Solo: Foxfire | Heavy Meadow | Seventh
One | Broken Silence
Collaborations: Space Dust | Healing | NExT | Silver | Unseen
Rain | Raven |
Jaguar at
Half Moon Lake
Lifescape Series: Music for Healing | Celtic
Passion | Celtic
Hymns |
Dreaming
of Ireland
| Murphy's Irish
Pub
bring dean's music home...
These recordings can be purchased directly from Dean.
$15 will cover the cost of the CD, shipping and handling.
Send a check or money order to: Dean Magraw · 1497 Sargent Ave · St. Paul, MN 55105
Space
Dust
- Dean Magraw's Red Planet
2009 - GoneJazz
Personnel: Dean Magraw: guitar;
Chris Bates, Bass; Jay Epstein, Drums
Cosmonauts Magraw, Bates & Epstein bring sonic samples from Red Planet to the folks back home. A profound journey featuring original compositions & deep-space tributes to Coltrane, Hendrix, and Solomon Linda.
Healing
- Magraw & Kurnow
Sample Track 3: Yesterday's Tears
2009 - New Folk Records
Personnel: Dean Magraw: guitar;
Bruce Kurnow: Stringed Harp, Harmonica.
Old friends Dean Magraw and Bruce Kurnow's dream of a recorded collaboration comes true in stunning fashion, with a lush and glowing tapestry of sound.
NExT - François Corneloup
Sample Track 8: Color Beginning
2008 - Hope Street
Personnel: Francois Corneloup: baritone and soprano saxophones; Dominique Pifarély: violin; Dean Magraw: guitar; Chico Huff: bass; JT Bates: drums.
"A lot of groove-jazz bands attempt this sort of thing, but few pull it off with the intent and intellect on display here, especially considering this band's ability to variegate the colors while keeping to concept. Here's to the meeting of these minds—Parisian to Minneapolisian." - All About Jazz
Foxfire
Sample Track 10 Amazing Grace
2008 - Candyrat Records
Compositions for solo guitar
This collection of solo guitar compositions represents a confluence of dwellings, personalities, and events... represented in sound.
Dean's dynamic compositions range from spacious heartfelt melodies to explosive, spirited flights of passion. His highly original performances reflect his love of music in all its dynamic and tonal splendor as he playfully seduces full spectrum sounds from a limitless palate of wood and steel.
Read a review by Rick Gebhard
Sample Track 2: Hold the Light
Music for Healing
2008 -Target Lifescapes Series
Compositions by Dean Magraw.
Musicians: John Snow (oboe), Peter McGuire (violin), Katja Linfield (cello), Bruce Kurnow (harp), and Dean Magraw (guitar).
"brand new, and stunningly, heart-fillingly beautiful… This music will wind its way into each and every cell of your body, float and resonate inside of you, and gently widen the streambed of your soul. Listen to this music. I can’t think of a better gift to give yourself and the people you love." -Megan Flood
This CD is available in the LifeScapes Kiosk at Target Stores
or ONLINE
at the Lifescapes Website - click here to listen & order
Sample Track 9: Corner House
Silver
Boiled in Lead
2008 - Omnium
Boiled In Lead is: Robin “Adnan” Anders, drums, percussion; Dean Magraw, guitar; Todd Menton vocals, guitar, mandolin, bodhran, whistle; Drew Miller, bass guitar, dulcimer; David Stenshoel, fiddle
Enthusiastic, powerful, technically brilliant, playing a wealth of instruments, electric and acoustic, the band's current lineup and new release Silver sees the return of original lead singer Todd Menton the addition of masterful guitarist Dean Magraw, and loads of fresh material.
Sample Track 7: Eva Arriving
Unseen Rain
Dean Magraw, Jim Anton, and JT Bates
2007 - Candyrat Records
The music collected here was woven into existence in a three-day period of live in the studio recording with my colleagues jim anton and jt bates. The sounds captured reveal the fruits of uncounted hours of ensemble building; stretching and merging the possibilities of strict part-playing with wide open explorations of each melodic moment.
