mike Mitchell and keyboardist Cameron Graves.

The band entered ICP Studios in Belgium and recorded an abundance of material. Clarke returned to his home in Los Angeles with the tapes and began to tinker. Once I got the raw material, I fleshed it out. My ability is to orchestrate and arrange. Im very good with taking anything and turning it into something.

Much of the material from their Paris adventure is collected on this album but the affair opens with a homegrown homage to several soulful great friends that Clarke has lost in the last few years including George Duke, Al Jarreau, Tom Petty, Leon Ndugu Chancler and Prince. Clarke slaps out a funky riff for And Ya Know Were Missing You while renowned beatboxer Doug E. Fresh lays down an intrepid beat. A rare pairing that seems instinctual upon first listen.

The Message is unmistakably a Stanley Clarke record.

Track list
And Ya Know We're Missing You
After the Cosmic Rain / Dance of the Planetary Prince
The Rugged Truth
Combat Continuum
The Message
Lost in a World
Alternative Facts
Bach Cello Suite 1 Prelude
The Legend of the Abbas and the Sacred Talisman
Enzo's Theme
To Be Alive

Thought-provoking drama from John Singleton. Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a young African-American, is sent to live with his father in South Central Los Angeles. Despite his earnest attempts to stay out of trouble, he and his friends are drawn into local gang violence. Eventually he finds that he must choose between a life surrounded by crime and his desire to leave the neighbourhood and get a college education.

Action thriller starring Jason Statham. Frank Martin (Statham) is the best at what he does: transporting dangerous or illegal goods with no questions asked. He lives by his three strict rules - never change the deal, never ask for names and never open the package - until one job changes his outlook on life forever. Transporting his latest shipment, he notices that the package appears to be moving. Breaking rule number three Frank opens the bag only to find a beautiful young woman bound and gagged. Can Frank stick to rule number one or will his conscience get the better of him?

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The Age of Petroleum which began with sudden and dramatic power on August 27, 1859, when the first commercial oil well was completed near Titusville, Pennsylvania, is just a century old. The story of oil and of the industrial and social transformations it has effected during the past one hundred years is a rewarding one in itself. But J. Stanley Clark has provided an extra insight into this great development by tracing also the course of production techniques from rank waste to conservation. It is a story of the quick grab for mineral riches; of unpredictable results in times when geology had as yet few or no applications; of wild-flowing wells and insufficient storage and pipe line facilities; of consolidations and mergers and small and large facilities; of attempts, fumbling at first, precise and effective later, to get the most out of the hugh subterranean storehouse of oil and natural gas. In short, it is the record of the greatest bonanza of them all. For a country which has grown accustomed to high-speed individual transportation, Mr. Clark's reconstruction of certain events will seem almost incredible. As late as 1920, the oil industry and its twin, the motor car industry, literally had no place to go. Public roads were deplorably inadequate-so much so that oil-field trucks had to give way to mules in moving equipment to well locations. But the slow triumph of road construction and the fast accelerating development of other fields have given the country what it may now take for granted-as long as it has access to a well-managed petroleum resource, at home and abroad. J. Stanley Clark, a civilian employee of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, is a historian in his spare time. His interests lie in industrial as well as in general history, and his Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin.