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Turning up for you white heart Delirium at a blind spot Playing with fire is a risky thing You bring the bureau, bring the gasoline When we wake up from the dream When we come down from the high We'll know it's never gonna last last Why do the bright as the fire's gotta burn out so fast?
When the fever...
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And, you know, they were on the cover of Maximum Ink Music Magazine back in 2012.
And Jeff Funk.
That's like 15 years ago.
You know, that's right.
And Anna Wang, she was a UW student back then.
And Jeff Funk from Funk's Pub, if you remember that live music venue, he was the bassist.
And the drummer was Nikki Sund.
And Nikki is going to be here tonight.
playing live from the Mad City with Mona Augustine.
I think she's out getting food right now, so it's kind
of too bad you couldn't hear that.
But
unless she's listening, well, if so, hi, Nikki.
So that's pretty cool.
I like to dry fast.
That's like the ultimate breakup song, I think, if I've ever heard one.
And before that...
Well, it's another song for Anna Wayne.
It was actually from her sophomore album, Not the Same Band, and that was called When the Fever Breaks.
That's a fun song from her album, In Your Head.
And Anna Wayne, we're looking for new music from you, so I hope you're out there somewhere listening.
We have a great show tonight.
I'm Rocker here with Jane in the studio.
and lots of good things happening tonight.
Just after the bottom of the hour tonight, Mad Moto Farm.
They're back at it again.
Halloween Bash 2026 is coming up October 9th and 10th.
My calendar said Aaron Weber.
I was expecting a real estate
conversation.
Well, Aaron Weber, the Aaron Weber group, happens to be sponsors of this great event.
And Aaron Weber is out, I don't know, like hunting Sasquatches or something somewhere out in the woods, but he's sending along John Stanislawski.
who plays in one of the bands.
He's one of the organizers of Halloween Bash at Mad Motel Farm.
Have you heard of Mad Motel Farm before?
Yes, I
have.
We've talked about this
last year.
Last year, you know, yeah.
We build that institutional memory right here on Max Inc Radio.
Then Marsden, Joe Marsden, we premiered some of his songs the last couple of weeks.
He's going to be in here and talk about his new album and the release that's coming up.
And then Mona Augustine.
live from the Mad City and this is going to be great.
It's a trio and Mona is from Haiti and he's up here in Madison.
He has an incredible story and some great songs and they have a three piece band here full drum set.
We're going to have a lot of fun.
So and some new music coming up after 7 p.m.
the double dip.
We're going to feature adult book club.
That's a new band with some new music.
and a CD release coming out.
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because you can follow along with us with the song.
All right, well, we got to keep moving on here.
Ryan, let's see, how do I pronounce
this?
Ryan Bizarre, down homegrown.
He's based out in Gencio, Illinois.
That's kind of Southwest or Upper Northwest Illinois.
And he's going to be playing at the day after Christmas, 1226 PJ's pub in Keeler, Wisconsin, Northeast of Dubuque.
You know, he's not from Wisconsin, but this is regional.
So we're going to play it right here.
It's a little
Uh, down, uh, down home grown.
Yeah.
If the co-op considers 100 miles of the capital local, then this guy counts for sure.
There you go.
Ryan Bazzari, down home grown.
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Yeah, she puts her own twist on Grandma's whiskey apple pie.
Best you'll ever try.
She likes good hard work.
She ain't afraid to break a sweat or get a little dirt all over her.
But she cleans up good.
Just look at her.
She was raised in the heartland.
It ain't hard to tell.
It's more than her dad and mom had on earth.
Well, she's free as the wind.
Every stranger is a friend.
And her roots run deep as far as roots go.
She's down hard.
She's down with a night on the town, but she'd rather sink her toes in a Greek and just hang out with me in my guitar as a long hot day.
Now that's what I'm talking about.
She's down
That is Frog March, brand new music from the Night Painters.
I love
Frog, so that's a great representation right
there.
Respect.
We premiered that last week right here on Maxing Radio from their new album, Good Thinking.
And the Madison Indie Rockers, they're going to be releasing a new album at the Burr Oak coming up on November 7th.
And so that's the Night Painters.
kind of some new music.
That's pretty cool.
They sent it into us.
And, you know, you can send us in your MP3s and we'll consider them to play on Maxink Radio.
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Because if you go to Maxink Radio, right?
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So to pull up what the song is, you can see the song and who's playing it.
Well, if you don't men attack, nothing shows up.
So we need those men attacks.
Make sure you put them in there.
We open that one up with.
Ryan Bazzari, of course, who sent in.
And after that was Little Marsh Overflow.
Now that's one out of the closet, Jane.
That was called Cherokee and their jam band.
They're from the Door County Madison area.
And they were popular around 2010, 2017.
Featured Kai Anderson on drums, who was a JGO air personality and Mark Webber.
He found running sound at events like Atwood Fest.
And right now, we're going to move to another band that's actually, I think they're supposed to be playing this Mad Moto Fest.
Coming after the break, John Stanislausky from the Mad Motto Farm, Halloween Bash, Joe Marston coming up next hour and Mona Augustine is live from the Mad City at 8.
Right now, let's check out some trembling giant.
They'll be Saturday, October 10th at the Mill in Paoli, Mount Horror Base Band right here.
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But that was idle great song by where's the key?
They're gonna be playing October 10th at Mad Motto Farms Halloween bash.
That's coming up really quick.
My name is rocker who gene in the studio tonight
There's someone else here too.
I think
there is you know what coming up October 9th and 10th the mad farm moto and music Halloween bash takes over Brooklyn, Wisconsin for two packed days of live music art camping costumes and Halloween chaos
Friday features live bands, comedy, and a new late-night multi-artist rave party while Saturday turns up the volume with an all-day rock and metal lineup running into the early morning.
And there's also food, art vendors, and an immersive art experience.
Costumes are highly encouraged.
So Halloween is coming, people.
Joining us tonight to tell us how this whole thing comes together is local musician and Aaron Weber Group Realtor, John Stanislawski.
John.
Welcome to Max Inc Radio.
Oh, thank you so much for having me.
It's great to be here.
Now, is being a realtor at the air and a Weber group.
Is that is that like being in a band?
You know, I think that's very apt.
Yes.
I mean, you know, hanging around with Aaron, it'd be crazy like a band backstage all the time.
What what instrument do you think he'd be on?
Oh,
boy.
He's
got
to be a bass player.
He
holds it down.
He definitely holds it down.