Dissolving the individual "I" in the dynamic liquid of the collective "us", a new entity is unleashed, capable of seeking ever-higher levels of expressions unavailable to the isolated player. You know...... a band.
In other words, thank you from
the bottom of my heart to the true heroic warriors of this enterprise,
jim anton and jt bates. Thanks for: breathing life into these melodies,
searching the honest depths of your emotions, listening, listening, listening
soaring through the process, with humor and grace, and on and on. And
for those who want to join this band, the simple membership requirements
are as follows. . .
Open up. Listen. Be healed.
Read a review by Andrea Canter
Raven
Sample Track 8: Lianna
Dean Magraw and John Williams
2006 - Compass Records
"This loose-limbed Raven soars effortlessly. Chicagoan John Williams, founder member of Solas and a man who's on fluent speaking terms with concertina, accordion, flute, low whistle and piano, brings a zest to both traditional and original tunes, and he's found his spiritual equal in guitarist Dean Magraw, who's a mean draw when it comes to tune writing, too.
There's enough space in between this pair's playing to let the oxygen molecules truly ignite, whether in the company of a Kerry barndance (The Gypsy Princess) or a madcap foray into the unknown (Trippin' Into Eden)."
" What matters most of all, though, is the duo's utter confidence in the music's ability to carve its own identity without a hint of posturing. An inspired pairing." - Siobhán Long, Irish Times
Sample Track 2: Lizanne
Heavy Meadow
2004 - Acoustic Music
Compositions for solo guitar
From joyful steel string frolics to moody nylon string musings, Magraw examines the emotional landscape of the solo guitar.
Sample Track: Circuits
Seventh One
1998 - Red House Records
Available as Kitchen Man
on Acoustic
Music
"...a mature artist creating breathtakingly beautiful music...
At times there is an almost telepathic interplay between the musicians
as they turn the compositions inside out in their attempts to twist every
melodic nuance from them. In the process they create one of the best
instrumental albums of 1998."
-Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
Broken Silence
Sample Track 1: Saturn
1994 - Red House Records
"His acoustic guitar sings and
swings, whispers tenderly and produces the most exciting music that I
have heard in a long time.
A Masterpiece"
(Mittelbayerische
Zeitung, Germany)
"...it's so liquid, lyrical and effortless that it's like listening to a dancer." (Steve Tibbets)
Jaguar at Half Moon Lake
Sample Track 6 Scratch It
1997
on Dancing Hands
"Gorgeous melodies, mesmerizing rhythms." (Dirty Linen)
"Luminous." (New
Music Review)
LIFESCAPES SERIES - available at Target Stores' LifeScapes kiosks or online at the Lifescapes Website. (See links below)
Celtic Passion
Target Lifescapes Series
Dean Magraw & John Williams
The kind of sound that soothes,
awakens,
and sets your mind to soar...
This CD is available in the LifeScapes Kiosk at Target Stores
or ONLINE
at the Lifescapes Website - click here to listen and order
Celtic
Hymns
Sample Track 12 Be Still My Soul / Finlandia
2006 - LifeScapes
Timeless songs of worship delivered in a beautiful Celtic style.
Flutes, Whistles and Bagpipes: Laura MacKenzie; Accordion and Concertina: John Williams; Violin: Jill Olson; Guitars: Dean Magraw; Produced by Dean Magraw. Order from LifeScapes
Dreaming of Ireland
Sample Track 6 Miss Kelly
2005 - LifeScapes
A collection of slow, reflective and haunting music... some traditional Celtic airs, many original compositions by Dean Magraw. This album also features Laura MacKenzie (flute, whistle and pipes) and Jacqueline Ferrier-Ultan (cello). Order from LifeScapes
Murphy's Irish Pub
Sample Track 1: Jackson's
2005 - LifeScapes
(available from Dean Magraw only)
A generous collection of traditional jigs, reels and slip jigs, as well as some of Dean's original compositions. This upbeat album features the musical talents of Martin Hayes (fiddle), John Williams (accordion) and Laura MacKenzie (whistles and flutes).