Jhazingha-Khaliph
Jhazingha-Khaliph was a studio-recording clandestine African-American singing group that was primarily active from the years 2002 to 2020 with a few hiatuses. Starting with only four members in August 2002, eventually the group would turn their hobby into a multi-CD discography produced exclusively by themselves. The irony of this was that none of the four founding members were musicians. Eventually one of the four founding members departed the group and the group continued as a trio for years afterward. Then the group broke up in 2007 and the pastor of their church asked them to form a group called The Chronicles. The group reunited in 2008 and existed as two separate groups (Jhazingha-Khaliph and The Chronicles). The Chronicles then ended in 2009 and Jhazingha-Khaliph added a new member weeks later and existed once again as a quartet for eighteen months. In 2010 they reverted back to a trio and then disbanded months later in 2011. In 2015, two of the original members started the band again with a new member. There eventually became multiple different versions of Jhazingha-Khaliph as a flood of newer members came in adding more diversity to the look, sound and spirit of the band.
Jhazingha-Khaliph was set apart from many other bands in the fact that it's one of the few that legally exists in several different versions. They also divided their timeline into two eras; the Original Era from 2002-2010 and the New Era from 2011-2020. In the midst of all this, as the band Jhazingha-Khaliph, out of the twenty group albums they recorded, they have never sold one album. They ended on December 31, 2020.
Above are portraits of the sixteen members of Jhazingha-Khaliph.
Background Information
Also known as
Origin
Genres
Years active
Label
Members
The Chronicles
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Outsiders, Gospel, R&B, Hip-Hop, Electronica, Reggae, Avant Garde
2002-2007
2007-2009 as The Chronicles
2008-2011
2015-2020
Krazilu Records
Radish
Shatta
Jhazingha-Khaliph
Jhazingha-Khaliph (Version 2), L-R Muffy, Ce-Line and Pidget during photoshoot for Rebirth album (January 7, 2006)
THE ORIGINAL ERA
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 1: The Ce-Line, Muffy, Pidget, Lon lineup
On August 19, 2002 four friends, Muffy, Ce-Line, Pidget and Lon, got together and decided to make a music group. Previous to this date, the one known as Pidget was suffering from depression and had written songs as an outlet. Pidget and Muffy then began collaborating on some songs. Pidget would write one line of a song and then Muffy would write the next. Muffy tried to turn all of Pidget's negative verses into positive verses with the next line that she would write. Eventually a number named 'Myst' was written, the very first Jhazingha-Khaliph song. Muffy became pregnant and Pidget planned to go into the recording studio to record some songs he had written. Ce-Line had told Lon that Pidget was going into the studio and Lon suggested that they should become a group. Pidget then told Muffy and the band was born.
Purchasing an RT-122 Drum Machine from Music Makers, the four attempted to make beats for their first series of albums. As none of them were musicians and knew little to nothing about different notes and keys, they did excel at writing and wrote enough material to fill six albums with songs. They all chose code names to go by, and this would become one of the traditions of every future member of the band.
Muffy, Ce-Line, Pidget amd Lon were the four founding members of Jhazingha-Khaliph (Version 1).
Two months after the band was formed Muffy gave birth to her son. The band was loosely knit together as Muffy focused on her new family and Lon was off in the wind. Pidget then decided to go with his original idea of going into the studio by himself to record music. He wrote three solo albums and Ce-Line also wrote a solo album of his own. Eventually the band got back together and continued to write music for the albums. Rehearsals were pretty common at this point and the song 'Myst' was sung at every one. Two of Lon's sisters were also involved with songwriting and one adding additional vocals for the band. Every one of the four founding members named their own albums and selected songs from the pool to add to their CDs. Eventually, the band finally went to their first recording studio, Authority Records. Around this time Lon was departing from the group and the band had to rewrite most of their songs for the three remaining members. The song 'Go' was the first song they recorded in February of 2004. Although only Muffy, Ce-Line and Pidget went to the studio to record their first song, Lon was still a member of the band. Lon then left on February 8, 2004.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 2: The first Ce-Line, Muffy, Pidget lineup
The three remaining members went through the difficult process of recording as a trio. Sometimes members wouldn't show up for paid sessions in the studio and rehearsals were being blown off. Eventually a demo CD named Demo Mode was released in 2004 with the first five songs the band recorded on it. Aside from having holes in their songs that other members never filled in, throwing tantrums in the studio and being tired of each other, the band completed their first full album, which was double-disc, called The Conversion in 2005. However in the band's discography, The Conversion is listed as their second album behind Demo Mode. The band also started going to church and began to stop using profane language in their music. Although in the future the profanity returned, The Conversion was their only album with the Parental Advisory warning visible on the CD cover. Lon appeared on The Conversion album as well. The band's song 'Crazy' became a signature tune for them as it features all four members in their own lead parts. Pidget's sister also appeared in two songs on The Conversion album.
Jhazingha-Khaliph promoted themselves on websites and in October of 2005 inserted an entry in Wikipedia under the 'outsiders music' category. Wikipedia then deleted Jhazingha-Khaliph's page and a contributor for Wikipedia named howcheng assumed the band would fight relentlessly to have their page kept on there. Jhazingha-Khaliph posted a reply and voted for their own page to be deleted as they wanted nothing further to do with Wikipedia. Years later Jhazingha-Khaliph laughed as Wikipedia fell victim to its own devices and begged for donations from users due to a potential shut down.
Rebirth became the next recording project. The band was no longer going to the recording studio but now had their own studio named Krazilu Records. Rebirth became a slower R&B type album and it didn't appeal to the few fans the band now had. Nonetheless, Rebirth was placed for retail sale and never sold one copy. The song 'Don't Judge Me' from the album was randomly selected as a song to be played on a radio station in Montana. Ce-Line and Pidget released their solo albums The Missing Chapters and Nimbus Clouds as they waited for Muffy to complete parts in songs. Pidget argued that the band should have a new female member to put in parts in songs so it wouldn't look like Pidget and Ce-Line were doing the whole albums by themselves and Muffy was only featured in select songs. They argued that many people would think that Ce-Line and Pidget were trying to hog songs for themselves and not include Muffy on some when in reality Muffy kept cancelling sessions and avoiding them. The band then started production on multiple CDs at the same time, most specifically Hymns and There's Nothing New Under The Sun.
Hymns was one of the band's worst albums only featuring two group songs, 'Well I Know' and 'JESUS' and a series of individual acapella songs. There's Nothing New Under The Sun was slightly better as the title track was the most promoted song on that album. During this time the band became extremely visual as pictures of them popped up on multiple webpages. Photoshoots became one of the band's most signature trends.
Muffy began frequenting Jamaica and started recording her own solo album which ultimately became known as Broken Wing. Because Pidget and Ce-Line grew tired of asking Muffy to fill in her parts they decided to do a duet album while waiting for her. The album became Cityscape and Muffy did wind up in songs on the album after all. But due to tensions within the group on September 23, 2007 they disbanded.
