I don’t have really much time to write right now. I did it! Yes, I bought the Zoom handy recorder and now I’m testing all its features. It’s not very user friendly but with a bit of brain power, you easily see through.

We also recorded our last rehearsal session. It’s wonderful to take that home and listen to it over and over again to improve the next session. We really want it to be perfect and for me, the real work starts now coz there are songs that want to be interpreted and I have to give them a feeling, to bring them to live.

We are not only looking for a new member, if ever, we are certainly looking for a band name. As we are all creative souls, we already have a huge bunch of ideas. I might say that this fact won’t ease the decision as the more choice one has the harder it gets

At the moment, I’m working on a site map for a future website and I try to get a clear idea of how it should look like and what the content will be. And of course I’m always busy with working on songs, improving existing material and specially improving my own musical competencies. I’m really benefiting from my very talented band. They inspire me a lot! You will like it

It’s running and running. We had another rehearsal session yesterday and it’s going very well: we finished another song and we really got into the flow. Wonderful! But we found out that there is a misunderstanding with the fifth person we don’t have yet. I thought, after our last rehearsal, that it’s clear that we are looking for another guitar player. But it was not, obviously! Actually, Alex, who plays the bass at the moment, would prefer to play the guitar and so we are more looking for a bass player. But we decided to postpone the search until we finished more songs and are really sure about what we are looking for…

We are really regularly on rehearsals now. Last Tuesday was really great. We worked hard on one song and we can say now that it’s quit finished (although a song will never ever be finished…) But we found out that we need a second guitar player. So if you wanna join us, write me a message

We still have the unsolved problem of recording our sessions at the rehearsal room. So I took an hour of time and went to Musik Hug, which is my favourite music shop in Zurich. They always have very competent salespersons. What I basically wanted to know is what kind of portable recorders there are on the market at the moment. I know about the Edirol recorder – my singing teacher owns one. It has a really very good internal microphone but you can only do one track recording with that and I’d prefer to have at least two tracks.

Therefore, the Zoom handy recorder would be nice. It can record four tracks and it has a direct mic input.

There are even bigger ones with 16 tracks and even other solutions which need a computer, what makes it less handy but more exact to record even the drums.

It’s as usual with music equipment: there is way too much and way too many possibilities to take spontaneous decisions. And money is, of course, a factor as well. So I will sleep over it a few times and I will discuss it with my mates and hopefully find a quick and good solution.

Caution! It’s gonna be very personal now. It seems that my whole life has changed. Or not my life, but me. It feels as if my old me has died and a new me has been born.

Around one month ago, I met a really special person. I defenitely met my soulmate! We came along so well, we understood each other from the first second on, just like no one has ever understood me. All the talks and discussions we had really helped me to understand even myself, who I am. And it helped me to leave my past behind, all the fears I had and start into a new and really crazy life. I mean, who the f** sets the rules? It’s every single person on it’s own. So why don’t I? … I do now…

There’s a lot going on these days. I met my guys again on Thursday for another rehearsal session and it was really grooving. I came home quite late and I couldn’t turn off that easily as I was thinking about all the songs and where it’s gonna lead us.

So I was really tired when I got up yesterday at five in the morning. But I had to, as I needed to prepare for another photoshooting. I have planned that long ago, with a good friend of mine I met through my singing teacher. She really loves taking pictures and I really love posing, so we agreed that we will be a good team.

Surprisingly, my make-up turned out to be fine at the first try! This is really unusual – normally, it takes me at least two times…

So we drove up to the mountains where she knew a good location for the shooting. We passed a chapel and we spontaneously decided to take a few pictures there as well. I felt like a sinner and an angel at the same time

We were pretty fast and even finished our work before the rain came again. Now we have to take a choice of all the pictures we shot and then I have to start with the website and in parallel I need to work on my songs and write new ones and rehearse with the guys, and, and, and… there’s work all around me, but I won’t complain, as this is all I ever wanted and so much fun!

This is truely the best news ever on this blog: it’s done, it’s perfect, I have a band! Finally, after all this time with no luck, I got touched by some mighty power showing me the right persons and bringing them to me.

That’s to say I’m back from our first rehearsal session. After meeting Jerry, the guitar player, last week for a chat, we decided to jam together, he, Kalu and I. And, o Holy God, he sent me a message on the weekend saying that he’s in contact with another guy who plays the guitar and the bass as well! So, without knowing him, Alex, at all, we met tonight to find out whether we fit together or not. And damn we do!

It was amazing, just jamming, working a little bit on one of my songs, working on one of Jerry’s songs and getting along very well!

So it feels like if it’s all done but in fact, it’s just about to start! A lot of work ahead but a lot of fun too and I’m sure we will end up creating something special! I love it!

More to come soon…

I’ll soon do another photoshooting. I had a very nice evening yesterday with an old friend. I know her from my singing teacher as she used to have the lesson before me and it’s been three years now that we didn’t have contact. But we found each other and it fit right again. So we warmed up our old project to take some pictures – she’s very into all this visual stuff and she really loved my ideas I have for this shooting. Now we are both very motivated to do it. I can’t tell too much, only one thing: I’m not a bird, but I have wings

WTF! Live seems to hate me these days.  As I woke up this morning, I was highly motivated to finish some songs and do some hard work at the piano. As I sat there and pushed some chords, there was absolutely no sound.  No sound! What the hell! First thing I was thinking that the speakers were broken so I ran into the city to buy an adapter to my headphones so I could test them with the piano.  But still, no sound… So I was really depressed. Damn, I want to play that thing, how can I work on my songs when I don’t have a piano? So I unpacked the self-made woman within me and unscrewed the planking to take a look at the heart of my piano. Twenty screws! What a work. Nothing to see. So twenty screws back in. And, all of a sudden, there was music again! Ha! It helps not to give up at the first problem… Have to go working now