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_____________________________________________________________________________________________Just Seven Acoustic Songs... LIVE from Houston, Texas1. Close Your Eyes 2. Lonely Years 3.
Making Worlds Collide 4. Fatigued 5. Bonus Track 6. Sealed My Fate 7. All I Really Know to Say 8. Telephone Interview This is the first record Mark produced. It is a collection of
songs that he put together to show the different styles of music he can play. Written and performed by Mark. Recorded
May 9th, 2003 in three hours, on two tracks! Copyright
© 2003______________________________________________________________________________________________cleverly seeing green - acoustic version -1. Winter Wind 2. Make It Right 3. A Reason Why 4. The Long Road Home 5. Selfish Lies
6. Why 7. After Everything 8.
de's ember 9. BCG 10. A Girl to Call My Own 11. Eyes of Gold 12. Here I Stand 13. I Heard You Call My Name 14. Temporarily Insane 15. Our Kiss 16. Windchimes This is Mark's first album that he produced, engineered, and mastered.
Recorded in January, 2004. Written and performed by Mark. Much more thought and creativity was put into this one.
It is an album full of emotion. Love, anger, sorrow, anticipation, regret, deception, and insanity. It's all in here!
Copyright © 2004_______________________________________________________________________________________________The Calm Of Chaos - Acoustic Version -1. Hello 2. Hazy 3. Liftoff 4. Stevex with a J 5. Saving Lives 6. Raw Instinct 7. Wise 8. Criticism 9. Painfully
10. Shoreline 11. So Unreal 12.
Tap the Vein 13. I Can't Take No More 14. Madder than Mad as Hell
15. Under Ice 16. Please Produced, written, performed, engineered, and mastered by Mark. Recorded in January, 2004. More
political and story telling than the previous albums. Mark really put his heart and soul into this record. I can't
wait for the electric version! Copyright © 2004________________________________________________________________________________________________Writing Life While Living Poems - Poetry Disc -1. Beyond Control 2. Essence 3. The Dream I See 4. Loneliness 5.
The World 6. Live Lies 7. ELM 8. Question 9. Raining Wave
10. I.Q. 11. Scars 12. No One 13. Words 14. Mistakes 15. I Do 16.
Mockter Steuss 17. Politics 18. Wonderful Dream 19.
I was OK 20. Interview from Sheffield, UK 21. Rememberance - Live from Sheffield,
UK - 22. Girl - Leeds, UK 23. City of Rawk - Nottingham, UK 24. The Beginning Another first for Mark! Falling deeper into his lost mind, and
darker than the night sky. "This is my crowning achievement," words from the man himself. Also included are three
songs; Rememberance, Girl, and City of Rawk. Produced, written, performed, engineered, and mastered by Mark. Recorded
in February, 2004. Copyright © 2004________________________________________________________________________________________________... and everyday after1.
Seek 2. Dunno 3. Hard to Dream at Nite 4. Real Life 5. Look and See 6. Vulnerable 7. True Pride - LIVE from Dallas, Texas 8. Where Are You - LIVE from Austin, Texas 9. What is Certain Mark has done it again! "This is my most diverse album vocally," he says. Mark wrote, produced,
performed, engineered, and mastered this record. Included are two live tracks from a tour of Texas in July, 2003. Recorded
in April, 2004. Copyright
© 2004________________________________________________________________________________________________All art, songs, and poems are dedicated to ELM and JM.All contents copyright © 1975 - 2009 Caalma International.
Except where noted otherwise. Caalma, Caalma Records, Caalma Productions, and Caalma Visual are divisions of Caalma
International. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, broadcasting, lending,
and public performance are strictly prohibited and will result in a serious butt kicking AND a possible kick in the nuts.
Basically, my music is free... Just don't steal it.