But you know how the band is.
number of different personalities and, you know, that everybody brings something a little bit to the table.
So yeah, I think that's an apt analogy.
I mean, you know, the drummer tells you when to dance, but the bass player tells you
how.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
Just monkeys dancing for air.
John, you're a musician and one of the organizers of Mad Motel Farms, Halloween Bash.
Now, tell us a little about yourself and how you got started playing music.
Well, originally from the Stevens Point area, lived for some time in the South, South Carolina and Nashville and made our way back to Wisconsin end of 2022.
I've been a musician for a long time, started with piano.
I'll say my dad is also still a weekend warrior,
plays on the
weekends up in the Stevens Point areas and spent some time playing with him.
Turn it over to guitar was doing some songwriting in Nashville.
And then when I got back to Wisconsin, met, met a great group of people, uh, will included, who is the, uh, the entrepreneur behind mad, uh, mad farm motto and music.
And, uh, and here we are.
Nice.
So what, what, what role did your parents play in, in your music operating?
Were they very supportive of you becoming a musician?
Yeah.
I don't remember, uh,
much where music wasn't going on in the background.
I mean, cleaning days, these were the early
days of, you know, the
Sundays when I was a kid, they'd put on the old CD player, the six CD
changer.
What was
playing?
We had everything, a lot of George Strait, actually.
A lot of country music.
My mom was a big Rolling Stones fan, so a lot of early Rolling Stones.
I would say I am, you know, some folks are a little...
apprehensive about their parents' musical tastes, you know?
And I wasn't.
I may be straight for a little while, but I listened to a lot of the stuff they did.
Yeah, you and me both, buddy.
Yeah, you know.
It's interesting and it doesn't feel like just nostalgia.
I really like the music.
Now you play in a band, you said Hot Dish.
Yes, playing a country band here, kind of a country rock and roll band.
We keep people moving up tempo, energetic stuff.
And yeah, we've been playing together for about three years.
I have some gigs coming up in October as well.
What's your next gig?
Next gig is at.
Gamma Ray bar on October 22nd, which is going to be fun.
And then we have a gig in Milwaukee the night after that.
So scooting around a little bit.
Nice.
Getting around Wisconsin.
Yeah.
How'd you get involved with Mad Farm Moto and music and what's the story behind the Halloween bash?
Sure.
So, well, Will Jackson, like I said, it's actually his property and the Mad Farm Moto thing.
Will is, if you've met him, I
I lovingly refer to him as kind of a Renaissance redneck.
He's a fantastic musician, excellent artist, and he's really good at motocross.
And actually, hence the name, Mad Farm Motto, there's big motocross track there with
big
hills.
And it's kind of a, it's a very interesting, fun, vibrant place.
But.
Will and I work together on the aeronweber group team.
And it turns out I also live in Oregon, which is just about three or four miles away from Will's house in Brooklyn, which is south of town, about 15, 20 minutes.
How many years has this Halloween bash going on?
I
believe this is the third.
The third.
The third, yes.
I think we've covered every one.
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
Talk about the mad moto farm.
I mean,
You just said it was located in Brooklyn, Wisconsin, and there's a barn there.
You said there's a motocross track.
Yes, there is.
Tell us a little bit about this venue.
Yeah, you pull off of Highway 14, just like I said, about 14, 15 minutes south of Madison, go through kind of a lane of trees, and then it opens up to a...
Big red barn that
has to burn
party barn.
Absolutely.
You can tell from the outside.
Usually when you pull in and there's an event happening, there's definitely music either.
Being performed live in the barn or there's just music pumping out of the barn.
I don't know how he does it, but he rigs that thing up.
Wow.
Beautiful corn fields surround.
It's really it feels private, but you can see, you know.
out across the field.
It feels rural, but there's so much vibrancy with art.
Everything in the barn is tactically, you know, you can touch it.
There's lots of spray paint, lots of black light, lots of, I don't know, plant life.
It's a strange
place.
It does not
look like a farm barn necessarily.
It truly feels like a venue.
Wow.
Sounds fun.
That's happening Friday and Saturday, October 9th and 10th.
You've got two very different days this year.
Friday has live music, comedy and late night rave, while Saturday becomes a huge rock and metal day.
Talk about what we're going to find happening at the Mad Motel Farm next weekend.
What's the late night rave about?
So that's a new addition this year,
it
sounds like.
Again, I mentioned lots of neon and black lights that are
already, yes, exactly
right.
They are already present.
So the scene is already set for it.
Imagine a light show sort of on steroids in a barn.
Sounds
like an awesome time.
And I will say it is a...
Will and Mad Farm are really good at creating sort of a diversity of experience.
A lot of it is rock music, but also just the inclusion of like an EDM rave sort of situation.
I've played this event before as kind of a country artist.
So it's really a mixed bag of genres and it really creates a place where everybody feels like you can dance.
Well, I see, I see a couple bands that we know of right here on Maxing Gradios skin tones.
The skin tones are their legends around here.
The trem, the trembling giant, which you just heard.
And where is the key, which we just heard as well.
Right.
And honestly, a bunch of bands that I hadn't heard that I got to look up.
And it's quite a lineup.
And where can we find the lineup online?
So the best place to go is we have a Facebook event page and also Instagram, Mad Farm Moto.
You can look it up there.
You'll find that on the Instagram page where you also find a poster too that has a QR code if you want to get tickets and see the full lineup.
And yeah.
So now music.
is only part of this thing.
You've got art vendors, Ben's dark art and immersive art experience from quick trippy camping food and costumes.
What are you trying to create, you know, beyond the music festival here?
Sure.
So I kind of mentioned it earlier, but like a, yeah, a diversity of sort of artistic.
forms and mediums, um, Ben's dark art.
That's right.
Seeing,
seeing people actually create in front of you, you know, as a different experience than going, you know, to a market or an art show, not saying better
or worse,
but it's, but seeing people actually create in real time.
I think that's what, what mad farm does really well is have people.
doing things that they're obviously talented and passionate about in real time.
Is that part of the immersive, the immersive part of the art experiences?
That you're watching them create this?
Correct.
Wow, that's pretty cool.
Yeah, I think it, um, yeah, I think the spirit of it, uh, all is, is sort of, uh, creativity and, um, and just creating a space for people to, uh, to, to.
Have a good time.
I guess have a good time.
I know that sounds right, but it's really fun.
It's a beautiful venue.
There's going to be camping if you want.
