Friday, April 22, 2011

Coffee and Cake! An Introduction To Alan Booth



Music is the universal language that brings people together, even when that universe is the distance between Hollywood and England.  I met Alan Booth on Myspace many moons ago.   We had an instant musical connection. He remixed my song "Bang" and turned it into an electromanaical craze I never imagined could be possible ... It's interesting how others hear your voice and can utilize sound to manipulate expressions and weave that into this wonderful expression we call Music. This is what Alan has done to my voice.  He turned it into a instrument and we created connected, psychedelic Music -- without ever meeting in the in the flesh!

Alan, and my love for crumpets, are my biggest inspirations to get to London.  I want to explore Music there, and I want to sit with my friend and have Coffee and Cake.  Coffee and Cake...  we have this quiet communication of using Coffee and Cake as a means of getting me there and him here to the Americas. He started sending me tracks...  tracks I would write to and record vocals.  I'd send him the mp3's and then he would put his magic into it.  The results have been magical.

One of the reasons I love working with Alan is his Music allows me to be free and experimental. The electro impulses and the energy of Punk gives me room to be violently expressive and politically conscious while simultaneously touching topics that others may find taboo.  I get to be dirty and vocally explosive feeling every emotion.  The music we are making is different from what I created in the past.  With Alan's interpretations, there is little use for guitar and the beats make me wanna wildly dance and stand for something powerful.....turning noise into magical sounds of light and rhythm.....not intended for the meek and shy....aggressive and explicit lyrics that may inspire a Rebellion.

Practice Prison coming soon!!!!!

Coffee and cake

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Somebody Beautiful~


I was driving in my car listening to the rough mix of my song 'Somebody Beautiful" and I was struck with intense emotion....I wrote the song in memory of my Mothers suicide with guitarist Dave James and it was the first time I was able to identify with her Ghost.....and dance with it.