(L-R) Version 2: Pidget, Ce-Line and Muffy September 15, 2006 in photo shoot for the There's Nothing New Under The Sun album.
The Chronicles: Felicia, Diron, Cary lineup
One month after the breakup of Jhazingha-Khaliph on October 29, 2007, Pidget was asked by the pastor of their church to form a gospel singing group with Muffy and Ce-Line. The three became known as The Chronicles and sung at many events under their real life birth names. In much the same way as Jhazingha-Khaliph, they put their own spin on current gospel songs and wrote some of their own. Felicia, who was Muffy, led 'Spirit of The Living GOD Fall Fresh On Me', Cary, who was Ce-Line, led 'He Saved Me' and Diron, who was Pidget, led 'At The Gate I Know'. Due to their work schedules, at times only two of the three would show up for performances often with one singing lead and the other singing background.
Tensions began to mount in this band as well. Felicia laid on the floor singing at the ceiling as Cary and Diron were rehearsing songs. Eventually, the group of friends tired of each other again. Unlike Jhazingha-Khaliph, The Chronicles never recorded themselves. During concerts their vocal projection was so loud they often didn't use a microphone.
(L-R) Diron, Felicia and Cary of The Chronicles in church. The picture was taken during their Jhazingha-Khaliph years on October 15, 2006 and attributed to both their Hymns album and The Chronicles.
In reference to gospel music, the members also recorded songs with their church choir for an album called Glad To Be in The Service. The album was recorded from various Sunday services in 2007 and had over forty songs, some which didn't have any of the band members on them. But the band's computer died destroying all the music that was on it and they lost all but eleven songs. The album was credited to Salem Baptist Church Choir.
As The Chronicles, the members used hand claps and thigh slaps to keep time with most of their songs. Some of the other songs they did were 'You Can't Beat GOD's Giving', 'You Can Still Pray in The USA', and 'The Spirit Of THE LORD is Here'. Ce-Line began producing a new group album called Trilogy in August of 2008 and reformed the group. For four and a half months from August 2008 to January 2009, The Chronicles and Jhazingha-Khaliph existed at the same time.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 2: The first Ce-Line, Muffy, Pidget lineup
Pidget was cranky all the time because he had undertaken an enormous Family Tree project that turned into an encyclopedia and didn't want to return to Jhazingha-Khaliph. Instead he asked Ce-Line and Muffy to find a new member. He was also angry because the members left his album project, There's Nothing New Under The Sun, unfinished but wanted him to cooperate with recording a brand new album. Pidget reluctantly came back and tried to destroy Trilogy by singing in children's voices on the album. Trilogy became the first album the band had with a song that had over 700 plays on their MySpace page, 'My Life'.
The band ran into issues with photoshoots as well. At first they got dressed up for pictures at a portrait studio in Sears and they were told they had to make an appointment. So they did their photoshoot in Sears on the escalator and in the display model beds. Then they went to the tanning salon and took pictures outside the one-way mirror window.
When it was time to go to the appointment Muffy's hair wasn't done and she attempted to pull out of going to the formal photo shoot. Pidget then attempted to call one of his friends that didn't even like taking pictures and make pretend she was Muffy. Because Sally Beauty Supply was still open, Muffy was able to combine two ponytails into a wig for the photoshoot.
The Chronicles ended on January 6, 2009 and Jhazingha-Khaliph was once again one single band. As Trilogy was being recorded in January of 2009, Ce-Line, Pidget and Muffy were actively looking for a fourth member to add to the band. It seemed that a new member would add a distinct new sound to the band as they already had over forty songs recorded that sounded similar.
(L-R) Version 2 Muffy, Ce-Line and Pidget on December 16, 2008.
Following in the footsteps of the Rebirth album, Trilogy was also placed for retail sale. And just like Rebirth, Trilogy didn't sell one single album. After this the three members were convinced that their music simply sucked and that they weren't going to try to sell any future albums anymore. Ce-Line mentioned that the Trilogy album cover was his favorite of all the bands album covers.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 3: The Ce-Line, Muffy, Apples, Pidget lineup
Pidget caught up with high school classmate, Apples, on MySpace and Apples joined the band on January 23, 2009. Apples met up with the band and recorded a Cheaters skit outside of IHOP that night and immediately afterwards began to spill out ideas for future skits. Apples first song that she recorded with the band was 'Lost And Found' produced by Frank Morgan. Her clear radio voice added a sound that the band hadn't had before. Apples then recorded a song 'Speak The Truth' for the Cityscape album.
Apples appeared on three albums, Cityscape, Synergy, and Muffy, Ce-Line, Apples, Pidget and veered more towards improvised speaking as she was a radio intern. Synergy and Muffy, Ce-Line, Apples, Pidget were the only albums released by the band that had all the members on every song during the Original Era (2002-2010).
Jhazingha-Khaliph had a Soundclick page which showed charts of songs in different genres for indie musicians. All four of the members of Version 3, Ce-Line, Pidget, Apples and Muffy, had solo songs that charted. Version 3 was also active when the band became the Number One Gospel artist in the Indie Category on MySpace. However, even in the midst of these successes, Version 3 was formed at a bad time concerning bands. MySpace was dying out and being replaced by Facebook. Soundclick also became less noteworthy.
Jhazingha-Khaliph fanwise never recovered the success they had during Version 2 in 2007. For one thing Jhazingha-Khaliph was non-active on social media for a whole year. After reuniting, when they returned, people were leaving MySpace for other social media platforms. There was also a falling out between Ce-Line, Pidget and Lon in 2009 that occurred on Facebook and MySpace. Irregardless, Apples became the new girl, never noticing any of the drama involved with the band, and the fifth person to become a member of Jhazingha-Khaliph. During this era, all four band members were recording their own solo albums as well. Apples was working two jobs and was a JuJu model but always made time to record. This version was the only one to name an album after its members; Muffy, Ce-Line, Apples, Pidget which they often call MCAP for short. This is also the last version of the band that consisted of four members.
(L-R) Version 3 clockwise from top Pidget, Ce-Line, Muffy and Apples on February 28, 2009.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 4: The second Ce-Line, Muffy, Pidget lineup
Apples left on September 26, 2010 and the band was a trio again. Ce-Line began to talk more and more about moving out of state which would have left Pidget and Muffy the only two members of the band. Although they were great friends, they didn't work well together in the studio.
Additionally, the band recorded a terrible Christmas CD that had Apples picture on the cover but Apples wasn't on one single song. In fact neither was the music. The Reason For The Season was decided by Muffy and Ce-Line to be an all acapella CD with each member singing two songs with no track behind their vocals. Pidget became furious because he produced beats and wrote Christmas songs that all became outtakes from the album. The album was so bad that the group named it their worst album ever and Muffy and Ce-Line later questioned why they made it an all acapella album.
(L-R) Version 4 Ce-Line, Muffy and Pidget in Christmas album photo shoot on November 7, 2009.
