A video dedicated to Wicasta’s mother, Peggy Joyce Chaney, who passed away on December 30th, 2011.

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Once again we seem to be re-inventing the wheel with Windhaven. Heading into 2012, we’re more aware than ever of the mercurial nature of life. Wicasta’s mother, Peggy Chaney, died on December 30th. That threw us for a loop and our spirits took a definite beating. But as you have to do when Life tosses you a curve ball, we’re getting ourselves together again, and we’re looking ahead to our future projects.

One of the first items on our agenda is to record our version of “Mark’s Song” by Eastmountainsouth. It’s a special song for us, especially given that it was played at the conclusion of Mama Peggy’s funeral. We’re going to record it as an homage to Wicasta’s mother. Partly because everyone who heard the song asked if it was Windhaven anyway. Make of that what you will.

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When we were going through our old Christmas tracks from 2010, we stumbled across a gem that had never been mixed down. “Breath Of Heaven” was shelved for various reasons. Wicasta wasn’t happy with his guitar parts. Victoria wasn’t happy with her vocal parts. In general, it seemed like there were other songs that worked better, and those are the ones we focused on. “Breath Of Heaven” fell to the wayside, and was largely forgotten, forever branded as a song that didn’t work.

What a difference a year and a little perspective can bring. While “Breath Of Heaven” still certainly has its imperfections, they now seem to us like human imperfections. Given the meaning behind the song, it’s oddly appropriate.

We hope you enjoy this song, our long lost child, and accept it as our Christmas gift to you and yours.

It seems surreal, and somehow wrong, to note that it’s been a year since we recorded our Christmas CD, A Windhaven Christmas. Yet here we are at the end of another year, with another Christmas fast approaching, and all the joy and love of the holiday upon us.

We originally recorded our Christmas CD as a gift for family and friends, but we were kind of late getting it finished last year. So nobody actually got it for Christmas. It was sort of a New Year’s present. We’re trying to do better this year.

We’ve learned a lot over the last year. We haven’t been as active musically as we thought were going to be, but the learning process has never stopped. It’s with that in mind that we’ve decided to re-mix and re-master last year’s CD and make it available for downloads this year. We’re stripping down a lot of the production and making it as unvarnished as possible. We’ve learned the hard way that “unvarnished” is how we sound best. Besides, whenever we get fancy and put too much Production on our music, we start feeling “uppity”. And if you know us, that ain’t us!

Anyway, we’ll be trotting out the newly re-mixed and re-mastered tracks between now and Christmas. We’ll eventually wind up with the same tracks we had last year. Only now they’ll sound a lot better. Stay tuned for information we’ll be posting on the tracks as they’re completed.

~ Wicasta and Victoria

Track Listing

1. Mary Did You Know
2. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
3. Frosty The Snowman
4. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
5. Silent Night
6. You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
7. Hallelujah
8. So This Is Christmas (War Is Over)

We haven’t forgotten about you, our lovelies. We’ve recently become involved in a new Internet radio station called Rhino On Air, and we’ve been busier than a one legged man in a butt kicken’ contest. The station is based out of the eclectic 600 block of Central Avenue in lovely downtown Saint Petersburg, Florida, and for the last six weeks or so, it’s pretty much eaten up all of our time, to the detriment of everything else.

Well, we’ve managed to pull back from those duties a bit and are beginning to refocus on Windhaven. One of the ways we’re going to do that is by making an executive decision and abusing Wicasta’s position as Indie Music Director of Programming at Rhino On Air.

Tune on tomorrow at 10 am to hear Windhaven on Wicasta’s radio show, Indie Frontline. You can listen in at; www.RhinoOnAir.com.

We’re moving to a new server as part of the Windhaven Network migration. While we don’t expect any major interruptions, there are always unforeseen problems when you’re dealing with new servers. If you do notice any downtime at all, please keep in mind that it will only be temporary. We’re expecting a few hiccups, but nothing major. Expect the best but plan for the worst and all that.

We hope you’ll like the changes we’re making. The new server is going to be much faster than the old one, and it’ll open up a lot of possibilities that we could never even imagine before. So here’s to hope and a brighter tomorrow. Or, as we’re fond of saying around here, “Ever upward!”

We’ll see you soon. And thanks ahead of time for your patience during our move.

We’ve decided to start pulling some of the songs from our recent release, When The Winds Blow, to re-mix and re-purpose for other projects. Therefore, it only makes sense to place the original, full length album on our web site as a free download. This is our way of saying “thank you” to everyone who has offered their support of Windhaven. You are the reason we are able to get up every morning and keep doing what we do.

We’ll be adding the download to our soon to be re-launched Windhaven Store, but for the moment you can download When The Winds Blow in mp3 format, with included cover artwork, from the links below. More information about the re-purposed songs will be posted soon.

Download Links

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• Download .TAR file - 41k

Ronald Hawkins and Donnie Patrick stood atop one of only a handful of small hills in the area. The former watched with no particular interest as the latter adjust a video camera atop its tripod and followed its line-of-sight down the hill to the short gate at the end of Tom Freeman’s driveway. Patrick’s gaze followed on up the driveway toward the Freeman house, which sat about a quarter of a mile farther up on the other side of Tom’s cornfields. Ronald Hawkins shook his head and nudged his friend. It was hot. Both men were drenched in sweat and, worst of all, smelled like it.

“What are we doing up here again?” Hawkins asked.

Donnie Patrick shrugged. “Someone’s been breaking Tom’s locks. Kids, I imagine. Been happening a lot around here. Tom wanted some security.”

Hawkins shook his head. “It couldn’t wait until tomorrow?”

“Apparently not,” Donnie muttered, tracing the line-of-sight again and making sure the camera lined up perfectly on the gate.

“Is there a light on the gate or something?” Hawkins asked, waving off a fly and wishing he was somewhere else. “How’s it going to pick up anything at night? That’s not a night-vision camera, is it?”

“It’s a plain old remote camera,” Donnie said flatly. Hawkins was annoying him. But he always did. “Look, I don’t ask too many questions. The man wanted a camera, and is paying extra to get it today. So the man gets a camera.”

“So,” Ronald said, looking doubtfully at the set-up, and thumped the camera for emphasis, knocking it a little to the right, “how does this thing work, anyway? I mean, way out here with no electricity or anything.”

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If you’re one of those fine folks who has practically given up computers for your SmartPhone or iPad (or other tablet), you might know what that image is to the left. That there is a QR code. With it, you can go straight to our new-fangled Windhaven Mobile web site just by scanning that QR code with your SmartPhone. Don’t know what that means? Well… it just means that you can access a version of this web site that’s friendly with your SmartPhone or tablet. We’ll be putting functions in place soon that will automatically detect if you’re visiting the web site with a SmartPhone and direct you to the right version.

If you don’t know what that QR code is or you don’t have a SmartPhone, don’t lose any sleep over it. We’re a little behind the times ourselves. This new Windhaven Mobile is just a quick and easy way for friends and fans of Windhaven to keep up with the band without having to come to the web site and wrestle with photos, backgrounds and videos that don’t quite work on their SmartPhones and tablets. Heck, we figured if you can’t beat ‘em, you might as well join ‘em.