It's BY own, bring your own beverages,
whatever that may be.
How
much does it
cost?
$20 covers both days.
Oh,
that's a steal.
Yeah, that's pretty good because there's a lot of bands.
Yeah, there are a lot of
things to do three stages.
Forty nine artists total.
So
wow, there's
going to be a lot going on.
It's actually pretty huge.
Yeah, it's a lot of scheduling.
It is.
That's about 40 cents per band.
That's right.
We pay in subway coupons.
I hope that's OK.
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
But.
But yeah, and the comedians, poets and spoken word stuff will starts.
We did the music starts around well, the festivities start at 11 a.m.
both days.
So it's a full day is worth
and music starts 5 p.m.
on Friday, right?
Yeah.
And then music all day Saturday.
That's right.
Until late until the night
as long
as it goes.
If I if I
know there's people standing there probably still jamming.
That's right.
If I know Will Jackson, he'll he'll.
He'll call us the next day and tell us he was up till at least, you know, three or four.
Oh, that early?
Yeah, that early.
I
don't
know.
He's a bed early.
I was thinking maybe a five.
Yeah, sure.
The Halloween bash 2026 is October 9th and 10th at Mad Farm Motel and Music in Brooklyn, Wisconsin.
John, where should people go for tickets, updates, schedules and everything they need to know?
Just Facebook or do you have a website to
Facebook and Instagram right now or the
best place to go?
Yep.
Yep.
Well, thank you so much for taking the time and hanging out with us tonight in the Max Inc radio studio here and tell an Aaron Weber, you know, we were wondering.
what color socks he's wearing while he's hunting Sasquatch because that's what he's doing.
Yeah, he's he's up north hunting Sasquatch.
The hard part with Aaron is usually his socks are mismatched too.
So it
could
be about 10 or 15 different colors.
We
need a picture.
Tell me every time he comes in, we get a picture of his socks and we post it online for everyone to see but not tonight.
What kind of socks are you
wearing?
Gosh, I'm ashamed to say I have short socks, short black socks on there.
Not very exciting.
I will say
that's right.
As far as getting in touch or getting ticket information, feel free to reach out to the Aaron Weber group as well.
We're on Instagram and Facebook.
We're a real estate group in town, work for Compass, and we have a good time.
Nice, John Stanislauski from the Aaron Weber Group and Mad Moto Farm Halloween Bash.
Thank you so much for coming down.
We have a song from one of the bands that's going to be playing the skin tones.
The H-Bomb is from their debut album, Rock Scene Problem.
That's from 1998.
Guitarist Pete Rest, he also played in Mind Oks with Butto and the H-Bomb is about addressing humanity's reoccurring tendency to destroy one another and the environment in the name of religion.
Nationalism or other ideologies.
Catch them October 10th, Halloween Bash 2026 Mad Farm Motel.
This is the skin tones in the H-bomb!
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Now then, Dimitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb.
The bomb, Dimitri.
The hydrogen bomb.
I bet you didn't expect that one.
The skin tones.
Boy, I haven't heard that song in a long time.
That was from their album, Rock Scene Problem.
My name is Rocker.
You're here with me and Jane.
She's in the studio right now in the control room, and we are doing lots of local music.
Tonight we still have...
Marsden coming up next.
Marsden coming up next after 730 and then Mona Augustine is here live from the Mad City.
That's going to just be a great three piece.
Now if you want to send us in your music music at civicmedia.us we take it in mp3 format so make sure to send us that and if you have something come up you're releasing an album
Tell us about it because we'll bring you in for an interview or possibly even a play live from the mad city like Mona Augustine is going to do tonight Let's see still coming up
You had The Last Crack?
Last Crack.
That's what I was looking for.
Energy Mind.
You know, this is from the 1991 Burning Time album, Roadrunner Records.
I remember when it first came out, there was an MTV video and Ricky Rathman was the one to introduce it.
So it's pretty cool seeing, you know, kind of this hometown Madison band on MTV in 1991.
It was a huge ordeal.
This was...
Just an incredible album.
Let's check it out.
This is their hit single energy mind blast crack burning time 1991 you're listening to maxing radio.
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Maxing radio!
Let me go.
I'm rocker here with Jane in the control room
heavy stuff there
kind of poppy punk That was adult book club and of course they just sent us in this brand new music I think this is the first time we played it and They have a seed release party coming up for their debut full-length album chapter three
which is out this Friday, October 9th.
We recorded at Blast House Studios here in Madison and Saturday, November 14th at the Gamma Ray Bar.
You can check their CD release party with, uh, they'll be playing with cause and control and get well now.
And, uh, wow, that was pretty cool.
Double dip, 7pm.
We also have some great stuff coming up.
Marsden is around the corner.
He'll be after the break at the bottom of the hour.
Joe's going to be in here and talk about his new album.
He should be here any minute.
And then Mona Augustine is live from the Man City tonight.
His three piece band is going to be in here and playing some completely original music.
He's from Haiti and he's just got a totally different spin on music.
You're going to really love it.
And also make sure to go to maxinkradio.com because now
You know, if you're wondering what song we're playing, you can go to our front page.
It says right there now playing every five seconds.
It updates.
So it really, it updates as soon as we play a new song here on maxing radio.
Listen to our podcast on Apple music Spotify and you can find all the interviews and live from the mad cities There's a just a ton of stuff up there and of course send music mp3 format music at civicmedia.us just like We just like we just heard brand new music and we still have some brand new music coming up the German art students classic band from Madison they've been around for
more than 20 years now.
I'm pretty sure they sent us their new record actually, didn't they?
They did.
And we're going to play a new song from it right now, just released.
This is called Rip Tab.
And you know what?
I found this funny because it's how things used to happen in the old days, right?
Before Facebook Marketplace or, you know,
after one ends, but you would have posters, right?
You would rip a tab off with a phone number and give them a call and find out what was going on.
Well, here you go.
Rip tab.
It's a free download.
You can find it at Bandcamp.
The German Arts students.
Rip tab.
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that was just released pretty recently.
We played it last week, but and the week before.
So it's a great tune.
We love it so much.
We'll play
it all.
Well, this is radio.
He got to play things, right?
Get people used to it.
Pure Bliss by Seesaw.
They're going to be on November 6th.
They're going to be in Madison at the Burr Oak with Julia Minkin and Jane Hobson.
I should have queued up some Jane Hobson.
We're going to have to listen to some of that.
If we have time, we might be able to do it.
