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John Fischer (born 1947) is a Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

author, singer, songwriter, and speaker. He is one of the credited founders of Jesus music

Jesus music

Jesus music, known as gospel beat music in the United Kingdom, is a style of Christian music which originated on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This musical genre developed in parallel to the Jesus movement...

and was a Senior Writer with PurposeDrivenLife.com.

Personal

John Fischer was born in Pasadena, California

Pasadena, California

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in 1947. He graduated from Wheaton College

Wheaton College (Illinois)

Wheaton College is a private, evangelical Protestant liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago in the United States...

in 1969. He studied for the Christian ministry

Christian ministry

In Christianity, ministry is an activity carried out by Christians to express or spread their faith. 2003's Encyclopedia of Christianity defines it as "carrying forth Christ's mission in the world", indicating that it is "conferred on each Christian in baptism." It is performed by all Christians...

at the Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...

under Ray Stedman

Ray Stedman

Raymond Charles Stedman was an evangelical Christian pastor, and author. He was a long-time pastor of Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California, and author of several books.-Early life:...

.

He released his first Christian album The Cold Cathedral in 1969 (a few months before Larry Norman

Larry Norman

Larry David Norman was an American Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer, who worked with Christian rock music...

's Upon This Rock). This is considered the first American contemporary Christian album. Fischer indicates on his website:

To this day, I still don't know how it happened. I got a phone call from this catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

recording company. They'd heard I was writing contemporary religious music and would I send them a tape. I went on to record these songs in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

immediately upon graduating from Wheaton College
Wheaton College (Illinois)
Wheaton College is a private, evangelical Protestant liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago in the United States...

in June 1969. The Catholics were eager to fill a demand for contemporary music that was coming from the growing popularity of folk masses around the country--a kind of precursor to the Jesus movement. The producer and musicians on this album were all from the Old Towne School of Folk Music in Chicago. With this release in the fall of '69, I think I beat Larry Norman
Larry Norman
Larry David Norman was an American Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer, who worked with Christian rock music...

's "Upon This Rock" by about three months. On some lists, this is the first American contemporary Christian album. Jonathan and Charles beat us all in England.

His third album, Still Life, contains the now-classic track "All Day Song (Love Him in the Morning)" (which has been covered by many people including Debby Kerner & Ernie Rettino

Debby Kerner & Ernie Rettino

Debby Kerner & Ernie Rettino are American best known as the creators of the characters from the Psalty the Singing Song Book in the Kids' Praise! series of Christian children's musical albums. Together, they have also created Solomon the Supersonic Salamander, and Hi-Tops .Debby started off as a...

). It was engineered by Keith Olsen

Keith Olsen

Keith Olsen is one of the most prolific and successful music producers in the industry.-Career:With over 120 albums produced netting a 1 in 4 Gold or better ratio, of which more than 24 are Platinum or better, and more than 14 are multi-Platinum, sales from Keith Olsen’s work exceeds 110 million...

while he was also working on the Buckingham Nicks

Buckingham Nicks

Buckingham Nicks is a 10-track LP by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. It was recorded in 1973 and was instrumental in both Nicks and Buckingham later joining Fleetwood Mac. A reissue of the album was done in 1976...

album by Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks

Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums...

and Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and a live album...

, at the same time.

The Cold Cathedral (1969)

Words and Music by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

Produced

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

by Ray Tate

Arranged by Ray Tate and Al Porth

"The Cold Cathedral"
"The Road of Life"
"See the Lilies"
"Born to Die"
"Open Up"
"Got To Shout About It" (words by John Fischer, music by Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy is the name of:* Dick Murphy , American retired Republican politician* Richard Murphy , Scottish architect* Richard Murphy , Irish poet...

)
"Alleluia"
"Lamentations"
"Look All Around You"
"Hard Feeling to Explain"
"No Vacancy"
"The Lord's Prayer"

Have You Seen Jesus My Lord? (1970)

Words and Music by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

Produced by James E. Schaefer

Arranged by Clark Gassman

"Jesus My Lord"
"Jesus Is My Song"
"Way of All Flesh"
"Jesus in Me"
"The Word" (keyboards by Larry Knechtel
Larry Knechtel
Lawrence William "Larry" Knechtel was an American keyboard player and bassist, best known for his work as a session musician with such artists as Simon & Garfunkel, Duane Eddy, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & the Papas, The Partridge Family, The Doors, and Elvis Presley, and as a member of the 1970s...

