20 Year Anniversary

Welcome to The Friends of The Cape May Lighthouse Special Edition download page.
Including two bonus tracks that are free with the Album download,
only available here.
The Re-Mastered original 1993 release from native Cape May musician 
two time ASCAP award winner, Geno White. 
 
Proceeds go towards the Lighthouse ongoing restoration and maintenance
The entire CD w/ Bonus Tracks $14.99

The Cape May Lighthouse

Music From Inside the Lighthouse - Remastered 20th Anniversary Special Edition

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"The Friends of the Cape May Lighthouse" an affinity group of the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities and Geno White partner to bring you the 20th Anniversary Remastered Edition of " Music from Inside The Lighthouse. "

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    Fresnel / Reflections 4:13
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    1859 - Summertime 4:23
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    Ezekiel Stevens - Clockwinding 2:08
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    Funck - First Order,Five Wick 2:46
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    Daymarker 3:23
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    Stormwatch 2:40
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    Bend to the Horizon 9:51
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    Rotation of the Beacon 2:30
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    Neptunes Children 4:57
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    (intermission) 0:24
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    Harpoon (Bonus Track) 4:03
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    Riverwide (Bonus Track) 2:40
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Music from Inside the Lighthouse
Clear Ear records (CE1003)
is a national first.
The entire project was recorded live from within
 Cape May's 157-foot tall lighthouse
that has beckoned to navigators from the mouth of the
Delaware Bay for 154 years.
Each song on the album is a musical interpretation of a piece
of the Lighthouse's history
and the people who made it special.
The project features several other musicians performing on
harmonica, euphonium, percussion and voice;
and is
dedicated
to those fishermen who have died at sea.
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This recording is not just about modern man.
It is not a recording from the studio engineer's viewpoint.
It is raw, it is about the love transcended from our past...
All sounds are from inside the lighthouse,
a look into the very depths of our own America.
Therefore, presented to you are the sounds
 as they went down on this project.
The intrinsic reverb,
the musician-to-musician afterthought in split second decision
governed by the excitement of the music itself
and the walls of the lighthouse
the inner cavity
the heart, the soul,
 the giant's ear -
the dampness kissing guitar strings and covering drum heads.
- - - Geno White, 1993

Two Time ASCAP Award Winner

Historical Notes

1. Fresnel / Reflections

Augustin Fresnel (1788 - 1827) applied his theorems of light waves to the light house lens he perfected in 1822, which is unsurpassed to this day

2. 1859 - Summertime

The year the Cape May Lighthouse was completed. Texture of the first summer season.

3. Ezekiel Stevens - Clockwinding

Ezekiel Stevens was the first keeper of the light which in
1859, lit by whale oil, had to be “Wound”
The lens rode on a
chariot, with ten wheels, and twenty guide wheels, driven by a clock work weight system.

4. Funck-First Order. Five Wick

Funks' lamp was the most widely used lamps in the first order lighthouses.

 5. Daymarker

When not flashing at night, a lighthouse's paint scheme was its mark in daylight. The military inflections of this drum solo
are so, because this site was also a Coast Guard Lifesaving Station.

6. Storm Watch

June 12, 1891, lighting struck the ball on the dome of the tower, stretched down the metal framework of the lantern,
leaped to the iron of the watch room and followed through to the electric call bell wires into the keeper dwellings
 causing "much damage to the interiors."

7. Bend to the Horizon
Fresnels lens would bend light 24 miles to the edge of the horizon.

8. Rotation of the Beacon

A spectacular stereo recording of the one-of-a-kind experimental system that has been running perfectly since
1946. This is the second oldest Active Lighthouse in the USA.

9. Neptune's Children
What we all are, where we all come from, and where some of us return.

Video

Hook Her Geno plays an acoustic out-take from the Lighthouse sessions,and talks briefly about the song meaning and Music from Inside the Lighthouse. 23.7 MB

Your Lighthouse Stories/open blog

The Music 

...well Thank You so much for visiting our Special Edition page, what a great original adventure it was to create music for - and to record inside the Lighthouse. I did indeed compose the music so that a musician 100 years ago could have very well entertained an audience,even a Civil War Troop.
The rarest guitar in existence is a Martin that was once owned by Mark Twain, he bought it used, fully documented, and indeed Mark Twain played guitar for Civil War Soldiers.I hope his spirit has heard and enjoys the "Music From Inside the Lighthouse"
Love and Music to you all.
Geno White
1/24/2013