We'll
see.
check.
See if we got a song that might fit.
Okay.
In the meantime.
Wow.
Tonight's homecoming, right?
I mean, we see a lot of high schools are having their homecoming party right over at the Overture Center because State Street is jamming tonight.
And
then earlier today, right, it was homecoming for the UW.
They're playing Michigan State, the Spartans, and it's hard to believe, but the Badgers are four in one right now.
Oh my goodness.
They absolutely creamed Michigan State.
31 to three.
They had a great comeback win.
So that's pretty cool.
Good time to be in Madison.
Everybody is partying downtown.
That is for sure.
My name is Rocker here with Jane in the studio.
You're listening to Max Ink Radio.
We still have Joe Marston.
He's here in the studio.
We're going to be talking about his new album and listening to some new music just after the break at the half hour.
Then 8 p.m.
brings live from the Mad City with Mona Augustine.
And he is here with his three-piece band, Nicky Sonnon Drums.
He brought a bass player and it's just gonna be really good.
He's from Haiti and really an interesting spin on music and I can't wait to hear it.
We have lots of other good music coming up tonight.
Like for instance, Jeremiah Jams Band.
Jeremiah Jams Band, they are from...
Fox Valley, I guess I would say they are husband wife songwriting team Jeremiah and Emily jams and Wow, they're really great when I heard them.
I booked them down here for Atwood Fest.
They're that type of band
And October 10th, you can catch Jeremiah Jamspan up at One Barrel Brewing Company in Ag Harbor, Dork County, if you're going up there.
That sounds so fun and great to go up there in the fall.
And October 22nd at the OPE Brewing Company in West Alice.
That's about as Wisconsin as it gets right there.
My God.
Yeah, that's for sure.
All right, now we're heading north.
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That's when their brand new album Robotic Heart and Madison guitars singer and songwriter Joe Marston combines heavy guitars, progressive arrangements with deeply personal songwriting and inspired by artists including Jerry Cantrell, John Frugiani and David Gilmore.
Martin has spent years carving out his own sound in the Wisconsin music scene.
His latest chapter is Robotic Heart, his third album arriving October 6 and tackling everything from relationships
and grief to technology, surveillance, and modern society.
Sounds heavy.
We've already premiered a few of these songs from the record.
And tonight, Joe joins us live in the studio.
Joe Marston, welcome back to Max Inc Radio.
Thank you for having me.
Excited to be here.
Now, Joe, before we get into the new record in your current band, give us a little bit of your backstory.
I mean, how did you get started playing music?
Sure.
Yeah.
I remember.
when I first had my CD player boombox.
Yeah.
And my dad had a old like classical nylon string guitar, probably out of tune.
But I remember listening some music and being like, you know, I really want to just like play this melody I hear in my head.
And I, I finally, I found that thing and I was like plucking around on it and I kind of figured it out.
And from there, I kind of just wanted to really play guitar, but I was, I was already doing music.
I was in band.
I was playing trumpet.
So
trumpet came first.
What grade was
that?
We auditioned for instruments to what we would play in middle school.
We auditioned in fifth grade.
Everybody tried a different mouthpiece.
It's like, whatever fit, you know.
And I'm sure
they're like,
oh, we got too many of these people.
We're going to steer them this way.
You know, I know everybody wanted to like, there's tons of flute players, for example, and like not enough of some others.
So I think they kind of steered some people, but my dad had to trump it too.
And so I
got to try that out.
And they're like, well, let me try this.
And then it just kind of fell into that.
And so sixth grade through the rest of high school, I played trumpet.
And when did you drift into guitar?
Guitar was age 13, which I guess there'd be about
late,
late, late middle school, early high school.
And yeah, I picked up guitar.
My best friend picked up bass.
We were just talking about Lennon Baker.
Yeah.
And we, yeah, we just started playing stuff we liked here.
And we started with like pop punk, a lot of Blink 182.
What was your first
band?
First band was called Blue Furnace, which yeah, it was, I don't remember.
why we came up with that name.
Yeah, yeah, we might have had a little, you
know, well, blue flame is the hottest hot furnace.
And then we had our friend Elsa on drums, we were like a little power trio and playing a bunch of random stuff.
Yeah, pretty much everything we were influenced by at the time.
And then came wall of funk.
Then it was wall of funk.
Yeah, yeah, another power trio.
Yep.
Again, with Lenin on the bass and then our friend Calamore on the drums.
And then you were also in for aspirin morning for a while.
I
was.
Yeah.
Yes.
Still, I guess technically we aren't really like an active band or anything, but if the right show comes along,
you know,
if there's the right show in the area, you know, several of the guys live out of state, you know, on the West coast.
So.
Um, it's tough to get everybody back together, but we played a couple like bigger shows than last, you know, like, I think two years ago we, we played a scoff fest and we played Skappleton, Skappleton.
Right.
And then the year before that we played with, um, I voted for Krodos had a big reunion party.
And so, and then we played with mustard plug the year before that.
So we had a couple of really awesome, like big shows, but it's like one a year and this year we didn't,
it's rare.
Yeah.
Super fun man to be,
you know, of all your influences, we, we.
Kentrell, Frusciani, Thornley, Gilmore.
Frusciante.
Sorry, I hate to be.
Frusciante.
Frusciante.
Which one do you catch yourself stealing from the most?
Oh gosh, that's hard.
I feel lately it's Ian Thornley from Big Rec, but John, John from the Chili Peppers Lake is a big.
influence for like the bends and guitar solos and stuff like that.
But I don't play a lot of funk in the in the new music.
But like, yeah, he was a huge influence on me.
Now, your third album, robotic heart comes out October 6.
And you described it as your deepest and most musically intricate record yet.
What happened in your life between tune it out and this album that's made the record different?
Sure.
Yeah.
I've moved a couple of times.
I had a breakup during that time period.
I feel like during that, I had a lot of time for reflection.
I bought a house on my own and I did that thing and I just kind of, I feel like there's a lot of maturing, but also a lot of like, as of late, just kind of reflection on just stuff going on in the government and everything else like that.
Yeah, I've got a lot of time to dwell on and put into some music here.
Now, you've got five new songs alongside Got The Time, Keep Safe, and For The Trees.
Were you consciously building an album during those years, or did you realize these songs just really belong together?
Yeah, that's a great question.
