Archive for November, 2007

It’s all about communication!

{ November 30, 2007 @ 8:19 pm } · { about me }
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I have so many good discussions these days. About music, about life, about love. Just had a very good conversation this lunchtime with one of my working mates. We talked about relationships and loyality and it’s always very interesting what people think about it. I mean, I have various experience, I really tried a lot so far. People usually think, that if they just find the one and only right person, it would be so easy to be faithful – but it’s definitely not! I personally think, after all I have been through, that it’s a decision. You take the decision to be faithful or not. It has nothing to do with your partner, actually. You can be so deeply in love and still cheat on someone. And it’s not weakness. It’s just the way you want to have it. If you tell him or her, it’s another discussion point. I think, most people are not aware that it’s up to them to decide. Or maybe, they are not mature enough, whatever. Ok, I agree that it’s pretty hard to find people who would accept an open relationship. But this is another point anyway…

Anyway. Anyway! In the afternoon, I had another discussion with the other producer. I just stepped into his office by chance (or not?) and he showed me some records and even gave me one that he thinks I will like. So have to listen to this one and give you my opinion. (I have to confess that I just forgot the name of the band and the record, will have to find it in my messy handbag…) :-D

So all in all, a nice day of work and chat and now I have to leave to meet other people to get ideas for songs. What should I write about if I don’t live???

back to the 80ies

{ November 29, 2007 @ 11:35 pm } · { about my music }
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Singing lesson. Ächz. Still a little bit sore from my flu, but much better than on the weekend. But it was good, I had to take back a bit and not force my voice too much, what I tend to do coz of too much energy.

Pretty nice mixture today: I wanted to work on the Evanescence song again, Bring me to life and then we started to discuss about Céline’s new album and so I felt the urge to sing “Alone” – it’s just so nice with only piano! We worked pretty much on this high Ges which is just so, so, so damn high. But after twenty times of trying to find the right place for it, it worked. I love it so much to go tone by tone, sing one part so many times in different versions until it really sounds as I want it to sound. It’s so much fun – you start to feel your body, the little differences where you sing a tone, how you pronounce it, which vocal you use. Somehow, your body and soul just flow and become one – very spiritual! ;-)

And then, all of a sudden, my singing teacher brought up Whitney Houston’s “All the man that I need” which is just her very, very best song and I love it so much. So we worked on that as well and so fast, two hours are gone!

When I arrived, I was a little bit too early and the girl before me was still there and so I had a little private concert. She has a really nice voice, but was so totally not into the song she sang – didn’t even know the lyrics by heart. There I realised again how important it is to sing the same songs over and over again – it takes so long to get really into a song. I think, there are songs I already sang more than 500 times. I have to take my own songs into my practise-repertoire as well – it will help me to develop them, I think…

How medicine can save a whole weekend, lead you in temptation and throw you back to reality again

{ November 26, 2007 @ 7:06 pm } · { about me }
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What a gorgeous, f*** gorgeous weekend!!! Ok, I was not very in the mood when a friend of mine and me departed on Saturday afternoon to my old almost-hometown Interlaken. Still sick and tired and depressing weather and not at all in the mood to go out and party and see tons of old friends.

But anyway, we departed, almost one hour too late but still got there in time. Must have been the fast car of my friend ;-)

There, we went out to eat at my ex’s restaurant, where he actually cooked for me the very, very first time without even knowing it. Ha! Got him… Of course, the food was gorgeous, we even tasted some frisons de bison (never heard of that? Sure not, it’s our invention – after dinner, the barmaid brought us some cookies and even explained how they are called but no one understood actually and as it was something French, we just decided to name it “frison de bison”, sounded somehow similar to what she said… :-D ) and of course we drank some nice wine and as I was really not feeling too good, I was so happy that everyone was so tired and we decided not to go out anymore but to go back home around midnight. Thank god (I’m getting old ;-) )! So, no old friends but I made some new ones instead which is fine too!

After a terrible night sleeping in two minute intervals in a bed which was not mine in a home which was not mine with a head I wished it was not mine in a room which was way too hot, I got up pretty exhausted and not feeling any better – but we absolutely wanted to go skiing and so I just swallowed half of a pharmacy and was back in shape all of a sudden!

It was really the best season start ever: nice snow, nice weather and no one on the slopes! And it’s only November! We have the whole season ahead! I love it!