Even while Apples was still in the band, the albums There's Nothing New Under The Sun and Cityscape were still being recorded by Version 2. Muffy and Ce-Line had to go back and record parts in the old songs. Muffy would sit across the room in a chair yelling her verses instead of singing into the micropone, most specifically on the Cityscape song 'Hang On Sloopy'. Muffy would also record vocals and then accuse her bandmates of cutting her vocals and pasting them in other songs or writing bad lyrics for her when she wrote the lyrics herself.
The band released Jhazingha-Khaliph: The 2002-2010 Anthology with all the group and solo albums that the members recorded. The Anthology featured all the photo shoots and videos as well. The band planned to create a second anthology for the years 2011-2020 where they would get professional musicians to make the music instead of self producing their own music. Pidget's co-worker, Kerim, said he would produce beats for the band's first album.
The members also decided to bring in new members to keep the sound of the band constantly evolving. These new members would either be part of a quartet or part of a trio in case any of the members wanted to take a vacation from the band. To differentiate the two eras, the songs, albums and members that were part of the the First Anthology from 2002 to 2010 were referred to as the Original Era and the Original Members. The future songs, albums and members that would come between 2011 and 2020 were called the New Era and the New Members.
THE NEW ERA
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 4: The second Ce-Line, Muffy, Pidget lineup
At first, Version 4 of the band was the only version that recorded material in both the Original and the New Eras. On January 1, 2011 the transition was made. Muffy, Ce-Line and Pidget recorded the first album that none of the members produced the music to, The Kerim Klah Recordings. Initially, they found it difficult to write to professional music and it was hard to figure out when each member should come in. The Kerim Klah Recordings was also the first album recorded for the new 2011-2019 Anthology.
Yet there was a serious lack of motivation during this era. The members waited almost a year for the beats for the new album and when they finally got them they weren't excited about it anymore. Even the photoshoots that were done representing this era were terrible. Ce-Line put on a wrinkled shirt, Muffy wore a wig sideways and Pidget wore a shirt as a pair of pants over another pair of pants.
The members were now all in their thirties and they were venturing out into new areas. Ce-Line decided to move to Virginia and Muffy went into politics deciding to keep her political career separate from everything the band had done. Pidget began his own comic book series in 2009 and decided to more actively pursue it. They were getting tired of having to chase each other down to finish projects. Version 4 of Jhazingha-Khaliph ended on April 17, 2011. It only lasted for six and a half months. It was understood at that time that this would be the end of Jhazingha-Khaliph.
(L-R) Version 4 Ce-Line, Muffy and Pidget on October 4, 2010.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 8: Ce-Line, Foxfire, Pidget lineup
Four years went by without a word from any of the members concerning a second anthology. In fact The Kerim Klah Recordings were added as bonus tracks to the First Anthology. All three of the band members left their home church in 2011. In 2014, Muffy and Pidget met up to take their families to the Renaissance Fair. Muffy was now an elected official on the City Board and she never wished to mix politics and the band project. Pidget released The Age of The Drum Machine in 2015, a documentary of the band's first 96 songs recorded by Apples, Pidget, Lon, Muffy and Ce-Line that was over five hours long. Pidget then looked at one of the CDs from the 2002-2010 Anthology and noticed that the words said the 'First' Anthology on them. Because there was a 'first' anthology and their family members had it, he felt there had to be at least a 'second' one. But in truth, the band forgot they were even recording a second anthology.
Pidget called Ce-Line to remind him about the second anthology and that they were now five years behind. Pidget suggested forming multiple versions of the band and having each version record enough material to quickly fill a CD and asked Ce-Line if he wanted to be in every version of the band. Ce-Line said he wanted to participate. When Muffy was asked she said she wanted to change her name to 'Hidy'N' and planned to have her bandmates digitally alter her voice and hide behind different objects in photoshoots.
Pidget and Ce-Line were tired of Muffy's demands and began looking for a third member. At one point Muffy kept purposely messing up songs in recording sessions and later told the band not to play the songs. This became known as 'The Messy Period'. It was a stretch to say that they began looking for Black people born in 1979 to join their band since that's what all the other members had in common. Pidget placed ads on dating sites, Craigslist and social networking pages looking for members. Eventually he ran across his old high school classmate, Foxfire, and asked her to join as the third member. So on November 13, 2015, Ce-Line, Pidget and Foxfire became the first version of Jhazingha-Khaliph since 2011. The next day, Pidget and Apples began shopping for studio equipment for the 'New' Jhazingha-Khaliph and shooting videos.
(L-R) Jhazingha-Khaliph reformed in 2015 with the members Pidget, Foxfire and Ce-Line. Unfortunately this line-up didn't record anything and would later be reformed as Version 8.
Pidget, Ce-Line and even Muffy then began looking for other members for other versions of the band. There were 14 members added to Jhazingha-Khaliph between 2015 and 2016 that never recorded any material and left the project. During this period, Pidget and Ce-Line were writing for most of these versions of the band. Eventually none of the versions committed to the project and the mass amount of songs that were written for those members had to be recycled. The band was all over the place. Songs were being written for one version and then given to a second version when the first one didn't work out and then a third version when the second one didn't work out. Some versions had three members, some have four and one had five. Many potential members didn't want to do the project because they couldn't sing. However, Pidget told them none of the band has ever been able to sing they just do it for fun.
After doing research into using royalty-free beats for their project, Pidget did find out that there were terms and conditions where the person who makes the music can lay claim to the songs. To prevent getting the new members involved in anything controversial, Pidget decided to continue making his own beats for all the future versions of the band instead of using beats made by others. Ce-Line also produced his own beats for the band but began using professional beats later on his solo album and the group album Transitioning Thru The Nuances of Jhazingha-Khaliph.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 5: The Drex, Ce-Line Pidget lineup
Foxfire was busy with work and the band had nothing recorded by a new member for months. On April 11, 2016, Drex answered one of Pidget's Craigslist ads for a singer and came on board as the first successful new member to record any material. Ironically, Pidget began doing a music project in Princeton as an artist named Waspen on someone else's CD. Drex was also involved in the same project that they both ultimately left.
(L-R) Version 5 Pidget, Drex and Ce-Line on October 21, 2017.
Ce-Line who was in Virginia submitted the song 'Cry' to be recorded as one of the band's first singles. Drex was a live singer and became totally perplexed with the type of music the band presented him to sing. When he asked what genre it was, Pidget replied 'outsiders' because it didn't fit in with conventional music.
This became the first all-male version of the band and the version that recorded more material than the other future versions to come later. At this time, there were no numbers attributed to any of the versions of the band (i.e. version 4, version 8 etc.). Instead, because there were two original members and a new member, the versions were named after the new member. The 'Foxfire' Version and the 'Drex' Version were the only two versions of the band at this time. The band named their album Centigrade & Centipede and it was the first album recorded since The Kerim Klah Recordings in 2011.