I was consciously building an album actually like I want to say the summer after I did tune it out I had a bunch of stuff together enough of demos that we went into a studio we went to blast house here in town and we did five songs on drums so we that was the goals I had an idea I was gonna do an EP at the time was the thought and I was like let's record these songs on drums and then those have sat for like
three years.
Just the drum part.
Yeah, just the drum part.
It's like we did have we did have got the time keepsake and for the trees in there.
So I was like, I'm going to do singles.
I'm going to do the thing where you release a single and you kind of build that up.
And it's just
You know, it just takes time.
I find sometimes, you know, I wanted to I wanted to go faster.
And that's always my goal.
But life gets in the way sometimes.
And but the goal is always is keep playing and keep releasing music.
So that's right.
Keep it moving.
So yes, there was a plan, but it took a little bit of time to get here.
Tell us about the other musicians that are on the record and in your live band.
Sure, yeah, so on the record on pretty much all the songs is my man Brett Walter plays drums also in Lords of the Trident in town.
Oh,
yeah.
Awesome band known them forever and great guys.
And so I met Brett before I did the tune it out album.
So he did the tune it all album with me and he did this album with me and
Yeah, we work in the studio together.
So he's on all that sort of stuff.
We will be working together going forward too.
And he also plays with me live.
But then I got two other guys I'll play with live.
Lennon Baker, as I mentioned before, on bass and my buddy.
Brandon Jensen on the guitar, so backing me up, and he plays with work in town here.
Oh, yeah.
Wow, you got an all-star band.
Yeah, yeah, he's great.
And he plays in Granny Shot, too, cover band.
So that's the band.
But on the album, I had a couple other people ahead.
My friend Sarah from the cancellations, she played violin on the song you just heard on silence.
So it's the first time I've added strings on one of my songs, which was super exciting to do.
And she and a lot of other people, I'm not going to be able to name them all off top of my head, but pretty much almost everyone else in the cancellations, other band I play in, let their voices and acquire part that I did on the last song, Fate of the album.
So yeah.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Tell us about Blast House.
It seems like we hear a lot of stuff coming out of Blast House Studio.
Who did you produce there with?
And, you know, tell us about this studio that I mean, people hear a lot of stuff coming out of there.
It seems pretty popular.
Yeah, I think it's definitely a popular local studio.
I've known a lot of other people going there.
I really liked working there.
We worked with Dustin Sisson, who actually isn't working there anymore.
He wanted to move on from doing
just recording for so long.
So he's moved on.
I think he's a teaching now, but he was amazing to work with.
Basis from Skyroad Fly, right?
Oh, no, that's Dustin Harmon.
This is a different Dustin.
So
close.
No, yeah, yeah.
Also owns a studio and also a cool dude.
But yeah.
But yeah, Dustin was great to work with great year.
And I brought my buddy who actually mixed and mastered the album to Lee Petts in
when we did the sessions just as another ear and kind of listening to help make sure we were nailing all the drum parts.
So it's really nice working with those
guys.
Focused, the song, it goes into some pretty big territory.
Mass surveillance, AI, data centers, consumerism, and the force is trying to influences.
What pisses you off that you had to write that song?
Oh gosh, all of the above, you know, like, I don't, I don't want, I mean, I grew up hearing big brother was bad and now it just seems people are just rolling over or like.
any local municipality, any sort of government is just like, okay, yeah, let's put up these cameras in the name of security.
And
you mean like flock cameras?
Yeah,
flock cameras is just one of the many different people, you know, place corporations that sell those things and implement them.
And that combined with AI, I think is just very pervasive, everything being stored and examined in all the plethora of ways that can be used against us.
And now,
Um, you know, I do think it's, it's not like security cameras are bad.
You know, we have to have some for some reason, but to have them everywhere and in these places that don't make sense and surveilling where we drive and it's, I think it's too much.
I think it's way too much and, and I'm very against it.
So it's interesting because for a while there, it was almost little brother was watching you.
Sure.
All the like small people started getting cameras and door ringers.
And but now big brother is kind of coming back into the picture where we didn't see that.
So, you know, you make a very interesting point.
And recently there's been a lot of news about AI.
And you said you kind of feel strongly.
So do you how do you feel about AI?
I mean, can people use it on their own?
Are you worried more about the big corporations and the state run type stuff?
Yeah, I think that's a really tough conversation.
It's so involved.
But let's go, let's try and keep it surface level.
I think that on an individual level, like I've used AI, I don't use it extensively.
I use it for some of the more data driven purposes of like doing my job a little bit, sometimes finding things that I can't Google as easily sometimes.
But I don't really want to promote it that much either, because I know how much I don't want to promote the extensive use of data centers.
And I also think that AI and art
it should not exist.
I think AI is stolen a bunch of protected
content,
which fortunately there's been some good rulings recently against that.
So yeah, no programming AI with any sort of stolen content.
No utilizing it for things that should be human created and derived.
Definitely not used for powering mass data collection on people to be used in whatever in a various ways.
So yeah, that's kind of all of the above.
I think you got to be very smart about it.
It's kind of like almost like, you know, using a gun, you know, you
know, well, that actually brings up a really important point because all of the things that you just said are actually you're worried about the human, not necessarily the AI.
the AI is just the the tool, right?
Because most of the things you cited are actually human problems, not necessarily AI problems.
Yeah, I guess it's like, you know, nuclear power, right?
You can
power
a city for good or you can build a bomb and blow everybody up.
But it's about the the wielder of that tool that almost makes it better or worse.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's almost double edged because
We we see a lot of reasons why that we need more governance around it.
But then it's kind of like, you know, I don't want too much governance either.
So it's just it's a really tough, tough conversation.
I don't know where it goes.
I think it's just important to write music about it, call attention to it and express my feelings about it through music.
When you're writing about something political or technological, how do you keep the song human rather than turning it into a lecture?
Oh, yeah.
I kind of just dig into the emotions behind it.
Think about maybe some key things that people are feeling and try and evoke that into a mood more so than just saying you should think this, you should think that.
Well, Robotic Heart comes out Monday, October 6th.
What's up next for Marston and where can we hear the record and see you play and, you know, keep track of you.
Totally, yeah, records.
You can listen always on MarsandMusic.com, but it's going to be streaming everywhere.
I plan on doing a release show eventually.
I just kind of had some life stuff get in the way for having that happen around the album.
But if you follow me on social media, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, you'll find all that on my website.
But yeah, handle is Mars Denizen.
But I have a ton of cool content that we filmed to promote it.
coming up.
So that's going to be released over the next month for focused and then for silence and more beyond that.