Musical Biography, hahahahahahaaa, sort of! If I could remember everything....Way back in nineteen hundred and seventy-five, Mark Steven McCraw's
parents decided to have a shag, and nine months later he popped out. To the doctors surprise, he was strikingly handsome
and very well endowed. Mark spent most of his years growing up in Pasadena, Texas. He lived with his Grandmother, Emma Lucille,
and his mom, Jerilu, just about all his life. "I love my Nanna and my momma with all of my heart," Mark says. He
started to play music in 1983 at the age of eight, when Martin Hauser first introduced him to the piano. His fondest memories
are of hiding in the hallway listening to Martin play the guitar. One day, Mark had to sneeze and Martin saw him. Martin said,
"What are you doing?" Mark said, "Nothing!" Martin replied, "You don't have to hide, come here
son." Martin then showed him basic chords, taught him about melodies, and showed him that a song doesn't have to
be really intricate, just catchy. Martin would always say, "A song has to have a groove!" Mark dedicated his life
to music in 1987 when a friend introduced him to the drums. He then realized that music was the one constant
in his life. "I feel like I have to give back to what has given me so much," he says. In 1991, Mark played drums
in his first real band, Blind Witness. "To this day, that is still my favorite band. We were just a bunch of kids,"
he says. Shortly after that, Mark began to sing and play the guitar. "When musicians found out I could sing, that
was the end of the road for my drums." In 1994, his band Emerald Shade began to get recognition in and around the
Houston area. This was his first experience as a full time musician. "It all happened so fast! I didn't even see
it coming. I had no idea music could be like this," Mark remembers. In 1997, the band changed their name to diatribe and
were signed by Suede Blue Management to a 3 month management contract. To Marks surprise they did very well, and were
later signed to a 3 year deal. He was finally able to leave Pasadena, and try to make something of himself. In the summer
of 2000, after diatribe lost two members to drugs, Mark said "enough is enough," and ventured out on his own. "Loyalty
is very hard to find," Mark says. That was when he began performing as Mark Steven McCraw. It opened up a whole new world.
He started to find happiness again. Mark says, "It was one night when I played an open mic with some friends. I saw the
true meaning of music." He has no ego what-so-ever, and is very likable. He is very good with a crowd, and some say he
should be a comedian. In 2001, Mark made some friends in the UK via the Internet. He began to travel to Europe and the band
Cosmonautic was born. This was Mark's most memorable musical effort, but travel got the most of him. "That was
alot! I was going back and forth on 10-12 hour plane trips just to try and make my dreams come true. It was all worth
it, I fell in love with Europe," he remembers. "I wish I was strong enough and smart enough to be able to make
it in music on my own," Mark wishes, "but there is only so much I can do." He plays music over 40 hours per
week, and is known for practicing for practice. He plays a variety of instruments including... Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards,
drums, percussion, steel drums, xylophone, strings, and mandolin. In the summer of 2003, Mark recorded his first solo acoustic
album, and created the band Caalma. He says, "It has been a tough road, but I am making progress." He made the Standby
List for 2004's South by Southwest Music Festival, a great accomplishment. 2004 also saw Mark record three more acoustic
albums and a poetry disc. Mark is a dreamer with some really great ideas. Mark enjoys art, book-writing, poetry, skateboarding,
films, baseball, collecting things, space, and Star Trek. In 2004, he founded Caalma Records. He is hopeful that
it will take off, and help to get him to the next level. Music is his one true happiness. As Caalma Records evolved into
Caalma International in January 2005, He also made standby list for 2005's SXSW Music Festival. The summer of 2006 has Mark
co-creating the band numbers11 for a new horizon, but the sun has quickly set as his bandmate finds happiness on the west
coast. "I don't blame him at all. It is beautiful there," he says. Now he finds himself alone again. January
of 2007, Mark is finally able to record the first Caalma album. Two years in the making, it is coming along ALOT better then
even he expected. "Hopefully there will be a few more! hahahahaahaaa..." he dreams. "I don't need
fame, fortune, sex, or drugs... I just need Rock & Roll!" Martin Hauser please e-mail Mark at
mark@caalma.com
All contents copyright © 1975
- 2009 Caalma International. Except where noted otherwise. Caalma, Caalma Records, Caalma Productions, and
Caalma Visual are divisions of Caalma International. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying,
reproduction, hiring, broadcasting, lending, and public performance are strictly prohibited and will result in a serious
butt kicking AND a possible kick in the nuts. Basically, my music is free... Just don't steal it.
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