Drex wanted to sell the Centigrade & Centipede album so it became the third band album, behind Rebirth and Trilogy, to be placed for retail sale. To date this album also has never sold one single copy.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 9: The Nulejun Pidget lineup
The Jhazingha-Khaliph members had issues going on in 2017. Foxfire went to Africa in the summer of 2017 and the band hadn't heard from her in months. With one version of the band successfully recording and two albums now complete, the band focused on creating a new version. Pidget reached out to Nulejun on November 13, 2016, to become the lead singer on their next album. Foxfire wound up leaving the band the next day on November 14, 2016 due to her work schedule. Because Ce-Line was participating a lot less in the band project and was all the way in Virginia and Nulejun was a serious musician in another state, Nulejun's version was placed on hold until a third member that lived more locally could be found.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 6: The Ce-Line, Pidget, Mad Ball lineup
On April 15, 2017, Pidget was helping his mother move into her new apartment and later his sister came down with her husband and they all went out to eat at the Olive Garden. One of Pidget's old friends was there and Pidget asked him if he wanted to help out with the band project. Mad Ball complained that he couldn't sing but eventually came on board as the new member in the 'Mad Ball' Version of the band. Mad Ball randomly spurted out verses on some of the songs, one of the most notable being 'Ya Broke Ass Bitch' on the song 'Carnival. He also kept saying 'Fuck T----' in some of the songs and 'his (T----'s) balls are orange like his face'. Mad Ball decided to name their album Chaos is Broken. During this time Pidget heard less and less from Ce-Line regarding the music project. Ce-Line had gotten a new job and still had songs from the Drex version that needed to be completed. Ce-Line was also recording his own solo album Forever Me.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 7: The Ce-Line, Pidget, NuMe lineup
NuMe had joked with Pidget about becoming a member of Jhazingha-Khaliph. Then on August 1, 2017 he showed up with the remote studio in his car and she became exactly that. NuMe became the first female member of Jhazingha-Khaliph to record any material in over five years. One song 'Living Cartoon' was recorded by this lineup until Pablo replaced Ce-Line months later.
The XEGhWƏR Option, Ce-Line departs, Muffy returns
Pidget was responsible for archiving all the band songs, lyrics, and media. Everytime a band line up changed he had to alter and mixdown songs, type and remove lyrics and recopywrite the songs each time. Pidget also made videos that the members could watch remotely to learn their parts in songs. Every time a member left and came in, the videos had to be retyped, redesigned and mixed down including the background collages of the videos. When Pidget hadn't heard from Ce-Line concerning the band for months, Pidget wondered if Ce-Line wanted out of the project too. However Ce-Line told Pidget he wanted to be in every version of the band so Pidget had to wait until Ce-Line was ready. In the meanwhile, Pidget began another music project called XEGhWƏR and had to decided to do three duet songs with each of his friends. Because Pidget wrote a lot of songs that were going to waste waiting for Jhazingha-Khaliph, he was going to take some of the Mad Ball and NuMe Recordings and make them part of XEGhWƏR since they only had two members in the songs anyway. Pidget had to recopywrite all the rest of his unfinished songs from the band name Jhazingha-Khaliph to the band name XEGhWƏR.
Pidget was planning to stay in both XEGhWƏR and Jhazingha-Khaliph but turn management of the Jhazingha-Khaliph project over to Ce-Line. Because Pidget couldn't use the same name in both projects he chose the name Dastheryx for the XEGhWƏR project. Then at one point Pidget didn't know if he instead would just go by the name XEGhWƏR and do the project all by himself. Ce-Line finally announced on September 14, 2017, Muffy's birthday, that he was exhausted and was stepping away from Jhazingha-Khaliph. Because Ce-Line left, Pidget got rid of the XEGhWƏR project as he now had to find replacements for Ce-Line in both the Mad Ball and the NuMe versions of the band. Pidget then had to recopywrite all the songs again out of the group name XEGhWƏR back to the group name Jhazingha-Khaliph.
Muffy came back to the band on the same day Ce-Line left, September 14, 2017, which also happened to be her birthday. However, Muffy didn't begin recording until November of that year. Muffy would have clashed vocally with NuMe so another male voice was needed for the NuMe version. Muffy also didn't understand anything Mad Ball was rambling about in his songs so someone with a background in role playing games was sought.
Adding on to this, the band started their Song of The Month series on Vimeo in August of 2017 to celebrate their anniversary (they were formed in August). 'Crazy' by Muffy, Lon, Ce-Line and Pidget was the song for August, and 'Jane' with Apples, Ce-Line, Pidget and Muffy was the song for September. Eventually the new members would start seeing their songs as songs of the month but Pidget had to complete their songs before those months came up.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 6: The Pidget, Mad Ball, Slim Soul lineup
At this time, Muffy, Mad Ball, NuMe and Pidget were all looking for a new member to add to both the Mad Ball and NuMe versions. Mad Ball and Pidget went to the county college and walked around the theater, the student center and the lounges looking for potential members but could not find anyone. Pidget once again posted a music ad on Craigslist. Slim Soul was the only response on September 19, 2007. Pidget and Mad Ball then told Slim Soul that he needed to do the photoshoots for the album with them.
(L-R) Version 6 Pidget, Slim Soul and Mad Ball on October 10, 2017.
Muffy was to be the photographer and Mad Ball had everyone clear their work schedules twice to meet for the photo shoot. On the day of the shoot Mad Ball was nowhere to be found. Therefore Pidget and Slim Soul had to do the shoot without Mad Ball.
Slim Soul played the harp in a few songs and added vocals in the others. Slim Soul then played a series of songs that he recorded as a rap artist before he began living off the grid. At this time Slim Soul was living on top of a mountain in a tent. Mad Ball had previously named their album Chaos is Broken but Pidget renamed the album XEGhWƏR when Mad Ball avoided the band after the no-show to the photo shoot. The XEGhWƏR logo he made up for the other music project was placed on the album cover of their album three times.
