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Mama Dragon, Tell me a Story

Show notes from Murphy’s Magic Mess, 26 January 2014. Listen every Sunday at 9am Central for two hours of new age and Pagan music from around the world.

Murf, Phil and *K8 had a grand time putting together a selection of music and stories for you this week. It was so fun that they are going to do it again in the very near future! Charles, from the Red Grail, stopped in about half way through the show. You’ll probably be hearing more of him on the show in the near future.

  1. Storyteller – Heather Alexander – Wanderlust
  2. Marble Falls – Cornell Kindernecht & Martin McCall – Dreamtime
  3. Higher Power – Phoenix Rising – Mystic Places
  4. Ameno Amen – Akasa – Portal
  5. Mellow – Ricky Kej – Shanti Orchestra
  6. Othello’s Dream – Andre Feriante – Novella-Ukulele Mosaique
  7. Antlered Crown and Standing Stone – Damh the Bard – (title)
  8. Hunter’s Moon* – Gale Perrigo – Never Again the Burning
  9. Curnunnos – Kate West – Elements of Chant
  10. Kerplunk* – Amy Friedman – Tell Me a Story 2: Animal Magic
  11. Possum’s Last Dance  – Blackmore’s Night – Shadow of the Moon
  12. Ceileidh and the Night – Clan na Gael – Keepers of the Wind
  13. Piper and the Puca* – Ralf Weihrauch Trio & Mick Fitzgerald – (title)
  14. King of the Fairies – Horslips – Dance Hall Sweetheart
  15. Dance of Bride – Jana Runnalls – Return to the Goddess
  16. The Bride of the Forest* – Steven Porsch – Radio Paganistan
  17. Ancient Circle – 2002 – A Word in the Wind Disc 1
  18. Elephant’s Reward* – Amy Friedman – Tell Me a Story 2: Animal Magic
  19. Elephant – Heather Dale – the Green Knight
  20. Elephant Power – Bhagavan Das & MC Yogi – (title)
  21. Ganesh and Karthik, the Golden Mango* – Phil
  22. Ganesh is Fresh – Jai Uttal & MC Yogi – Elephant Power

*Stories

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MMM: Pet Shop Minions

One of our long time listeners called us last week to share that she had recently had to put her cat down. A said day indeed. Many of us have been there. She asked if we could play some cat songs for her. Unfortunately it was tracking week and the show was all mapped out. So to make up for that we decided to do an entire show of pet and animal music. Turns out we are going to do at least two! Here is the play list from Sunday 12 January 2014 on Murphy’s Magic Mess on KZUM in Lincoln, NE.

  1. Pet Sounds – Beach Boys – (title)
  2. Hero’s Journey – Akasa – Portal
  3. The Dragon’s Breath – David Arkenstone – The Celtic Book of Days
  4. Eyes in the Forest – Andre Feriante – Novella Ukulele Mosaique
  5. Unicorns in the Forest – Gerald Jay Markoe – Ancient Ceremonies
  6. The Siamese Cat Song [From Lady and the Tramp, in the Style of Falla] – Scott Tennant – Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach
  7. Adad, Babylon – Get Tribal – God of Drum
  8. Lake Monster-Spooky Foggy Harbor – Dragon Ritual Drummers – the Epic: a Drum Opera
  9. Big Cat – Afro-Celt Sound System – Vol. 2: Release
  10. Spirit of the Eagle – Craig Olson – Beyond the Ceder Moon
  11. Frog & Turtle/To be a Human – Dovie Thomason & Ulali – Lessons from the Animal People
  12. Children’s Totem Chant – Spiral Rhythm – Roll of Thunder
  13. Girl with Lion’s Tail – SJ Tucker – Mischief
  14. Dance of the Rats – Emerald Rose – Archives for Ages to Come
  15. Lord of the Pounce – Marc Gunn – Irish Drinking Songs for Cat-Lovers
  16. Hot Frogs on the Loose – Fred Small – Everything Possible: Fred Small in Concert
  17. Tennessee Bird Walk – Various Artists – Kookie Kountry
  18. I go Like the Raven – Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer – Drum Hat Buddha
  19. Autumn Cats – Cynthia McQuillian – Bedlam Cats
  20. Dog – Bryan Bowers – By Heart
  21. Doggie Dance – Big Lou – Dogs Playing Polka
  22. Dead Gerbil Jam – Kenny Klein – Fairy Queen
  23. Anti-Gerbil Song – Dale Bacon – unreleased single
  24. House of Mama Dragon – SJ Tucker – Haphazzard
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The Mess Debuts Damh’s Wicker Man Single