)
"Salvation Song"
"Sons of Cain"
"Love" (words by Kristina Linder, music by Bing Stolzenburg and John Fischer)
"Light"
"Trust and Obey" (original words by John H. Sammis
John H. Sammis
John H. Sammis was the writer of the Christian hymn Trust and Obey with Townerin 1887. Sammis was born in 1846, in Brooklyn, New York and died in 1919 in Los Angeles, California. A businessman who became a Presbyterian minister, John Sammis also wrote the hymn He's a Friend of Mine...

, original music by Daniel B. Towner
Daniel B. Towner
Daniel Brink Towner was a composer who held a Doctorate of music, and used his abilities to develop the music to several Christian hymns which are still popular today.-Studies:...

)
"Death Is Swallowed Up" (Words by John Fischer, Music by Saint-Saëns)

Still Life (1974)

All songs written by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

Produced by John Fischer and Dan Collins

Arranged by Clark Gassman

Engineered by Keith Olsen

Keith Olsen

"Still Life"
"Open Your Heart"
"Simple Pleasures"
"Setting of the Sun"
"I'm Human"
"Matthew's Blues"
"Brightest and Best" (words by Reginald Heber
Reginald Heber
Reginald Heber was the Church of England's Bishop of Calcutta who is now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer.-Life:Heber was born at Malpas in Cheshire...

, music by John Fischer)
"All Day Song (Love Him in the Morning)"
"We Are All Together"
"Rest In Him"

The New Covenant (A Musical) (1974)

All songs written by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

Produced by John Fischer and Dan Collins

Arranged by Clark Gassman

"Let It Be Free"
"What Has Gone Wrong"
"Evangelical Veil Productions"
"Ways and Means" (words and music by Dale Annis)
"Alleluia"
"The Way of Peace"
"I'm a Vessel"
"We All Get Hurt" (words and music by Dale Annis)
"We Have Died"
"Rest In Him"
"Alleluia (Reprise)"

Naphtali (1976)

All songs written by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

Produced by Dan Collins

Arranged by Clark Gassman

"Naphtali" (based on Genesis 49:21)
"We Are His Workmanship" (based on Ephesians 2:10)
"Don't Veil the Door"
"Work Out the Life" (based on Philippians 2:12-15)
"Naphtali Arise"
"Angel's Song"
"Mary and Joseph" (words and music by Pam Mark Hall
Pam Mark Hall
Pam Mark Hall is a Christian singer, songwriter, musician and producer.-Career:Cutting her musical teeth on the renaissance explosion of pop, folk and rock in the 1960’s, Pam Mark Hall began playing piano at age 6. By age 9, she was playing guitar, writing songs and performing as a soloist...

)
"Song for the Good Times"
"Live in the Power"
"Arise My Beloved" (based on Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon
The Song of Songs of Solomon, commonly referred to as Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, is a book of the Hebrew Bible—one of the megillot —found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim...

2:10-12)

Inside (1977)

All songs written by John Fischer.

Produced by Dan Collins

String arrangements by Jim Stipech

"Inside"
"I've Been Hiding" (additional guitars by Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets...

)
"Tunnel of Trial" (additional vocals by Nellie Ward and Jamie Owens-Collins)
"A New Day"
"The Sanctuary"
"Two Years"
"Master Potter"
"Righteous Man"
"With Him"
"The Lamp"

Johnny's Cafe (1979)

Johnny's Cafe (1979) LS-5757. All songs written by John Fischer.

Produced by Dan Collins

Arranged by Clark Gassman

Engineered by Jack Joseph Puig

Jack Joseph Puig

Jack Joseph Puig is a Grammy Award-winning music engineer and producer with a long track record of successful productions, including the mid-1990s production of Tonic. Puig also worked with Hole, Jellyfish, The Black Crowes, John Mayer, Weezer, Fiona Apple, Green Day, The Counting Crows, No Doubt,...