This was the first time the band existed with one original member and two new members. The deal was to name each of the new versions after the new member since Pidget and Ce-Line were going to be the other members. But now that there were two new members in a version it could no longer be called the 'Mad Ball Version'. So the band went all the way back to the first version of the band (Muffy, Ce-Line, Lon and Pidget in February of 2002) and started numbering every version of the band. Version 1 was the first version (Muffy, Ce-Line, Lon and Pidget). Version 2 was Muffy, Ce-Line and Pidget before Apples joined. Version 3 was Muffy, Ce-Line, Apples and Pidget. Version 4 was Muffy, Ce-Line and Pidget again after Apples left. Foxfire's version no longer existed so the Drex Version with Drex, Ce-Line and Pidget became Version 5. The version with Mad Ball, Pidget and Slim Soul became Version 6. In the future the 'NuMe' Version became Version 7, Foxfire returned and her version became Version 8, Nulejun's version, which was remembered later, became Version 9, and the last version with EnKogKneegró became Version 10.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 7: The Pidget, NuMe lineup
Version 7 of the band was the most difficult of all the versions to complete under the time restriction. While NuMe asked her friends, Pidget returned to the college scouting out members again. Pidget also got off his overnight job and sat in train stations looking for people, picked people up on the highway, asked co-workers and bosses and posted ads again. A few potential members came from the Rent a Friend website and Craigslist but after they heard the music they were never heard from again. Pidget and Muffy kept driving to a store across the state where they heard an employee singing one day to ask if he wanted to join the band but he was off work every day they showed up. On October 4, 2017 Pidget got a response from 'Pops Live' to be the new member. 'Pops Live' sat at the train station getting high for four hours and didn't know how to get on the train. Pidget and Muffy then went up to get him from the train station and he wanted to go to the liquor store and bought additional blunts and liquor. 'Pops Live' was asked to sing and he kept talking about how his girlfriend disrespected him by buying him donut sticks and tea. He assumed Muffy was the singer in the version that he was in and told her she sounded cute but it was actually NuMe on the album. 'Pops Live' then propositioned them for a threesome and kept talking about wanting flesh instead of focusing on the music. 'Pops Live' also cussed out the employees at 7-11 when he asked for a black lighter instead of a blue one and almost got in a fight with three guys. It was later revealed he probably thought they were doing a porn movie because the back of the car had studio lights. NuMe, who heard the story the same night, said she was glad he didn't join.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 8: The Pidget, Foxfire, Peachez lineup
People kept telling Pidget he had too many light-skinned people in the band for it to be representing a Black band. Pidget would then show them a list of over thirty people that said they would do the project and never showed up and then throw in 'Pops Live' as seasoning. Pidget and Foxfire caught up on November 4, 2017 and he told her of all the crazy adventures that were happening with the band. Foxfire then came back as a member and Pidget asked her should they ask one of their friends from school to be the third member. Pidget then saw Peachez twin sister Tasha at work and asked her if she wanted to do the project. Tasha said she didn't like taking pictures but that Peachez might be interested as Peachez always took selfies. Peachez agreed and became the third member on November 6, 2017.
Unfortunately on December 17, 2017, Foxfire fell and broke her foot. She was not able to do anything for several months as she had to recover. Foxfire eventually got well again and they all dressed in the same shirts promoting Peachez sister, Tasha's, business Creative Creations. This was the only time all the band members had the exact same shirt on in a photo shoot. Foxfire then recorded her parts on the album Trepidatious. There was a song, 'Descending Twilight', that Foxfire had to lead before they could add in other parts to the song. Peachez also revealed she was pregnant and expecting a baby boy. Version 8 eventually completed the band's last album, Trepidatious, in August of 2019.
(clockwise from the top) Version 8 Foxfire, Peachez, Pidget and Peachez twin sister Tasha on August 15, 2018.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 7: The Pidget, NuMe, Pablo lineup
On November 13, 2017, Pidget answered an ad Pablo posted on Craigslist and asked if he wanted to do the music project for version 7. Pablo said 'yeah as long as it's not any country shit or anything like that.' Pidget told him it wasn't country music but he didn't tell him the music was actually worse. At the train station Pidget kept contacting Pablo and he didn't answer back. Pidget assumed Pablo was chickening out and began asking homeless people at the train station if they wanted to be in the band. One man had one arm and Pidget offered him a hundred dollars to do the album and he said no. Once the homeless people all refused Pidget began asking other people waiting on trains and posted a Craigslist ad on his tablet. Pidget then stormed the train station saying 'one way or the other somebody from this damned train station is going to be on this album!'
(L-R) Version 7 NuMe and Pidget and Pidget and Pablo (2017)
Pablo finally called Pidget back and Pidget and Pablo met up. Pablo began writing his rap for the song 'The Slow' and the ipod died. Due to this Pablo heard none of the other songs before recording them. Pablo said the beats were corny and Pidget said 'You get what you get'. Eventually, after all the turmoil of filling this one slot in the band, the In The Evening ... album was finally completed.
They tried to plan photo shoots but the three of them all lived over two hours apart from each other and the weather was below zero every day they planned to shoot. Aside from Version 1, Version 7 is the only other lineup that never had a photoshoot.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 9: The Pidget, Nulejun, Muffy lineup
Nulejun's version finally began recording. Pidget named his version Version 9 for two reasons. The first is that he forgot Nulejun was in the band and remembered after naming Foxfire's version number eight. And the second was because Muffy was finally back so it wouldn't look like Pidget was kicking the original members out of the band after they came back. If Muffy and Nulejun were in version 6 instead of 9 it would appear as if Muffy left again.
Pidget had a friend named Gary who was asked to be the lead in a song called 'I Could Fall In Love With You' because his voice was higher than Pidget's. Gary bailed out and then months later Pidget heard Nulejun sing. Nulejun was then asked to be the lead singer. Because Ce-Line was in another state and he seemed to be getting exhausted with the Drex Project, Pidget had the feeling he wouldn't be able to do the Nulejun project.
Version 9 was the first version that had Muffy back as a member since Version 4. Nulejun and Muffy had given a Jamaican edge to Version 9's music that hadn't been heard since the Rebirth album over ten years ago.
(L-R) Version 9 Pidget, Nulejun and Muffy on November 29, 2017.
They were looking for amateur singers like themselves, but Muffy and Pidget didn't know that Nulejun was actually a professional singer. Muffy named their album Blind Spot and it was the fifteenth album released by the band. Meeting up with each other, Nulejun arrived hours late for the recording session and Muffy and Pidget arrived hours late for the photo shoots but the entire project was completed in less than 24 hours. Nulejun had begun working on a solo album since the recording of the Blind Spot album but decided instead to become a comedian.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 4: The second Ce-Line, Muffy, Pidget lineup
On April 24, 2018, Ce-Line came back to Jhazingha-Khaliph and for the first time in seven years the longest running members were reunited as Version 4. Ce-Line then announced a new album that the three would be on that was to be named by Muffy. Ce-Line gave Pidget dance music to write to for his lead songs and he and Muffy had R&B and Urban music. Version 4 is the only version of the band that has done two albums produced completely by people who were not part of the band; The Kerim Klah Recordings produced by Kerim Klah and Transitioning Thru The Nuances of Jhazingha-Khaliph produced by Beatdreamer.com.
Ce-Line suggested using baby pictures of the members for the album cover and was going to name the album Jhazingha-Khaliph after the band. However, because Muffy was told she could name the album she went through names like F.A.B and Jetsetters until settling on the longest name used so far for an album; Transitioning Thru The Nuances of Jhazingha-Khaliph.
Muffy had been singing at live events and now learned to co-exist her political life and her life in the band. She also founded her own non-profit called Proper Foundation. Ce-Line became a Director of Food and Nutrition and finally had a work schedule that allowed him to do music again as well as write his screenplays. And Pidget founded Middlesex, Monmouth & Ocean County Reach a program that helped others find housing, jobs and other resources in the community.
(L-R) Version 4 Ce-Line, Muffy and Pidget on October 22, 2017.
Although they were back together again, they were now almost forty and in different places in their lives. Their parents were getting older and they decided that Nuances would most likely be their last album. This version has Ce-Line singing higher parts than he normally did on previous albums.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 10: The EnKogKneegró, Muffy, Pidget lineup
(L-R) Version 10 Muffy, EnKogKneegró and Pidget on August 25, 2018.
