Archive for April, 2008

Things move on!

{ April 24, 2008 @ 9:36 pm } · { about my music }
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It’s done. Almost. I’m just returning from the studio where I recorded my first own song. What a feeling! I was quite nervous, although I didn’t want to admit to myself. But my body showed: fast heartbeat, cold hands, shivering… But the nervosity disappeared as soon as I was there. My workmate has great machines – and he plays the piano! He never mentioned that before. But it saved my life as I don’t and I prepared to play it by myself. So it will turn out much better than expected! I’m really looking forward to receive it next Monday. I didn’t listen to it so far… I’m curious what he makes out of it. And he said he loves my voice. And he showed me some projects he’s working on. And he wants to work together with me. What an honour! Wow, what a great day (I’m just trying to ignore that my head aches like hell…)!

A fine frenzy – much more than just fine!

{ April 19, 2008 @ 11:15 am } · { music in general }
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I want to have this dress! This grassy green dress that Allie wore yesterday to her concert as “a fine frenzy“. It looked gorgeous. She looked gorgeous! In this grassy green dress with her red hair. And I was there. With a friend. She managed to get us tickets and soon after, it was sold out!

So I was there in the middle of the crowd adoring this beautiful, lovely girl sitting on her piano. No need to talk about her voice – perfect performance! Let’s talk about her appearance. I loved it so much! She’s so authentic. The way she was playing and singing just made me think of that it’s like if she would go through the pain she felt while writing these terrible sad songs again. She looked as if she would cry out loud the next second. But the next second, her face had changed again and she had put on this orgasmic face, showing the audience how full of relish making music can be. And when a song was over, she smiled at the crowd as if a fresh summer breeze just had stroked her hair. She’s so fucking cute! Really! I would have loved to take her home… :-) And she talked quite a lot and made these funny jokes – it was a great mood in there!

The only thing that disturbed me a little bit was the audience – they stood around as if they had sticks in their backs. No movement at all. Ok, it’s slow music but still, the drum was mixed perfectly and the sound was nice and groovy. I couldn’t help myself but shake around a bit.

The most crazy thing happened when she played “Almost lover” – I never ever experienced so many people being so quite! It was spooky – I got a real goose flesh! That was really weird.

So all in all: go ahead Allie, write new sad songs – we love you!

Finally seeing one of the greatest songwriters of our times on stage

{ April 16, 2008 @ 7:44 pm } · { music in general }
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You’ll never guess where I’ve been yesterday! (of course you won’t) A friend of mine managed that we got tickets for the Serj Tankian concert at Volkshaus. Wow! It has been sold out quite quickly and I absolutely wanted to see him, as I never managed to see System of a Down live.

I have to say: he’s crazy! His show was acutally quite good – specially with only one record in his bag and he did not play one song from SoaD. He is crazy! His whole appearance (he wore a topper), his movements (sometimes, he jumped around like a Teletubie), his gestures, his eyes… I really adore his voice! It’s great how he can sing in every pitch with this special strenght and it’s so recognisable. Master of Disaster! In comparison to the songs of SoaD, you can hear the clear influence of his Iran origin. But nevertheless, the songs are strong and you just have to jump around. I adore the high musical level and all these rhythm changes. He’s a crazy songwriter. We used to ask each other, my friend and I, how the band does so they know where in the song they are and how they manage not to get lost. Only thing that bothered me a little was the one singing the backing vocals. He was much too loud and his voice was not that great. I think that’s where the strenght of SoaD lies – these multi-voices lines…

Serj Tankian is crazy! But he’s kind of that crazy that he appeared to me to be probably the most normal person in the whole hall…

One riddle of the endless universe

{ April 8, 2008 @ 8:52 pm } · { about me }
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Is there any connection between totally strange minds? I really had a weird experience today. I was standing in a huge crowd of people wanting to go home. I had this lovely song in mind that I just listened to: GooGoo Dolls, Iris. Such a beautiful song. Never goes out of my mind, once in. So I had this melody singing in my mind when I heard a voice singing just the first line of the refrain. I was thinking:” oh my God, I lost my mind. I’m singing out loud while in a crowd!” and I tried to shut up. But there was nothing to shut up as it wasn’t me singing! It actually was a girl in front of me! So I asked myself: is it possible, that she has been listening to the same song at the same time as me? Or was it me, thinking so hard of this song that she felt it in her mind and started to sing? Some questions will never be answered…

work at every corner of my life…

{ April 6, 2008 @ 6:15 pm } · { about my music }
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I’m writing songs. Again. As always. I write songs while I work, while I walk and while I sleep. It’s a ongoing process and I realised that I can’t just sit down and say:” now I work” but I have to capture ideas from the air they are flying around. And I got another singing lesson on Thursday and I absoultely need to see my drummer again. He wrote me that he had some spontaneous ideas what makes me curious. And I got three new songs in pipline I want to present him (ok, first they need some more work on but they’ll be fine soon). And I got to track down my working mate so we can go to the studio and record this one song before I’ll be off for Barcelona for the video shoot. And for that, I need to track down my manager to find out if he’s ready for the shooting. And I need to show him my idea for a logo. I worked out something that I like quite a lot but I need some more opinions. And he’s the expert :-)

And I need to find my photographer who got lost in space somewhere between NYC and capetown, I assume, and tell him to finally finish my pictures. And I need to tell him my ideas bout some pictures I would love to take.

You see, I’m quite busy these days, running from one corner to another trying to settle everything down.

And I need to go now to meet a friend at Almodo bar! :-) see ya!

shopping – for one time from home

{ April 4, 2008 @ 10:44 pm } · { about me }
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I have been shopping excessively lately. And I didn’t even have to go out! And for one time, I was not interested in fashion, but in music. I love iTunes! You can find really everything there! I have been searching for some playbacks and what I found was enormous – all the songs I used to sing for a long time were there! I obviously love playbacks. :-) It’s the best thing to practice difficult songs. And this in turn helps to strenghten my voice. I recently had a discussion with my singing teacher: her opinion is that the stronger a voice gets, the more you find out where your range is and the more you will transpose songs to your optimal pitch of voice. That might be true, but my opinion is that I want to sing each song in its original pitch – this is the only way to really improve my singing…