Sunday the 5th of January brought what we believe to be a first on Murphy’s Magic Mess, the US debut of Damh the Bard’s newest single, The Wicker Man. Released to the public on the 3rd, to the best of our knowledge the Mess was the first terrestrial radio show to play this wonderful single from British Pagan/Druid recording artist Damh the Bard. You can listen to and purchase the single here.

I enjoyed teasing Murf and Kate, as well as the listeners, with hints at what was in store late in the show. Along with Damh’s single we also played a lot of new New Age music from artists like Kristin Amarie, Yang Yiing, Timothy Wenzel, Steven Vitali, Masako and Dan Chadburn. In the second half of the show we brought you new music from SJ Tucker, Wendy Rule and of course Damh the Bard. Along the way we played classic pieces from Inanna, Ubaka Hill and Lesiem. So much more. Check out the play list below for a full listing of the music.

Play List

Song Title Featured Artist Album
Wytches Chant ’98 Inkubus Sukkubus Away with the Fairies
The Other Side of Tristesse Masako Call of the Mountains
Mystery Dan Chadburn Nocturnes
Heaven, Human, Earth Yang Ying Elixir
A Sign of the Dragon Steven Vitali Language of the Soul
Winter in Shimla Kristin Amarie Notes from a Journey
The Bridge to Our Dreams Timothy Wenzel River Serene
Druids Trance Psicodreamics Ancient Wisdom
Rainbow People Inanna Skin and Bone
Ice Sorm Alexander James Adams Ember Days
Sahara Sunrise Sonic Tribe Sonic Tribe
Sistory Ubaka Hill Dance the Spiral Dance
Ave Fortuna Lesiem Mystic Spirit Voices [Intent City]
Carouselle Accolade Festivalia
Song of the Witches SJ Tucker Wonders
The Wicker Man Damh the Bard The Wicker Man
Seasons of the Witch FishBird FishBird
Salacious Claque Rosin Coven Sing Me Malaise

It was tracking again this week, so the play list reads differently than how I normally post it.

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A Messy End to 2013, MMM on KZUM

drunk_dragon_drunkon_by_sssilver_c-d32orug2013 is drawing to close, and has already done so here on Murphy’s Magic Mess. Sadly, *K8 was not in studio with us this morning. She was off celebrating the winter holidays with her family. But, while the *K8’s away….. Murf and Phil had a blast and infused the latter portion of the show with a great collection of songs about drinking. See the whole list of music below (and please, if you spot an error, let us know so we can fix it!).

You can find much of the music from the second half of the show for free download thanks to Pandora Celtica, SJ Tucker, Sharon Knight and dozens more wonderful musicians who got together and decided to give their fans 79 tracks of music as a holiday gift. This free download is available through Valentine’s Day 2014. We’d suggest that you download each track individually. May be time-consuming, but definitely a lot less time than it takes to download them all as a ZIP file. (Phil tried twice and both times the file came up as empty.) Here’s the download page.