Back in 2016, Pidget recorded a song called 'I Used To Live There' and wrote a series of songs for the album. The album was to be named My Blood Is Chlorophyll. Ce-Line previously told him he had no interest in doing the album so Pidget put out an ad for two new members to do an electronica based album. Pidget got one woman who sent a resume but never followed up on recording the album.
Muffy returned on September 14, 2017 and decided to do the songs on the album. Pidget then looked for the third member at work. He found a member in 4'11" EnKogKneegró, his co-worker and explained the band to her. EnKogKneegró was already a managed music artist working on her second album but she was amused with the history of the band.
EnKogKneegró became the fourteenth member of the band on August 6, 2018. She is known for telling lame jokes and joked around as they recorded the My Blood Is Chlorophyll album. She wanted the character she was to be mysterious and over-accessorized so she used flowers and combs to hide her face sometimes as well as wearing a barrage of additional items on her. The album was recorded over Muffy's house and a drunk man was singing on a karaoke machine at a party across the street for two hours. Pidget was so exhausted with the project that he didn't care anymore. The album was completed before the end of 2018 as Muffy added the rest of her parts in after her band mates.
The End Of Two Eras: The Jhazingha-Khaliph documentary
On July 4, 2019, Jhazingha-Khaliph announced on Facebook that they would be producing a documentary with interviews from the members. Because their timeline is divided into the Original Era and the New Era the documentary was named The End Of Two Eras.
Gaining an immediate interest from most of the band members, they began setting up interviews to talk about the history and their experiences with the band. On April 24, 2020, after failing to find a host for the documentary, the cartoon character Eyaspoon was created and hosted the project.
Announcement video for the Jhazingha-Khaliph documentary The End Of Two Eras.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 1: The Ce-Line, Lon, Muffy, Pidget lineup
A week after the announcement of the documentary, on July 14, 2019, the four founding members of the band, Muffy, Ce-Line, Lon and Pidget reunited as Version 1. This became the first group of four members in almost ten years and the first quartet of the New Era.
Version 1 began recording the album JK Presents 'Pioneer' The Album. Although The Conversion is credited to them, Lon was only a member of the recording of the first song "Go".
After reuniting and exhibiting a spurt of creativity, Jhazingha-Khaliph had finally come full circle. The same members that started the band in their twenties were now ending the band in their forties. Also notable was the fact that they didn't use any of the two hundred songs they wrote when they started the band but decided to write all new material. At this time every member of the band, except Apples, was a current member of Jhazingha-Khaliph.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 3: The Ce-Line, Apples, Muffy, Pidget lineup
On August 27, 2019, Apples returned to Jhazingha-Khaliph and Version 3 was reformed again. Every member of the band was now back in Jhazingha-Khaliph.
Jhazingha-Khaliph almost ends early
Due to the members not being able to schedule any recording sessions and photo shoots because of life altering events, the band project brought a stressful atmosphere to all the members. Because emergencies kept popping up, members were cancelling photoshoots and recording sessions that the other members had taken time off work and cancelled their own events for. After Trepidatious was recorded, no other songs the band started were completed. There were also unfinished songs from The Kerim Klah Recordings, XEGhWƏR, Transitioning Thru The Nuances of Jhazingha-Khaliph, JK Presents 'Pioneer' The Album, and older songs that were never assigned to an album.
The older unassigned songs and some newer songs were to be done by the last two members of Jhazingha-Khaliph. However, they never got the chance to record any material because a third member couldn't be found for their versions, either. D_Smilezs who joined on August 16, 2019 and SAGA who joined on August 30, 2019 were all ready to do their photo shoots and record and would have rounded out the band as having sixteen total members parallel to the sixteen letters in the band's name. But none of the other 13 members were in a position to become the third member of either version due to issues in their own lives. Also D_Smilezs and SAGA clashed in terms of their own styles and personalities so the three of them could not be one version.
SAGA and Pidget went ahead with doing their photo shoot with two members in absence of a third member on September 28, 2019. Pidget had placed ads and received the same attitudes from people that he had trying to form the other versions in previous years. Within hours, Pidget deleted the all the ads looking for new members and had scheduled to end every version of Jhazingha-Khaliph on October 4, 2019. The band's original end date was supposed to be December 31, 2020 as was being counted down every day on the band's website. Pidget did not announce the end of the band on the band's social media page because no one was following the band anyway. Pidget also did not tell any of the band members that he was ending the band. By October 2, 2019 both D_Smilezs and SAGA were no longer committed to Jhazingha-Khaliph. Due to Lon recording for the band's newest album Pidget decided not to end the band after all until the original date of December 31, 2020.
Jhazingha-Khaliph's Facebook page was deactivated on January 29, 2020 due to a lack of interest in the project. In the last post it was mentioned that 2020 was the band's last year. It was later reactivated as the Jhazingha-Khaliph Memorial Page and posted a memorial video highlighting every member, version and album.
Jhazingha-Khaliph Version 11: The last lineup
SAGA returned to Jhazingha-Khaliph on October 24, 2019. Because D_Smilezs did not return, SAGA's version became Version 11. Two weeks later on November 8, 2019, Radish became the third member of Version 11. Pidget did his photoshoot with Radish on November 16, 2019. SAGA was invited to the shoot but he didn't come.
SAGA began talking less and less about the band and Pidget suspected he was trying to get out. Pidget was making T-shirts for the founding members (Muffy, Lon, Ce-Line and himself) to wear in tribute to all the band members. Because SAGA wasn't making clear that he wanted to continue with the band and kept making excuses to record Pidget asked him what was going on. Specifically he needed to know if SAGA was to be featured on the T-shirt which would also effect whether Radish would appear on the shirt.
SAGA finally left the band again on December 8, 2019, leaving Pidget in the same situation he has been in with every one of the new versions; looking for a replacement. Again looking for sixteen members in reference to the sixteen letters in the band's name, Jhazingha-Khaliph was now at fifteen members.
Pidget had made vulgar music on this particular album to fit SAGA's style that included a lot of profanity. Radish had recorded her vocals so the songs were two thirds done. Pidget again asked around and put up ads that other rival musicians kept flagging. Now that many people were more familiar with Jhazingha-Khaliph, no one wanted any part of SAGA's album. Pidget couldn't even get any local church choir members to do the album in reference to the profanity on it.
Pidget had placed ads on Backstage, Craigslist, and Twine desperate to get out of the band. Everyone that replied or applied to become the third member never showed up. People were applying from as far away as Texas, Florida and Scotland and Pidget told them he wasn't paying for their way to New Jersey to record a piece-of-shit album.
Snack-Size Ricky who incited a riot in the lunchroom at Pidget's job said he would be the third member. However, eventually even he didn't appear for the photo shoots that they planned. After they were rained out with a downpour on the third photo shoot they gave up. Additionally, the coronavirus epidemic was in full swing across the world.