Drum

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s by David Kemper

David Kemper

David Kemper is a drummer. He was a long-time member of both the Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Dylan's band . He was with the Jerry Garcia Band for the last eleven years of Garcia's life...

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

s by Don Menza

Don Menza

Don Menza is an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, session musician, and jazz educator noted for his many contributions to American jazz and big band music. -Early years:...

Additional guitar

Guitar

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s by Rick Vito

Rick Vito

Rick Vito is a guitarist and singer. He was part of the band Fleetwood Mac between 1987 and 1991.Vito and Billy Burnette took over as guitarists after Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac....

"Johnny's Cafe"
"One Lane Road"
"Nothin' in this World"
"Circle of Blessing"
"Talking Faces"
"Pawn in the Game"
"Right On Time"
"Hard Line"
"Blessed Is the Man"
"Midnight on Main Street"

Self Portrait (1985)

Self Portrait (1985) LS-5865. Mastered by Steve Hall. A Light Records "Best of" compilation featuring tracks from Inside, Still Life, Naphtali, and Johnny's Cafe. All songs written by John Fischer:

"Righteous Man"
"All Day Song"
"We Are His Workmanship"
"Johnny's Cafe"
"Still Life"
"Angel's Song"
"Blessed"
"Inside"
"Arise, My Beloved"

Myrrh Records / Word Records

These releases were on the Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records

Myrrh Records, also known as Myrrh Worship, is a Christian music record label. According to Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, the label was instrumental in developing a popular following for Contemporary Christian music as the label that first published music by Barry McGuire, 2nd Chapter of...

/ Word Records

Word Records

Word Records is a Christian record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a division of Word Entertainment , which, itself is co-owned by Warner Music Group and Curb Records...

label.

Dark Horse (1982)

Dark Horse (1982) 701-6713-385 (MSB 6713). All songs written by John Fischer.

Produced and engineered by Jack Joseph Puig

Jack Joseph Puig

Arranged by John Hobbs

"Dark Horse"
"Beggar"
"Only a Few"
"Falling in Love (With My Wife)"
"Christopher's Toes"
"Nobody Wants to Die"
"Losing is Winning" (with additional vocals by Leslie "Sam" Phillips)
"Roses On Wednesday"
"Looking Straight On"
"Leaving It All to You"

Valualbum (1982)

Some copies of Dark Horse came with a bonus LP titles Valualbum, a various artist promo LP. This is one of the only compilation albums that John Fischer ever appeared on. Featuring the songs:

"Lean On Him" by Kenny Marks
Kenny Marks
Kenny Marks, born Kenneth Michael Marks, November 6, 1950, Detroit Michigan, has performed on 6 of the 7 continents world-wide over his music career....

written by Keith Thomas
Keith Thomas
Keith Thomas may refer to:*Keith Thomas , Australian rules footballer*Keith Thomas , Welsh historian*Keith Thomas , Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter*Keith Thomas , Saxophonist, writer and producer...
"Bethlehem Morning" by Morris Chapman
Morris Chapman
Morris H. Chapman was elected president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee on 1 October 1992....

written by Morris Chapman
Morris Chapman
Morris H. Chapman was elected president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee on 1 October 1992....
"Cover Me" by Andrew Culverwell
Andrew Culverwell
Andrew Culverwell is an English Contemporary Christian music artist and songwriter who recorded in the 1970s and 1980s. He is probably best remembered for writing the Christmas song "Come On Ring Those Bells", performed in 1977 by Evie...

written by Andrew Culverwell
Andrew Culverwell
Andrew Culverwell is an English Contemporary Christian music artist and songwriter who recorded in the 1970s and 1980s. He is probably best remembered for writing the Christmas song "Come On Ring Those Bells", performed in 1977 by Evie...
"Dark Horse" by John Fischer written by John Fischer
John Fischer
- Musicians :* John Fischer , Belgian/American jazz pianist, composer electronic painter and sculptor born in 1930* John Fischer , singer/songwriter who is one of the credited founders of Jesus music and Senior Writer with PurposeDrivenLife.com* John Fischer, co-founder of the hard rock band Full...
"Dreamer's Dream" by Pete Carlson written by Pete & Cindy Carlson
"Farther and Higher" by Steve Camp
Steve Camp
Steven J. Camp is a prominent American Dove Award and Grammy Award-nominated contemporary Christian music artist with an adult contemporary pop sound. He was very popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, where he has sold more than a million albums, who also has written or co-written 21 number one...