So that's kind of the focus right now.
No pun intended.
And yeah, perfect.
Marsden music dot com.
Joe, thank you so much for taking the time to stop in the studio and chat with us tonight.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you so much for having me.
Well, right now, let's take a listen to that song.
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We have one more song coming up.
Maybe we have time for another song after that, but programmed Magic 7.
I was gonna talk about them a little bit more because one of my friends
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And I was like, man, it made me remember that song.
It was from the Mad City music show, which was Sue Peterson over on W I B A F M. Oh, late nineties, early 2000s.
And she used to have bands on the radio.
I forget what night that was playing, but she'd have live in her studio mixed by John Mocnic of sleepless nights studios.
Really good time.
Magic 7 appeared on there and they played one of their songs called harvest time I thought it was apropos to play a harvest time song because well
Yeah, we're just getting into October like fall is finally hitting like we just had that second wind of summer a couple weeks ago But I'd say that's officially over now
what
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I hope the weather stays good tomorrow today and yesterday were absolutely amazing
I know I also hope all the wasps start to go away now because
oh, yeah
fall in Wisconsin is wasps
season, not my favorite time of year.
Yeah, they don't have much time left.
Let let them enjoy the dead fruit because here they go.
All right, well, let's get on with it.
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My name is Rocker and we are going into live from the Mad City on Maxingradio.
Jane is in the control room.
And
Joe's here too.
He's sticking around.
Joe's sticking around.
He's in the control room and Mona is putting on his headphones right now.
Mona, can you hear me?
Let's see.
Are we getting them?
We have the live channel.
Test.
Give me a test there.
Hey, hey.
There we are.
There's live radio, everybody.
Tonight on Live from the Mad City, we're joined by Haitian American musician, composer and artist, Mona Augustine, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Mona wrote his first song at age 20 and has gone on to create more than a hundred original songs.
excuse me, and performed throughout the Caribbean and the United States.
His music combines social and deeply personal themes, but his work extends far beyond the stage.
Following Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, Mona became an advocate for families struggling to rebuild their lives through the community known as Mosaic.
And tonight we get his story and of course his music.
Mona is accompanied tonight by drummer Nikki Sun and Joe Harris on bass guitar.
Mona, Guston, Nikki Sun, Joe Harris.
Welcome to live from the Man City on Max Inc.
Radio.
Hey.
Everybody here.
Yes, thanks.
Thanks.
When you want to taste cooking of your homeland, Mona.
in the other Caribbean food.
Where do you go out in Madison to get that?
How long Bay?
Where what?
How long Bay?
Wow.
How long Bay?
Yes.
And they have they have Caribbean food there.
Not but though that's your favorite restaurant.
It's a little bit similar.
Yeah, I see.
Yeah.
And now Mona, how did you get started playing music?
What's your backstory?
Oh,
Yeah, but that's starting a punch up my family had a punch up so You know we We kept some kind of stuff like we We gave money like you know punch up it we call it in Haiti wake up work Wake up work in French punch up.
I
see.
Yeah, so we receive some guitars piano
blanket everything like that so we we gave some money and we evaluate the the article and if it's our value the money they're asking we gave we gave it to them yeah but if not we said no but the history it's like that and I had a
I have a cousin who's also playing music, so classical guitar.
But, you know, when I started, it was in the office, so we started with Tum Tum.
Yeah, Tum Tum, or the friend came.
Yeah, I said, wow, we have to make a group, a band, something like that, so.
And I started, and I didn't really, I know how to-
What year was this?
Oh, it's about the year, it's like 1981, like that,
I remember.
Yeah.
And that's where you got your first guitar at your pawn shop?
Is that what you started with, was guitar?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I started with it first with you.
piano we got but you know piano it's easy to make some notes but guitar is more difficult so i have to hire a teacher you know he came home and teach me how to play my first circuit you know
and how old were you at this time
um i think i was 14 14
I don't really remember, but maybe 15.
14, 15?
Yes.
Now, what role did your parents play in your upbringing?
Were they musicians as well?
Did they play?
One cousin, yeah.
A cousin of mine.
So he always played French music.
And yeah, I like the way he played, but it's not what he did.
I would like to do.
So what I did is different.
from what he did so but he he does inspire me so um yeah they so we start in the office you know somebody you know you know play the on the office on the table yeah on the table yeah and me with a little
piano, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching,
ching, you
know?
Yeah.
That is, that was the beginning, so.
Do you play other instruments besides guitar?
Uh, piano, um, tom, tom, tom, we call it tombo.
Percussion?
Percussion, yeah.
Um, yeah, this is after I play guitar, and my, my, my real voice is a guitar, a instrument, it's, uh, my voice.
Nice.
You wrote your first song when you were 20.
Do you remember that song and what finally made you go from performing music to writing things on your own?
Oh My first song named a long ago, you know, it's I remember this you know this title so When I start, you know
I listen to a lot of music, Genua, Compa, Wege, Zook, Calypso, Disco, you know.
But, you know, in Haiti, we, our Genua mostly is Compa, the style.
So, and come up later, later a Zook.
So I blend both Compa and Zook.
And also, you know, at the time, I listened to Michael Jackson, George Michael, Elton John.
Well,
maybe I'm getting at a little story about...
a producer who liked your voice?
Yes, I can discern on that question.
So, yeah, I play...
Tell us that
story.
Yeah, I do play a lot of covers, you know, like one of my favorite was...
Oh yeah, okay.
Yeah, something like that.
And I play all the songs too, all the covers.
So one day, I put you say come to me and say, I like your voice.
Can you...
Can you make an album?
Do you want me to make an album?
Yeah, he wanted me to make an album.
So I said, oh.
So how many songs do you have?
I said, oh, I have none.
Oh my.
Wow.
I said, can I cover?
He said, no, no.
I just want original songs.
I didn't have anything.
He said, okay, but I just I just want to Do make a original song.
Yeah, you know not you know cover songs So
So you're not writing
music.
Yeah, he left me so I said wow right now I'm gonna think other way, you know, yeah, so I started to Compose song
Nice.
Well, let's get to some live music from the Mad City with Mona Augustine, presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The first song that you have for us tonight is called This Love Is Blessed.
Tell us about this song before you play.
And fortunately, my wife is here with me.
She's also my manager.
Candice.
You know, we wrote this song together.
I feel our love is blessed.
So this song explains the real history.
And we are blessed.
So I really like this song.
All right.