The coronavirus epidemic played a big part in the recurring issues plaguing Version 11. People were afraid to meet people they didn't know due to the coronavirus. Parks and public places were closed so photo shoots eventually became impossible to do.
People were losing their jobs due to the coronavirus shutdowns. Because Pidget was an essential employee he still had to work. He offered to pay people who weren't working to finish the band's last album but time and time again people refused. It was no longer known whether this should still be considered a band version or to make it a completely different independent one-time music project like XEGhWƏR was going to be when Ce-Line left.
This unfinished version also severely halted the production of the band's documentary The End Of Two Eras because the script couldn't be completed. Eventually, even the cartoon host, Eyaspoon was omitted. The Jhazingha-Khaliph anthology cover also couldn't be completed until it was official who was in the band. If a third person could never be found, Version 10 would have to be the last version and the unfinished Version 11 wouldn't have been Jhazingha-Khaliph but rather another music project.
Portraits of almost Jhazingha-Khaliph members D_Smilezs and SAGA. D_Smilezs was in Version 11 and SAGA was in Version 12.
(L-R) Pidget and Radish of Version 11 on November 16, 2019.
Finally on May 19, 2020 Shatta, one of Pidget's co-workers, became the sixteenth and last member of Jhazingha-Khaliph. Shatta was a former reggae artist from Brooklyn. Radish was wary of catching the coronavirus so she didn't want to do photoshoots. On July 3, 2020, in the midst of George Floyd protests, a venemous Presidential series of scandals and racism, a depleted job economy, a worldwide epidemic and an election coming up, Shatta and Pidget completed the band's twentieth album.
Shatta suggested the music be recorded professionally and Pidget replied he didn't give much of a fuck anymore he wanted it all done and over with. This now gave each decade of the band a total of ten albums.
Pidget named the album Calcified People because he said his personality has become like a stone concerning others. "People didn't have work and I offered to pay them to do this project and they turned down money but still complained about how they didn't have money. Professional singers and artists considered themselves too good to be affiliated with us. Jealous musicians kept flagging my posts to find a new member because they were being petty. So yes, it's like my heart calcified. I no longer stood and applauded when professional singers sang and I turned away from them. I no longer believed people really did music for fun anymore. I no longer gave my attention to people who didn't do shit but complain about how they don't have anything but never put forth any effort. This is Jhazingha-Khaliph, NOT what you think a band should be but what WE made it," Pidget ranted.
Pidget hastily ended the album and was glad to move on with the documentary once again.
(L-R) Shatta and Pidget of Version 11 on July 3, 2020.
The Final Moments Of Jhazingha-Khaliph
(L-R) Founding members of the band, also known as Version 1: Pidget, Muffy, Ce-Line & Lon on December 21, 2019.
Founding members Lon, Muffy and Pidget reunited for the first time since 2003 at the funeral of Lon's father in 2019. Ce-Line was unable to make the trip up from Virginia. However, all four reunited on December 21, 2019 for a small photo shoot and video wearing Jhazingha-Khaliph T-shirts honoring the band. Apples had planned to start her own Advice Vlog and had continued to host many events. She then became a reality TV star on the series 'Learn To Marry Me' which debuted on Zingo TV on August 19, 2019. Foxfire had turned toward blogging her own project based on her own playlist. Drex was a lead singer in a cover band called The Basementeers and another band called Blue Flicker that did original music. Pablo had twin sons and released his solo album Even Odds Beyond The Scale: Vol. 1-3 and most recently had a daughter. Pablo was incarcerated the last year of the band. NuMe had started going to college and started a new job. Nulejun was actively promoting events at his club in Willingboro, New Jersey and became a comedian. Later he returned to recording solo music. Lon was now the mother of a son and a daughter. Muffy recently ran for two official positions in local government and continued to act as the President of National Action Network Asbury Park Chapter. Pidget after leaving returned to a career path in warehouse work, illustration, animation and storytelling and graphic design and publishing and began three self-run businesses. Ce-Line was still writing his screenplay, finished his solo album Forever Me, purchased a house and began working on a new solo album. EnKogKneegró was still recording her second solo album, Side B, in Texas and had a business where she sold baked goods, caramels and syrups. Slim Soul moved off the mountain and bought property in a valley where he started a farm but eventually went back to the mountain again in 2019. Peachez gave birth to a son in April of 2019. And Mad Ball was trying to start his own campaign games in the D20 system as well as film his own documentary on Dungeons & Dragons.
The band began a gradual dissolve and most members recorded no material the last year. The coronavirus epidemic put different burdens on each member concerning work, finances and family life. October 17, 2020 was the last time a full version of the band got together. That was Version 1 with founders Muffy, Pidget, Ce-Line and Lon, all wearing masks due to the coronavirus epidemic. After only making about five posts on Facebook the whole year of 2020, the band gave its last post on November 24, 2020 and never logged on again, permanently archiving the page. The band then ended a month later on December 31, 2020 in complete silence. It could be summed up in a poem interpreted as 'The Evening.'
"The sun broke onto the horizon on August 19, 2002, was cloaked by clouds on September 23, 2007, was unhidden by the clouds on August 17, 2008, then eclipsed by the moon on April 17, 2011 to be set free again years later on November 13, 2015. It descended towards the earth's horizon again giving way to an evening sky that beheld sixteen distant stars named Muffy, Ce-Line, Drex, Lon, Pablo, Peachez, Radish, Mad Ball, EnKogKneegró, NuMe, Apples, Slim Soul, Nulejun, Shatta, Pidget and Foxfire. And when the sun went down those fourteen stars that made the constellation Jhazingha-Khaliph began to become obscure and faint. These stars began to travel north, east and south as the sun became fainter and continued west. The stars had broken free of the need for the sun and the sun continued to go alone its own way.