Music from the Mess

  1. Buffy Sainte-Marie – God is Alive, Magic is Afoot – Up Where We Belong
  2. Forrest Smithson – Dreaming I (radio edit) – Dreaming Time
  3. Akasa – Return to Our Innocence – Portal
  4. Ricky Kej – Longing – Shanti Orchestra
  5. God of Drum – Donnar, Norse – Get Tribal
  6. Betsy Tinney – Light Heart – Release the Cello!
  7. Andre Feriante – Sweet Nadine IV – Novella, Ukulele Mosaique
  8. Cheshire Moon – Snow White, Red Road – Crowes & Consequences
  9. Alexander James Adams – Winter Tide – Winter Tide
  10. Burning Sky – Out from the Darkness – Enter the Earth
  11. Annbjorn Lien – January – Baba Yaga
  12. Cynthia McQuillin – Darkness – Witches Dance
  13. God of Drum – Loucetious, Gaelic – Get Tribal
  14. Corvus Corax, – Gimli – Gimli
  15. Tuatha Dea – Bagabi – Kith & Kin
  16. The Bringers – Banish Misfortune – Ramblers & Rovers
  17. Frank Remar & His Orchestra – Clydesdale Polka –
  18. Brobdignagian Bards – Jedi Drinking Song – Brobdignagian Fairy Tales
  19. Coven XIII – DRINK – Live
  20. Tom Smith – The Cthulhu Colada Song – In Concert: ConTemporal 2013
  21. Talis Kimberley – Xlibris – About Damn Time
  22. Professor Elemental – Cup of Brown Joy – Rebel Without Applause
  23. Whiskey Bards – Holiday Cheers – The Knight at the Inn
  24. Bob Rivers – Carol of the Bartenders – Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire
  25. Marc Gunn – I’ll Drink from Dusk Till Dawn – Happy Songs of Death
  26. Pandora Celtica – Santa Claus Got Eaten by the Kraken – On Thin Ice
  27. Elder Oldhands – Stuck in the Smoke Hole of Our Tipi
  28. North Sea Gas – Auld Lang Syne – Dark Island
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Selections from the Mess, 12/8/13

Wow, would you look at that. Been falling WAY behind on doing anything on here this winter. Time to do a little catch up.

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Michelle from the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca

Sunday 8 December 2013 on Murphy’s Magic Mess we were joined by Michelle from the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca. She was telling us and our listeners about the upcoming Yule celebration in which the Red Grail has partnered with Nebraska Heathens United. Should be a lot of fun!

The play list is based on the notes Phil entered live during the show. You can view the whole play list on Facebook. Kate was at the players, Murf on the boards, and Phil was trying to keep up on the play list. Any errors are Phil’s. If you have a correction to the play list, please comment here or on Facebook so we can fix it ASAP.

Play List

  1. Bill Leslie – Gaelic Soul – Scotland: Grace of the Wild
  2. Peter Sterling – A Mother’s Love – Twilight Serenade
  3. Patrick Landeza – Puanani Slack Key – Slack Key Huaka’i
  4. Peter Sterling – The Glass Globes – The Angels Gift
  5. Louis Colaiannia – Dancing Snowflakes – Origins
  6. Paul Spaeth – The Moment After – Redemption
  7. Paul Speer – Vortex – Ax Inferno
  8. Tom Carleno – Child’s Play – Perfect Imperfection
  9. Hox Vox – Jord – Mjollinar
  10. Anne Hill – Tree Wassail – Circle Round and Sing
  11. Brobdignagian Bards – Santa Lucia –
  12. Gaia Consort – Every Sacred Thing – Gaia Circles
  13. Annwn – The Cutty Wren –
  14. Blackmore’s Night – Winter – Winter Carols

Of the 29 tracks we played on the air, we only have permission to share 13 of them with you in this format. Jord was played as the “bed” of our conversation. We do hope to be able to add Hox Vox to our permissions list at some point in the future.

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A Snowin’ and a Blowin’ on the Mess

Murphy’s Magic Mess

Sunday 8 December 2013

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Michelle from the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca

ad bannerMichelle from the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca, joined us again this week. This time to talk with us about the Yule Party co-hosted by Nebraska Heathens United. The Yule celebration is Saturday 14 December 2013 at the Unitarian Church at 6300 A Street in Lincoln. Ritual is at 6pm with the Sumbel and Cauldron Luck to follow. Please arrive no later than 5:45 so that everyone can be ready for ritual. You are encouraged to bring a White Elephant gift, wrapped, a dish to share (and/or beverage) and your own feast gear.  Children welcome. As always, an old fashioned Yule tree decorating will occur. This year’s tree will be gifted to the Memory Unit at Summer’s Place (formerly Milder Manor).