Well, let's check it out.
This is Monant Gustin.
This love is blessed.
You're listening to live music from the Mad City on Max Inc Radio.
Flex you love
Cause in your eyes, I see everything When you're smile darling, I see there's no, you should be go, go and dream
I see this love explain you
Very cool.
You are live from the mad city on maxing radio Mona now you've written more than a hundred original songs and compilations After that many songs, where does one usually begin for you?
Is it with like a melody?
Is it with lyrics a personal experience or words you need to say?
Where do you start writing your songs?
Yeah, sometimes it's a melody
Let's come with the melody.
I got a melody.
I got something.
I just put it on the tape we call the bear words.
I'm talking about with long time ago.
But right now it's easy.
I can just feel a melody.
I record it from my phone.
But sometimes the words come.
I try to find the good melody.
You know, but I don't really have a way to to expand that.
So because that can come either way from melody or I like some words.
I remember I composed this song because one one word losing blue that that came in my mind.
So I said losing blue.
It's sound cool.
So
I
said, well, okay.
I composed this song because this word, you know, blues and blue.
Well, let's meet the musicians you brought here tonight.
And we'll start with bassist Joe Harris.
Joe, how did you get started in music?
And what's your backstory?
Well,
make sure you talk right into that, Mike.
Uh-huh.
Uh, yeah.
Thanks for giving me an opportunity to talk, Rocker.
Yeah.
I started playing music when I was about 15 years old.
I didn't come from a musical family, but somehow I had the bug to play music.
We had an old guitar in the house, and I picked it up, and I pretty much taught myself how to play.
For somehow, I was extremely dedicated and extremely self-motivated to teach myself all that I could, enough so that after five years, I enrolled in university, and I was a scholarship student studying classical guitar.
I ended up...
getting a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in classical guitar performance.
And what school?
That was at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Oh, nice.
And how did you graduate to the bass?
Well,
bass guitar is a lot like regular guitar.
If you can play the regular guitar, you can pretty much play the bass.
I've been teaching over the years and I always had a few bass guitar students.
So I had a bass guitar.
in my shop.
So every now and then I would perform on bass guitar.
There's one time I actually performed on bass and a couple of different people saw me and said, oh, Joe, you play bass.
You want to play bass in my big
band?
Everybody always needs a bass
player.
Yeah.
OK.
Yeah, it's got strings I can play.
Yeah, I'll play in your band.
Sure.
So yeah.
And what other bands have you played with around this area?
Well, right now I do a lot of work in musical theater.
I play in about one show a month.
with various organizations here around town.
I play guitar or bass guitar.
And our drummer here, Nicky.
Nicky and I play in various jazz combos around town.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Oh, very cool.
Well, how did you meet up and start playing with Mona
over here?
Through Nicky.
Yeah, about a year ago, Mona and Nicky were a duo.
And Nicky approached me and said, hey, Joey, I think this group could use a bass guitar.
What do you think?
So I watched some videos of Mona and Nicky.
And I'll tell you one thing I want to say.
My initial reaction to watching videos of Mona, I think it should be obvious to anybody who looks at Mona.
Mona has a huge heart and is full of love.
And I knew watching those videos of Mona perform that.
Yeah, this is something I would love to be a part of this type of love and positivity.
Wow.
Oh, that's very cool.
Well, let's get back to some live music from the Mad City with Mona Augustine, presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song that you have for us tonight is called Se Sa.
Is this a love song that actually includes bathtubs?
It's a love song.
Yeah.
Tell us about that song before you
play.
It's a good song.
I do want to translate this song in English because the words are wonderful.
So it's about poetry.
If you were a warrior,
I would be able to, if I was a water, I would be able to bathe, you know, to be there for you to bathe on me.
You know, it's kind of stuff.
I expand on this song.
Nice.
Well, I knew that there was a bathtub involved.
Back tub.
No.
Oh, yeah, because you talk about it.
Because I talk
you know, if you were, yeah, if I was a water, you know,
you would be on me, yeah.
Well, say so.
Let's hear it.
You're listening to Mona Augustine, live from the Mad City on Maxing radio.
Je
suis tombé pour de toi Et je ferai n'importe quoi Pour t'avoir un méboire ma douce nana Je suis vache mon chalot Quand le nom est de Paul d'Amour
Glico, I want to face you.
I want you to become my fiancé.
Oh, it's stronger than me.
I'm sure you don't want me.
You don't want me.
you.
city on Maxink radio.
Hey, you know, let's get right into just one more song.
These are really great here.
Let's get back to live music from the Mad City with Mona Gustin presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight.
It's called a toss to that too.
I got it.
Yeah.
Is this another sentimental you have everything.
Yeah.
Tell us about this
song and then
play
sentimental song.
Yeah.
It's always about love about this.
Yeah.
Because, yeah, people always say, Mona, it's better you sing social song.
I know.
I said, OK, because I have a lot of social song.
But I realized at the same time, when people say that, I said, oh, if I am if I am here, it's because of love.
You
people want me to sing only social song.
So, yeah.
I think I
read a lot of love songs.
Yeah,
I
do love.
Oh, let's hear it.
Yeah.
As to you're listening to Mona Guston live from the Mad City on Maxing radio.
Yes.
It's all for you.
So belt it down, belt it inside
De plus, il y a
bien, il est gentil
I'm telling you that I'm the man with whom I can count on your love because you're not the one who's trying to...
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We are here for part two of Live from the Man City with Mona Gustin tonight, and he brings his three piece band.
So let's give the drummer some Nicky son.
Nicky, how did you get started playing music?
What's your backstory?
Well, I was pretty much the kid that pulled out all the pots and pans and started banging on them.
My parents decided, you know, drums might sound better than that.
And I took drum lessons as a kid and play in all the school bands and things.
And later in life, got real interested in hand percussion.
I met some different people from different cultures and had a lot of great opportunities to study that music and have, you know, been playing drum set and hand percussion for gosh, I don't how many years now, probably like 40 years.
Well, what what music did your parents listen to?
They were big jazz fans.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
The pots and pans must have been a big difference.
I think I saw Buddy Rich on TV.
They're like, can you play these pots and pans with brushes, please?
Do you play more than just drums or all percussion instruments?
Oh, my dabble a little bit on the piano, but really drums are my thing.
Well, piano is a percussion instrument, you know.
That's
true.
What other local bands do you play with?
Well, I am the leader of Ladies Must Swing Big Band.