So Sunday evening, back down in the valley, we got another drink and then drove back home and I was even too tired to sing along the songs on the radio and pharmacy’s impact was vanishing and so I just came home, fell in my bed nearly dead and had a long night of strange dreams and coughing but at least in my own bed. And today, I am bleeding hardly for what I did yesterday as coughing and throat aching got even worse due to lack of recovery – but I would do it again!

And now, my voice nearly disappeared and I don’t know why people always want to talk to me when I can’t and shouldn’t! I just hope that it will not break down completely as I’ll have another singing lesson on Thursday and I don’t want to miss that one…

I think I have to stop now and go to bed, as friends are already asking me what drugs I took – I seem to have a strange look these days… :-D

Ds Schwamedinge isch Chilbi und ds Schwamedinge isch Tanz…

{ November 24, 2007 @ 1:31 pm } · { music in general }
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I’m somehow sick again. It always hits my throat what influences my voice as well. Aaaaah, have to be quite, which is very hard to do!

But apart from this, I’m just discovering Evanescence as a good tool to practice. Their songs are always up high and you have to push quite hard to keep the level up there, as well with the volume and so it gets quite exhausting after a while (what might explain why she is such a bad, bad live-singer – she barely hits a tone…). My favourite is defenitely “Bring me to life” which has this beautiful up-beat she uses to take a tiny lil bit too late…

So, for all those of you who ask themselves how to get to know the right people, it’s very easy:

I have been asked to connect on Skype by someone I didn’t know and normally, I just refuse. Do NOT ask me, why I didn’t this time. Must have been intuition somehow. It turned out that he confused me with another one and by the way we found out that he knows a bunch of people I used to know in the past and that he is a cameraman doing also music-videos! So if I ever have to do a video, I don’t have to do a long research, how convenient… Destiny is nice with me…
I have to go and pack my bags as I’m going to see some old friends from school tonight and I hope that past will not hit me down too much – still have to resolve and settle down a few things that might not be too comfortable.

Maybe, I should take another grappa to get my throat healed… ;-)

bum chigga bum bum

{ November 21, 2007 @ 11:25 pm } · { about my music }
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I would freak out. I would. Christmas concert got cancelled. No way to avoid outside circumstances. I would freak out, really. I would. If I haven’t had tonight’s great jam session with my drummer. Oh my god, it was soooooo cool! He’s unbelievable. I mean, I heard things he’s done before, but it was the first time he jammed tonight and he’s just so good! I could tell him anything, any beat I had in mind and he just got it and played it! That’s exactly what I need! So great to work with him. We worked a little bit on our own version of Yellow (as previously mentioned) and he did some short beats on his computer and then we fixed our next steps and I know it’s gonna work out so nicely! We come along just so good and we have the same enthusiasm and energy to go further, go out, do something cool and rock the world! His drums are really gorgeous – I love it when it’s not too clear and has a lot of power on the timbal…

aaaahhh, I’m sure I’m not gonna close an eye tonight, I’m just too excited! But I have to – have to get up at five tomorrow morning and it will kill me… But that’s life!

life has its own way, indeed!

{ November 20, 2007 @ 9:57 pm } · { music in general }
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Sometimes it’s funny how life plays its own game and leads you to the right places and to the right people. I just found out yesterday that one of my working mates has a studio and is a producer! How cool is that. He even once produced DJ Tatana six years ago – so sad that he is always so busy with his job that he mostly has no time for the music. I really love to discuss about music with him, as he likes the same bands as I do, Korn, System of a Down, Rammstein… and we always heat up very much not having the same opinion about something – very funny to fight with him, I think, he does it on purpose to have another opinion than mine to provoke me ;-)

So maybe one day, he will be of high importance to me – or he might know someone who will be. Have I ever mentioned how much I love networking? ;-)

Just having another hunger attack, pasta is ready, have to leave… Keep you up to date about tomorrows drumming session!

confessions of a sinner…

{ November 19, 2007 @ 8:34 pm } · { music in general }
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I hereby confess that I truely, madly, deeply love Céline Dion (I know it sounds weird!). I adore her powerful voice and if ever there is a perfect one it’s hers! I wonder if she ever did not hit a tone in her life… I remember all the long nights I spent trying to reach the high E from all by myself, failing and trying again and again (the work was worth it, anyway!). It’s somehow not her songs that attract me but the way she sings at the very limit that has given me power to try and practise and work hard – you never get further without trying the unreachable, you will not improve if you always sing the easy songs that don’t challenge you. It’s like that with singing and it’s like that in life.