Tune in live every Sunday 9am Central to hear the Mess on KZUM’s website or on 89.3FM in Lincoln. Also available on the TuneIn app.

You can hear an edited version of the show here. The music included in that edit is what we have podcast permission for.

 Play List

  1. Inkubus Sukubus – Wytches’ Chant ’98 – Away with the Faeries
  2. Brave Combo – Snowflake Reel – Sounds of the Hollow
  3. Bill Leslie – Gaelic Soul – Scotland: Grace of the Wild
  4. Peter Sterling – A Mother’s Love – Twilight Serenade
  5. Patrick Landeza – Puanani Slack Key – Slack Key Huaka’i
  6. Peter Sterling – The Glass Globes – The Angels Gift
  7. Louis Colaiannia – Dancing Snowflakes – Origins
  8. Paul Spaeth – The Moment After – Redemption
  9. Paul Speer – Vortex – Ax Inferno
  10. Celtic Woman – Nil Sen La – Songs from the Heart
  11. John McCutcheon – Winter Song – Winter Songs
  12. Tom Carleno – Child’s Play – Perfect Imperfection
  13. Hox Vox – Jord – Mjollinar
  14. Femme M’Ami – Circle Chant –
  15. Chorus of Life – Angel of Bells – Gaia’s Voice
  16. Anne Hill – Tree Wassail – Circle Round and Sing
  17. The Bringers – The Scandinavian Set – Ramblers and Rovers
  18. Brobdignagian Bard – Santa Lucia -Brobdignagian Fairy Tales
  19. The Dolmen – Stag Lord and Queen – Winter Solstice
  20. Gaia Consort – Every Sacred Thing – Gaia Circles
  21. Those Darn Accordians – Grodno in the Moonlight – Squeeze This
  22. The Dolmen – The Oak & Holly Kings –  Winter Solstice
  23. Jessica Radcliffe & Martin Simpson – The Holly Bears the Crown – Beautiful Darkness: Celebrating the Winter
  24. Annwn – The Cutty Wren –
  25. Blackmore’s Night – Winter – Winter Carols
  26. The Andrew Sisters (Jim Reeves) – The Merry Christmas Polka – Twelve Songs of Christmas
  27. Los Straitjackets – Sleigh Ride – Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets!
  28. Frank Remar – The Clydesdale Polka –
  29. – Abraham’s Lament –

There is some missing track information, as you can see. If you know the missing information, please leave us a comment or drop us a note on Facebook. We’d love to be able to give FULL information on these lists. Sometimes Murf’s computer, or Phil’s or *K8’s decides it doesn’t want to share all the information

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Veterans’ Day on the Mess

ad bannerHello, all. I’ve been rather remiss of late when it comes to sharing our play lists and other notes from the shows, both those on PMPChannel and the shows I am involved in on KZUM. We’ll see what we can do to rectify that.

Here is the playlist from Murphy’s Magic Mess on the 10th. It was our Veterans’s Day celebration, so much of the music fits into that theme. It was also one of our SoundExchange tracking weeks, so the format of the playlist is taking straight from the tracking spreadsheet. I had the pleasure of selecting the music, and these 20 tracks are just half of what I selected. We also had a nice little visit with Josh Bivins of UNL Pagan Life, the Pagan student group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Playlist

Song Title Featured Artist Album
Warrior Queen Kellianna Lady Moon
From Cradle to Coffin Isadar The Purple Heart
Flowers of Edinburgh Bill Leslie Scotland: Grace of the Wild
Dark Afternoon David Nevue Open Sky
Stone Circle Al Jewer & Andy Mitran Music of the Earth
Peaceful Warrior Chant Ruth Barrett The Year is a Dancing Woman: Vol. 1
Warrior’s Prayer Wil Kanim Firewater
Prayers for the Warriors Sophia Emergence
RED Alabaster & Blue Celia Red Alabaster & Blue
Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees) Dale Bacon Poems
Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees) Hugin the Bard Bardic Tales of the Mabinogian
The Bold Fenian Men Omnia Crone of War
Battle Hymn Faith and the Muse :Shoumei:
Coloured Ribbons & Tarnished Brass The Cundeez Coloured Ribbons and Tarnished Brass EP
The Battle of New Orleans Coyote Run Pleads the 5th
The Green Fields of France Dropkick Murphys The Warrior’s Code
I Am Warrior Monica Richards InfraWarrior
Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone Murphey’s Midnight Rounders Swede Hollow
Sink the Bismark Johnny Horton Battle of New Orleans
Don’t Call My Name In Battle Heather Alexander Songsmith: From Andre Norton’s Wit
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MMM: Freedom to Be (Who and What We Are)

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Notes for 29 September 2013

KZUM promotes diversity and the Mess is a prime example of that diversity. If you listen to KZUM often you know that Sundays are an interesting combination of programming. The Glorious Gospel is from 6-9am and immediately followed by Murphy’s Magic Mess from 9-11am. Two polar opposite programs back to back. There is very little, if any, tension between the programmers for these two shows.

To share in that diversity, Murf, *K8 and Phil decided to do a show filled with songs about diversity and songs that address the discrimination that unfortunately still exists in the world. You can see that by the variety of songs that were picked for the show.

  1. God is Alive, Magick is Afoot – Buffy Sainte-Marie – Illumination
  2. Ancient Paths – Stanton Lanier – Open Spaces
  3. Valhalla – Stephen DeRuby – Sacred Spaces
  4. Day of Celebration – James Sera – Reality of the Fantasy
  5. Goddess Rising – Paradiso & Rasamayi – Attuning to Oneness: the Harmonic Ascension
  6. Malaika – Wouter Kellerman – Mzansi
  7. Rag Klem – David Vito Gregoli – Primordial Sonics
  8. Burning Times – Charlie Murphy & Circle Magic Music – Circle
  9. By Our Own Fear – The Wyrd Sisters – Inside the Dreaming
  10. Scott & Jamie – Fred Small
  11. Homophobes in Robes – Romanovsky & Phillips – Let’s Flaunt It
  12.  I’m Not Homophobic – The Trestle Foote Faerie – Naughty in Pink
  13. The Heart is the Only Nation – Ruth Barrett & Cynthia Smith – The Heart is the Only Nation
  14. Silent No Longer – Emma’s Revolution – Roots, Rock and Revolution
  15. Feel the Colors – Ubaka Hill – Dance the Spiral Dance
  16. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Buffy Sainte-Marie – Up Where I Belong
  17. All My Relations – Ulali – Mahk Jchi
  18. We Won’t Wait Any Longer – Gwyddion Pennderwen – The Faerie Shaman
  19. Everyday Goddess – Celia – Breathe
  20. Burning Times – Spiral Dance – Magick
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MMM 7/14/13: Transitions

Murf's Blue DragonPost Star City Pride here in Lincoln, Ne. Phil over slept. He woke up 15 minutes into today’s Mess. Murf and *K8 were doing fine without him, but luckily they called to make sure he was on his way. If for no other reason than to arrive at the studio in time to do Lavender Hill. Even with him being late, he was able to get the whole play list entered into the Facebook notes for Murphy’s Magic Mess and get all situated for the long day at KZUM – he stayed to help engineer a special musical guest for The Wimmins Show.

Saturday was the marriage of two long time KZUM listeners, particularly of the Mess. And recently Murf lost a friend who was an English professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Much of today’s show was in dedication to all three of those wonderful people. A bit sad at times, but also a lot of fun at others.

The Music

(Playlist formatting note, *K8 enters information in a different order and Phil continued with that after his arrival. The order is Song title, Artist, CD.)

  1. Wytches’ Chant ’98 – Inkubus Sukkubus – Away with the Faeries
  2. Naked Love – Fiona Joy Hawkins – 600 Years in a Moment
  3. Beginning the Journey – Pure Heart Ensemble – Bliss of Being
  4. Dancing with Tinkerbell – Jami Sieber – Timeless
  5. The Blue Rose – Al Conti – the Blue Rose
  6. Undulant Sea – Meg Bowles – The Shimmering Land
  7. Dulcimer in G – Dan Kennedy – Lantern
  8. Massif Central Polka/Boy’s Lament for His Dragon/Polka Piquee
  9. Dancer and the Moon – Blackmore’s Night – Dancer and the Moon
  10. The Celtic Passage – Gerry Marchand – The Hooded Man
  11. the Lake of Innisfree – The Waterboys – An Appointment with Mr. Yeats
  12. Aeolis the Wind – Ruth Barrett & Cynthia Smith – The Heart is the Only Nation
  13. Handfasting Blessing – SJ Tucker – Blessings
  14. Love is Your Magic – Michelle Mays – The Promise
  15. Frey and Freya – T Thorn Coyle and Sharon Knight – Songs for the Strengthen Sun
  16. The Sweet Irlandaise – Alan Stivell – Again
  17. The Kirk  Douglas Ghoullie – North Sea Gas – The Caledonian Collection
  18. Bodhran – The Young Dubliners – Red
  19. Finn and the Old Man’s House – John Renbourn Robin & Williamson – The Wheel of Fortune
  20. The Hosting of the Sidhe – The Waterboys – An Appointment with Mr Yeats
  21. Danny Boy – Tuatha Dea – Tuatha Dea
  22. Salad of Doom – SJ Tucker
  23. What Up Your’s? – Barley Juice – The Barley Juice Collection
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Mess Play List for 051913

Murf's Blue DragonMichelle from the Red Grail visited Murf, Kate and Phil at the studio this morning. She brought in a lovely little blue dragon statue for Murf. Would seem that the fae had been playing around with Michelle’s figurine collection and knocked the dragon shelf off. The dragon was perfectly up right, but the shelf was on the floor as at an angle. Now the little dragon is sitting at Murf’s home along with all her other dragon friends.

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Hope you enjoy the attached videos.

  1. Wytches’ Chant ’98 – Inkubus Sukkubus – Away with the Fairies
  2. Stars Awaken – Catherine Marie Charlton – River Flow-Sanctuary
  3. Easy Living – Dan Kennedy – Intuition
  4. Infinite Love – Lia Scallon – The Luminous Pearl
  5. Glastonbury, VT – Masako – Masako
  6. The Merchant’s Rose – Al Conti – The Blue Rose
  7. Voice of the Tree – Lis Addison – Crown in the Sky
  8. Reflecting in the Glass – AeTopus – Angels and Machines
  9. Kokopelli – Terra Guitarra – Dragonfly
  10. Stepping into Paradise – Lisa Hilton – Getaway
  11. Ancestral Voyage – Sonic Tribe – (self)
  12. Silver Magick – Moonstruck – Moonstruck
  13. King of Elfland’s Daughter – Phoenyx – Keeper of the Flame
  14. Reel Slow – Paul Mounsky – Future Sounds of Gaeldom
  15. May Morning Dew – Sharon Knight – Song of the Sea 
  16. The Row in the Bower – Coyote Run – Coyote Run
  17. Elven Path – Nightwish – Angels Fall First 
  18. Wicked Spring – Tempest – Balance
  19. Tuath da Danaan – Dagda – Hibernia
  20. Bardic Voices – Sharon Knight – Incantation
  21. When a Ring’s around the Moon – Reel World String Band – Mountain Song: Reflections
  22. Elven Harper – Burlap Lute – Here Be Monsters
  23. Celtic Circle Dance – The Bringers – It’s About Time
  24. What’s Up Yours – Barleyjuice – The Barleyjuice Collection