written by Keith Thomas
Keith Thomas
Keith Thomas may refer to:*Keith Thomas , Australian rules footballer*Keith Thomas , Welsh historian*Keith Thomas , Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter*Keith Thomas , Saxophonist, writer and producer...
"The Best" by Dion DiMucci
Dion DiMucci
Dion Francis DiMucci , better known as Dion, is an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, pop oldies music, rock and R&B styles....

written by John Fowler
John Fowler
John Fowler was a Jeffersonian Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Kentucky in the United States Congress....
"Cornerstone" by Leon Patillo
Leon Patillo
Leon Patillo is an American Contemporary Christian singer and evangelist.-Career:Patillo's first musical endeavor was with the group Creation, later called Leon's Creation. Formed in the late 1960s, Creation was a funk group similar in style and composition to Sly & the Family Stone; they were...

written by Leon Patillo
Leon Patillo
Leon Patillo is an American Contemporary Christian singer and evangelist.-Career:Patillo's first musical endeavor was with the group Creation, later called Leon's Creation. Formed in the late 1960s, Creation was a funk group similar in style and composition to Sly & the Family Stone; they were...
"Sing Your Praise to the Lord" by Amy Grant
Amy Grant
Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...

written by Richard Mullins
"I Was Made to Love You" by Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur is a folk-blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s...

written by Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

and Syretta Wright
"They Would Love Him Down In Shreveport" by Mercy River Boys written by Bobby Braddock
Bobby Braddock
Robert Valentine Braddock is an American country music songwriter and record producer. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Braddock has contributed numerous hit songs during more than 40 years in the industry, including 13 number-one hit...

Between the Answers (1985)

Between the Answers (1985) 701-6788-385. All songs written by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

Produced by Dan Russell, Victor LeComer, and John Fischer

Arranged by Dan Russell and Victor LeComer

"Rejoice!"
"Lord of the Dance" (words by Sydney Carter
Sydney Carter
Sydney Bertram Carter was an English poet, songwriter, folk musician, born in Camden Town, London. He is best known for the song "Lord of the Dance" , set to the tune of the American Shaker song "Simple Gifts", and the song "The Crow on the Cradle", adapted from an old folk song...

, music from the Shaker folk song "Simple Gifts
Simple Gifts
"Simple Gifts" is a Shaker song written and composed in 1848 by Elder Joseph Brackett.It has endured many inaccurate descriptions. Though often classified as an anonymous Shaker hymn or as a work song, it is better classified as a dance song.-Lyrics:...

" by Joseph Brackett
Joseph Brackett
Joseph Brackett Jr. , an American songwriter and Elder of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing , was born in Cumberland, Maine, and died in the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake at New Gloucester, Maine.Brackett is known as the author of the Shaker dancing song "Simple...

)
"Move On It" (words by John Fischer, music by John Fischer and Dan Russell)
"Heartbeat" (words by John Fischer and Dan Cunningham
Dan Cunningham
Dan Cunningam was an actor who made few screen appearances but was a noted professional stage actor, performing at Eichstätt. In 1955, he appeared in Laurence Olivier's Richard III.-References:**...

, music by John Fischer, Dan Cunningham and Dan Russell)
"It's Still Life"
"Between the Answers" (words and music by John Fischer and Dan Cunningham)
"Every Tear" (words by John Fischer, music by Dan Russell)
"Long Way Back" (words by John Fischer, music by John Fischer and Dan Russell)
"All We Need"

Casual Crimes (1986)

Casual Crimes (1986) 701-6833-380. All songs written by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

Produced by Dan Russell and Victor LeComer

Arranged by Dan Russell and Victor LeComer

"Time for You" (additional acoustic guitar by Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets...