So I was really looking forward to her new album, although I was thinking, when I first heard taking chances: what the hell are they doing to her voice!!! Why can’t they let it pure? Why do they always put so many effects and dings and dongs and stuff in the songs? It’s awful! But anyway, I bought the record, just had to, especially because I was wondering what they did of Alone. I love this song so much, since so long and I was worried as I find that the two sisters of Heart have done such a good job and it’s just perfect as they’re doing it. So I listened to it at least a hundred times and I adore the first part so much! It’s so nice how she pushes it without even pushing it! The second part gets a little bit messy, as usual, with orchestra and stuff, guitars and drums not strong enough for a rock song, but she does it poppy, so it’s ok. I love her version too. :-)

Rest of the record is a big mess, as usual. It’s ok if you just listen to one single song, but there is no thread within, no central theme that leads you through, except of her voice. She knows she can sing everything and so they always pack up all different styles in one record but she’d better do as e.g. Robbie Williams did by doing a Swing record – so everyone knows it’s a swing record and nothing else. But almost every song is recorded and produced somewhere else, songs are from different songwriters and that messes it up somehow.

I therefore prefer her early french albums, they have a clearer structure, mostly written by Luc Plamondon who is just a great songwriter. Anyway, french is the best language to sing as it sounds so nice and it’s so clear as it has so many nice vocals.

Then, something about her booklet: I don’t like it. I don’t like the pictures and I don’t like her style as it’s somehow pretendingly rock-chick-style which she’s definitely not. (But I would love her being a rock-chick, actually. Her voice would be perfect for that! Just remember her version of “you shook me all night long” together with Anastacia!!! How can her voice be so powerful with her being so skinny??? Why can’t she just do something together with System of a Down??? Pleeeeease!)

Video to taking chances is strange as well – weird story not fitting to the lyrics, but she looks gorgeous and wow, niiiiiice motorbike! Wanna have! ;-)

No conclusion for one time – buy it if you want or let it be. I go ahead thrilling my neighbourhood with the high E…

three steps back can be three steps back

{ November 15, 2007 @ 11:18 pm } · { about my music }
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I’m so pissed off about the bass guitar player! No answer, no sign of life, nothing! I’ll kick him. And I will not even tell him that I kicked him!!! Damn.

I’ll take the advice of my singing teacher and go ahead with the drummer and start to create some nice beats. That’ll be everything we’ll need – a good groove, a melody and some lyrics…

We had a nice session yesterday. It was hard work but it was good – tone by tone through the song and back if it didn’t sound how we would like to have it. Somehow, she’s like my guardian angel: each time I think I’m close to the ground, she appears from somewhere and gets me back up. You really rock, girl!

one step back can be three steps ahead

{ November 11, 2007 @ 11:03 pm } · { about me }
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After having nearly collapsed last Sunday in the middle of a Starbucks coffee shop (how embarrassing…), I decided to take one step back and not to rush around all the times. So after two parties (still!) this weekend, I planned to take a time-out today and see an old friend and go to a nice wellness location. But this plan got swept away by some nice animal who killed the wires of my friends car. So instead, we took a long smalk (smoke and walk – yes, it’s the one friend who left me his cigars… But he’s done a good job persuading me that it’s better to stop again!) around lake of Ägeri, which is somehow so far from civilisation as the moon itself. But it was a nice trip far away from the hectic rush of the city, back to calmness of nature to the deepest darkest corner of my struggled soul and I now feel tired but happy, as I’m almost finished with my second song and it looks very good that the christmas concert will take place. So I’m working on some flyers, trying to get the line-up ready, learning all the lyrics and doing some other coordination. But it’s fun and it will give me strenght to continue what I started…

pa lela vuerca? va pela luerca? la vela puerca!

{ November 10, 2007 @ 10:54 am } · { music in general }
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I really, really would like to tell you how the concert was, but to be honest, I can’t remember anything but two guys standing on stage, looking the same but one with a bonnet and one without… and me in the middle of a crowd of youngsters, dancing like mad, smoking things I shouldn’t have and drinking liquids that only pretended to be water…

Hug a tree!

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