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah, I said they are founder June Dalton passed away
last
year and left me in charge and the band's still going strong.
We're playing all over.
Nice.
Now before we actually played an Anna Wang in the Old Boys song.
I was thinking that's where I was on Maximum Ink once before.
Yeah.
You played with them.
And you said some ska bands you play with.
I currently play with mescales.
Wow.
Now that's pretty interesting.
Now how did you meet up with Mona?
I met up with Mona through also who sadly passed the bass player of Ladies Must Swing.
Laurie Riss
was
her name and she actually recorded with Mona.
They were playing together.
She's a cellist or was a cellist with the symphony.
and it played beautiful cello with Mona's guitar and singing and she said hey you know you want to play some drums with Mona and we ran into each other I think it was at Paradigm recording studios I was playing some drums for somebody else and Mona was recording and we exchanged contacts and you know when Laurie passed I was like you know I'm gonna
I need to keep playing with Mona.
This is a gift.
Lori's left me and I've been so happy.
We've had so many wonderful shows.
Mona's energy is so positive.
Wow, that's that is pretty cool.
Well, let's get right back to some music live from the Mad City with Mona Gustin presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight is called I'll Never Be Alone.
And is this a song with good vibrations?
It's all about yeah
Yeah About my wife, you know, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh perfect.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
Well, let's hear it I'll never be alone.
You're listening to Mona Augustine live from the man city on maxing radio
not to blazing as my dream and fall into a whirlwind bed in garden beams.
My humble heartland to fly has through every moment and I wish us together.
All of them, dances and the air,
of music such as comparé and blues.
Among every man, I'll never stand uniquely blessed for having you beside me.
You're a lofter.
Dances in the air, ocean west of music, such as home for reggae blues.
My heart just merrily kisses the plastic walled beach.
city on Max inc radio, Mona in 2010, Haiti was devastated by an earthquake.
And one of the things you did is you started something called mosaic, not the organization first, but the people who are 126 families.
How did you become a part of their story?
Tell us about that.
It's a long history.
Well, we need to shorten it a little bit, but
yeah, and it was the place I
I live, so I know almost all the people around.
So when the earthquake hit, so I saw so many, so many lives lost.
And I want to make it short because it's really
a long
story.
There was a place we played soccer.
So it was, for us, it was a safety place.
So everyone who lived there tried to get there.
It wasn't a really good place, but it was really, it was dusty, but, you know.
They had quick hits.
No one can say where they are.
Big concrete block.
So we went there.
Other people from all over Haiti try to get there too.
I don't know how they get there.
But tomorrow I want to say
the the day after they had quick hits so I So all the people just you know the tomatoes I Said I have to do something I Try to work with them.
So try to place them because they respect me because I'm a musician they then know I I can also have they said can you help us, you know
You know, I said, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do, I'm, you know, I don't know yet, but what I, what I did, I just start to, uh, uh, to place people.
I said, okay, you have this land here.
You have this part here.
Just stay here.
So now I try, you know, I,
organize them.
I didn't want to be a leader.
So I just went to.
just help them for a little while.
So, um, this is how I become, because I become, they want, they said, you have to, to, to help us.
So I went to the place, uh, I usually, uh, we have so with my band, I, I, I, I explained that to them.
So they said, yeah, we know someone, somebody we can have, you can have some tents like that.
I start.
So
you helped out all these people after the earthquakes?
Yeah, yeah.
So, it's a long history.
I don't think we have time.
Maybe Candice can explain, can say something about that too because she knows the history.
Well, there's a microphone over there.
This is Candice.
This is your wife.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Just fast forward 16 years have passed now since the earthquake Mona has been instrumental in securing a piece of seven acres of land in the Central Plateau of Haiti Where he has well we together have built along with the help of a very generous family foundation 30 homes
Wow
a medical clinic a community center
a bakery.
The medical clinic sees about 90 patients a month.
We just sent tuition to Haiti that will cover 76 students
for the coming year.
And this is Mosaic.
This is
Mosaic, the community that started as Mona's neighborhood in tents and tarps.
And it has been a long and arduous journey, but Mona's heart is huge.
And as long as he's breathing, he will not give up on this community.
We are, you know, seeing kids graduate from high school.
Oh, they have gardens.
They have animals.
They're farming.
Wow.
And this is just the beginning.
We've got, you know, probably, yeah, we've got huge plans.
Wow, that's
incredible.
So.
Yeah, you can look us up at www.moziikvillage.org and follow the progress.
Perfect.
And also, we
have a YouTube video,
you know.
Yes, there's a YouTube documentary called
Moziik.
Moziik.
It's the history
of
Mona.
It is the history of Moziik.
You'll find that on YouTube.
And that's MOZ.
A-Y-I-K.
Yes, it's a 30 minute documentary.
And it tells the beginning of the story.
And it is worth watching.
And we're just happy to report that Haiti is not all that the media portrays it to be.
There are a lot of good and generous people.
There are students that are just dying to get an education.
So
there's a lot of good going on in Haiti.
And so we hold them all in our prayers.
Thank
you.
All right.
Well, let's get back to live music from the Mad City with Mona Augusta and presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for tonight is called I'll Be Gone.
Is this a warning or a matter of fact?
During the COVID, so I thought I would.
Yeah, we need to roll.
Hey, hey,
go
ahead.
Okay.
So I said, okay, just in case.
I wanna just compose a song about with the COVID.
But I don't want, I didn't want to mention COVID.
But I would like to make a song to preach people.
While you are alive, you can do a good thing.
You can share what you have after you have to take care of your family, but you can also have other people.
Because you can have a lot of money, so when you go...
You will have only your coffin.
This is what I'm talking about with this song.
Nice.
Well, let's hear it.
Yeah.
This is called I'll Be Gone, Mona and Gustin, live from the Mad City on Maxingradio.
Don't know the day I was born Don't know the day I'll be gone I'll be gone Just
like everyone I'll be used alone Fortunately without written If only I
knew
Mona Gustin live from the man city on maxing radio.
I'll be gone and Mona you have a show coming up October 17th at the cargo coffee East and we can find your music on Apple Music Spotify YouTube Facebook and Instagram and of course your website Mona Gustin calm and we just have time for one more song quick so I'm gonna have you just start playing and play it out.
Thank you so much for you guys for coming down
and perform for us tonight.
This song is called Na Na Na Na, and I think it's your most popular song.
Let's hear it.
Thanks, Mona.
See y'all next
week.
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