Let's end the speculation and share the latest in the "kaleidoscopic" saga...
MUSIC--are you beautiful?
If you are, then your beautiful soul and its bootylicious body-temple will be diggin' on bella soul!
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We're back in the saddle in a big way, with an unprecedented rollout that demands we show up and show off with all cylinders blazing. A few months ago, I had a cold and lonely moment in my basement where I totally disassembled the Lady Blue music repetoire binder, not really too certain when or if another scenario would happen anytime soon. Fast forward to today, where we are now looking at new originals, new cover tunes, new re-workings of a few Lady Blue nuggets, and new playmates to share all the fun with! When Joe Lawler from Juice called yesterday (his blog is here) about featuring us on the "Meet The Band" page, I told him that this was a fusion of rock and soul, as I myself am, given my chocolate and vanilla genetic status, and that the vibe was very Aretha meets Ann Wilson. I also said rather incredulously that we intend to explore a wide range stylistically, and that given the current soup state of the music industry, I believe the future belongs to those rulebreaking niche-defiant renegades who dare to step out and pull what I'll call a Schwarzenegger; in other words, everything supposedly wrong about you according to the status quo, yet you manage to spin it all into your own uniquely compelling artistic expression. Need proof of this prophecy? Two words: Susan Boyle (relive the amazing 7-minute moment here).
In the interim, I've learned a few things about myself as a musician and as a person, the main one being how lacking in joy I can be. I used to hang out with a friend named Joy, and we would joke that she was Joy and I was Sorrow. The saying goes, there's no such thing as a happy genius. I would like to prove that theory wrong, in music and in life. I am simply fed up with wasting time, spinning wheels, being beholden to illusionary faux-rules that have absolutely no basis in reality, once you back up far enough to see them clearly. I've reached an exciting, if a little inconvenient, point on my journey where I'm just in the mood to perform what I want, when I want, where I want, how I want. Not in some selfish, controlling way, but setting a new unselfish standard of boundry-less musical freedom. So watch out world, bella soul is coming to rain down a storm of musical power and joy on your beautiful soul.
BUSINESS--the kaleidoscope is changing...
I like to think of it as graduating actually. After banging our heads too many times against too many walls, plans for a studio re-launch have been put on the backburner for now, as we continue to tie up loose ends from the Urbandale 104th Street days. It's been weird, but good, showing up for projects at other studio settings, such as Andy's basement for my SNAFU guest spot (www.myspace.com/thebandsnafu), Logan's house for my Dustin Smith guest spot (http://www.loganchristianaudio.com/ and www.myspace.com/dustinsmithmusic), and several times at http://www.livingsoundstudio.com/, where we've been fortunate enough to rehearse with the band the last two weeks. Bittersweet though it may be, I once again have learned a lot about the business of recording, and the business of business itself.
We are "hearing new visions and seeing new songs". Our kaleidoscopic dreams are by no means dead, they will be resurrected in what we are calling The Kaleidoscope Musical Initiative, a project that will not be limited by the scope of only one little business effort in Des Moines, but will literally reach out far beyond what we've ever dared to imagine before. Keep scoping out the scope...it's coming soon, really it is. In the last 3 years, we've put many of our own musical dreams on the backburner, in order that we might help others, and learn more of what we need to move forward when the time came to revisit them.
That time is now. These transitional months have not been without disappointment, disillusionment, probably a little of every negative "dis" word you could think of. Along with some vocal coaching, junior high mentoring, consulting on and contributing to others' artistic endeavors, the focus is finally swinging back to performing. During the Lady Blue days, we basically performed in between times we could get away from the business. Now we're going to practice our entrepreneurship in and around performing.
This blog is shifting and clarifying its focus. The appearance and content will be changing to reflect the new Kaleidoscope Musical Initiative, and all of its aspirations. I'll be weighing in more often at, you guessed it, the blog at www.bellasoulmusic.com. Please consider hooking up with us throughout our various social media outlets, and let us know how we can support and promote all of your good kaleidoscopic creatiVEntures!
Some tunes to end a blog with:
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