)
"All Fall Down" (words and music by John Fischer and Dan Russell)
"I Will Still Love You" (words by John Fischer, music by John Fischer, Dan Russell and Victor LeComer)
"A Changed Man"
"Everything Matters" (words and music by John Fischer and Dan Russell)
"Dance!" (words and music by John Fischer and Dan Russell) (additional vocals by Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith
Michael Whitaker Smith is a Billboard top ten Billboard Hot 100 recording artist and Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian music. Smith also has achieved a considerable amount of...

)
"24 Green Street"
"For a Good Man"
"We Have Won This War" (words and music by John Fischer, Dan Russell, and Joel Russell)
"Until Then" (words and music by Dan Russell)

Wide Angle (1992)

All songs written by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

Produced and Engineered by Mark Heard

Mark Heard

John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....

"Wide Angle" (words and music by John Fischer and Rob Frazier)
"Too Many Preachers"
"The Only Way"
"It All Comes Down To This"
"A Witness"
"O Rocker" (words by Marti Fischer, music by John Fischer)
"Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt"
"Cup of Cold Water" (background vocals by Julie Miller
Julie Miller
Julie Miller is a songwriter, singer, and recording artist currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. She married Buddy Miller in 1981...

)
"Where Did They Go?"
"By My Spirit"
"Down to the Water"
"Not the Only One"

Some Folks' World (1999)

Some Folks' World (SPR-0601) is a re-release of Wide Angle with three new tracks. All songs written by John Fischer unless otherwise noted.

New tracks Produced by David Miner

David Miner (musician)

David Miner , sometimes credited as David Minor, is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as a member of Grace Slick's The Great Society in the 1960s. He actually co-founded The Great Society along with Jerry, Darby, and Grace Slick as well as Bard Du Pont, in the sense...

"Some Folks' World" (new song) (words and music by Mark Heard)
"Wide Angle" (words and music by John Fischer and Rob Frazier)

"Down to the Water"
"Vanquard" (new song)
"Pass It Around" (new song)
"Too Many Preachers"
"The Only Way"
"It All Comes Down To This"
"A Witness"
"O Rocker" (words by Marti Fischer, music by John Fischer)
"Not the Only One"
"Cup of Cold Water" (background vocals by Julie Miller
Julie Miller
Julie Miller is a songwriter, singer, and recording artist currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. She married Buddy Miller in 1981...

)
"Where Did They Go?"
"By My Spirit"
"Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt"

First Love (1998)

First Love
First Love: a Historic Gathering of Jesus Music Pioneers
First Love is a documentary that looks back into the Jesus Music of the 1970s. In 1997, a group of Jesus Music pioneers gathered in southern California for a memorable 3 days of music and fellowship . The event was both recorded and filmed, and was released in a 2-CD/2-DVD set simply titled “First...

(1998) Various Artists

"All Day Song"
"Jesus Loves Even Me"

Fiction

Dark Horse (1983, Multnomah Press)

Companion to his album of the same name released the previous year.

Saint Ben (1993, Bethany House Publishers)
The Saints' and Angels' Song (1994, Bethany House Publishers)
Ashes On The Wind (1999, Bethany House Publishers)

Non-fiction

Real Christians Dance (1988, Bethany House Publishers
True Believers Ask Why (1989, Bethany House Publishers)
Making Real What I Already Believe (1991, Bethany House Publishers)
12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee (Like Me) (2000, Bethany House Publishers)
On A Hill Too Far Away (1994, Servant Publishers) (re-released by Bethany House Publishers in 2001)
Be Thou My Vision (1995, Servant Publishers)
What On Earth Are We Doing? - (1997, Servant Publishers)
Fearless Faith (2002, Harvest House)
"Confessions of a Caffeinated Christian: Wide awake and not alone" (2005, Tyndale)

Magazines, pamphlets, and websites

A Single Person's Identity - (1973, pamphlet, Discovery Publishing)
CCM Magazine
CCM Magazine
CCM Magazine was a monthly magazine published by Salem Publishing, a division of Salem Communications. It was first published in July 1978, and it has always been a Christian music magazine. On January 16, 2008, Salem announced that the April 2008 issue would be the final printed issue of the...

, regular monthly article contributor since 1996
Daily devotionals for PurposeDrivenLife.com

Links and references

[ Allmusic page]
John Fischer's official website
The Cold Cathedral information on official website
Still Life information on official website

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