The original sun was born a rebellious character that went through it's demo mode when it first broke on the horizon. It was accompanied by four stars named Lon, Ce-line, Muffy and Pidget. Not long after there was a conversion of energy that brought the sun into THE LIGHT OF THE LORD. It began a rebirth of positive and flourishing energy, yet there was still nothing new under the sun. Propelled to elevated heights on the hymns of GOD, the sun brightened the cityscape of every dweller. And then the clouds came and hid the sun's light. This would be the first of a trilogy of times the sun would not be seen. After being hidden almost a year the sun broke out from the clouds and it's synergy quickly changed. At that time there were four different stars Muffy, Ce-line, Apples, and Pidget that had fused with it changing the energy. The earth's season had changed. Now things were more commercial and clarion; there was an audic quality. And then the season had changed again although there was no clear reason for the season. The sun was no longer the original being it was before but had somehow become new. It provided a sound that gradually changed through these years and was captured by a technician who sealed the last words before an eclipse into the Kerim Klah Recordings. The eclipse hid the sun for years as the sun continued to try to progress across the sky; and the stars did not remember the sun. The earth became darker and cooler in the midst of the very small radiating of heat and light. Then the sun was finally free of the obstructing moon and the earth began to heat up again. The centigrade produced centipedes, and all types of other bugs that had hid underground for warmth. There came a rival sun named Xeghwer that attempted to take the sun's place but it was eventually defeated and cast back out into space. Afterwards the sun became exhausted and began to turn reddish and colder. This is what began to happen in the evening. After being challenged by the rogue sun that came out of a blind spot, the sun attempted to struggle and fight for its light to continue to be seen. It transtionioned through nuances that offered only slight differences to its presence. But the people of the sun became as plants and used the dying last warmth of the sun's rays to grow as if their blood became chlorophyll. This is how the people began to transition. They began to feel trepidatious, thinking the sun was going to leave them permanently. They were now under twelve stars, some foreign and some there from the beginning, that accompanied the sun's path through this bizarre series of events. But then, all hope had been reborn when the pioneer star, Lon, had returned to the constellation and the sun blazed like never before. A comet named SAGA came through oddly changing the scene and then left. Then the other star Apples returned and the sun had finally come full circle. And two new stars Radish and Shatta had appeared in the sky extending the sun's power beyond the pinacle. The people rejoiced. But then they began to forget the sun's struggles to light their world and they ignored the sun. They became as calcified people with hearts of stone. The sun exhausted all its power and was now blood red. Some of the stars became brighter and began to shine and form their own universes. Other stars became fainter and became as dust and voyaged toward oblivion. And other stars remained the same. Yet all sixteen stars moved away from the sun and each other in every other direction. The evening had finally come. Mist invaded the sky and distracted the sun's people from viewing it's last light. The mist had overtaken the sun and the sun gave up fighting. Even in its last fleck of light the sun struggled somehow to be seen and heard. The cycle had ended with an unquiet fissure into nothing."
-The Evening
The End Of Two Eras documentary has been placed on hiatus for anywhere between two to several years.
Criticism
Jhazingha-Khaliph has received criticism for having a non-urban sound with the beats they have used in a lot of their music, for having members not singing on key, and for trying too hard to be noticed. Some of the band's music resembled gaming music. Jhazingha-Khaliph is sometimes not officially recognized as a real band because they do not gig or have any outside interviews. The band was also advised to pick a lead singer for an audience to get adjusted to their sound but they refused stating they are all equals.
Achievements
Jhazingha-Khaliph was one of the longest running African-American bands in New Jersey and recorded twenty group albums. It was one of few groups that successfully managed their entire project internally, including websites, social media, graphic design, copywriting, writing their own lyrics, recording their own vocals, producing most of their own music, photography, album covers and so forth. Jhazingha-Khaliph, even with all their history, still identified as a clandestine band.
Original Era and New Era
Time chart representing the Original and New Eras of the band.
Band Versions
Band Discography
Group Albums
ALBUM NAME: Demo Mode
YEAR: 2004
MEMBERS: Muffy, Ce-Line, Pidget
VERSION: Two
ALBUM NAME: The Conversion
YEAR: 2005
MEMBERS: Muffy, Lon, Pidget,
Ce-Line
VERSION: One
ALBUM NAME: Rebirth
YEAR: 2006
MEMBERS: Pidget, Ce-Line, Muffy
VERSION: Two
ALBUM NAME: There's Nothing New Under The Sun
YEAR: 2009
MEMBERS: Ce-Line, Pidget, Muffy
VERSION: Two
ALBUM NAME: Hymns
YEAR: 2010
MEMBERS: Muffy, Pidget, Ce-Line
VERSION: Two
ALBUM NAME: Cityscape
YEAR: 2010
MEMBERS: Apples, Pidget, Muffy, Ce-Line
VERSION: Three
ALBUM NAME: Trilogy
YEAR: 2009
MEMBERS: Pidget, Ce-Line, Muffy
VERSION: Two
ALBUM NAME: Synergy
YEAR: 2010
MEMBERS: Muffy, Pidget, Apples, Ce-Line
VERSION: Three
ALBUM NAME: Muffy, Ce-Line, Apples, Pidget
YEAR: 2010
MEMBERS: Muffy, Apples, Ce-Line, Pidget
VERSION: Three
ALBUM NAME: The Reason For The Season
YEAR: 2010
MEMBERS: Ce-Line, Muffy, Pidget
VERSION: Four
ALBUM NAME: XEGhWƏR
YEAR: 2018
MEMBERS: Slim Soul, Mad Ball, Pidget
VERSION: Six
ALBUM NAME: In The Evening ...
YEAR: 2018
MEMBERS: Pablo, NuMe, Pidget
VERSION: Seven
ALBUM NAME: The Kerim Klah Recordings
YEAR: 2011
MEMBERS: Muffy, Ce-Line, Pidget
VERSION: Four
ALBUM NAME: Centigrade & Centipede
YEAR: 2017
MEMBERS: Drex, Ce-Line, Pidget
VERSION: Five
ALBUM NAME: Blind Spot
YEAR: 2018
MEMBERS: Pidget, Nulejun, Muffy
VERSION: Nine
ALBUM NAME: Transitioning Thru The Nuances of Jhazingha-Khaliph
YEAR: 2019
MEMBERS: Ce-Line, Muffy, Pidget
VERSION: Four
ALBUM NAME: My Blood is Chlorophyll
YEAR: 2019
MEMBERS: Pidget, EnKogKneegró, Muffy
VERSION: Ten
ALBUM NAME: Trepidatious
YEAR: 2019
MEMBERS: Pidget, Foxfire, Peachez
VERSION: Eight
ALBUM NAME: JK Presents 'Pioneer' The Album
YEAR: 2020
MEMBERS: Lon, Ce-Line, Pidget, Muffy
VERSION: One
ALBUM NAME: Calcified People
YEAR: 2020
MEMBERS: Shatta, Pidget, Radish
VERSION: Eleven
Compilation Albums
ALBUM NAME: Reflections
YEAR: 2010
MEMBERS: Muffy, Ce-Line, Lon, Pidget, Apples
VERSIONS: One, Two, Three
ALBUM NAME: .scrambled
YEAR: 2020
MEMBERS: Ce-Line, Foxfire, Peachez, Lon, Pablo, Apples, EnKogKneegró, Drex, Mad Ball, Pidget, Muffy, Slim Soul, NuMe, Nulejun, Shatta, Radish
VERSIONS: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven
Anthologies
ALBUM NAME: Jhazingha-Khaliph The 2002-2010 Anthology
YEAR: 2011
MEMBERS: Muffy, Ce-Line, Pidget, Apples, Lon
VERSIONS: One, Two, Three
Documentaries
DOCUMENTARY NAME: The Age Of The Drum Machine
YEAR: 2015
MEMBERS: Muffy, Ce-Line, Pidget, Apples, Lon
VERSIONS: One, Two, Three, Four
DOCUMENTARY NAME: The End Of Two Eras
YEAR: UNKNOWN
MEMBERS: Muffy, Ce-Line, Pidget, Apples, Lon, NuMe, Nulejun, EnKogKneegró, Drex, Slim Soul, Peachez, Mad Ball, Pablo, Foxfire, Radish, Shatta
VERSIONS: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven