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Jason W. McKinzie (aka mascodagama) is one half of the musical duo The Americana Lovebirds (formerly Yes Now IS). Jason follows in the tradition of tunesmiths throughout time immemorial, dipping his musical cup gratefully into the river of those who have come before him. Genres are no obstacle for this composer. Walls are meant for climbing, and the illusory walls of art are no exception.



Jason has been involved in the writing and recording of music since his earliest days. A Hoosier by birth, surrounded by the beautiful corn fields of Indiana, into a family whose roots in that area span generations, Jason has always been attracted to a simple and natural way of life. Son of a career Navy man, Jason got plenty of world-traveling under his belt at an early age. As a boy, piling into the VW bus in the mountains of Spain with his parents and older brother might lead to a trip through Portugal or France, depending on the season. It was this early exposure to the Old World that inspired in Jason a world-consciousness that persists to this day.



Jason has released many albums covering a variety of musical genres. Notable among them are 2008's “inexpugnable“, an experiment in electronica covering the arc of human life, and 2009's ‘PUTRIS‘, a ‘return-to-roots’ punk album featuring 14 original head-bashing anthems with subject matter ranging from horror movie plots to the last thoughts of a convicted serial killer on death row.



Throughout 2010 Jason has been focusing on his band The Americana Lovebirds, featuring partner Amy Celeste Young-Beard. These lovebirds are currently delving and burrowing into the roots of American music to create a timeless amalgam with their own inimitable twist.







A short film directed and scored by Mascodagama.



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"Never destroy when you can create."

- Brian Wilson



"Thus the rapture young Mascodagama derived from overcoming gravity was akin to that of artistic revelation in the sense utterly and naturally unknown to the innocents of critical appraisal, the social-scene commentators, the moralists, the idea-mongers and so forth."

- Vladimir Nabokov



"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.



"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.



"We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "



- Marianne Williamson



"Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome."

- George Harrison