What are you doing?

So what have you been doing this summer?…

I have some insightful experiences to share with you:

– About The New/next Album: Piano tracking is done on all the songs. I have been doing some programming now and peeparing the compositions and instruments arrangements for the other studio and musicians. Line-up: I can’t wait to start working with the line-up of people I put on my list, we all seem to have a chemistry and I hope it will come out in the studio process. Dark Strings player, guitarist that works on TV projects, and 3-time Grammy winning engineer. Collaborations: I signed a collaboration with Sam Scozzari who co-wrote “Come and hear my story” on my last album… I am very excited about this song.

– I got a New Keyboard. M-Audio came out with what I have been wishing for, a light shorter full-sized keys digital piano and I am so excited about being able to go around with it on the train in a more comfortable way!! Which means, shows in different venues and different places in Manhattan than previously, on top of those outside downtown. Playing the piano isn’t like the guitar, but I’ve been so attached to this sound that I could never let it down… Patience pays off.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! NEXT SHOW IN NYC!: I will be premiering live some of my new songs that will be on my upcoming record, in the West Village:

Thursday October 27th 2011: 7pm, Gizzi’s Cafe, 16 West 8th Street, West Village NYC, No cover.

—-> Did some live Broadcast a few times this summer exclusively for everyone abroad, but gotta love the New-Yorkers ;)

– If you follow any of my social networking sites or video blogs you might have read that I was in an accident in July… a “walking” one, I fell on a pothole on the street in the city and ended up in the ambulance, emergency room. At the hospital I focused on a positive outcome and I got out of there without a fracture and a sprain diagnosis… The next 2 weeks were quite interesting because for 6 days I couldn’t walk and then for 2 weeks I had to wear braces…. and walk SLOWLY: I must say that running around like a crazy person rushing in and out of the train was really making me miss things in the landscape, may it be in the Park or in the city. Also I wasn’t allowed by the doctor to play the sustain pedal on my piano for a few weeks, which was frustrating, I realized that 1) you can’t play it properly with the other foot unless you like being twisted on the waist (lol) and 2) Music is so important in my life that I would let down any activity around me to make sure I would play with that foot for the rest of my life! It lives so deep in me that my heart can only listen to it.

– I’ve been feeling so much better, and I must say that sometimes doing One Thing at a Time is worth it. A little bit of that feeling went into my creativity for the composition of my new songs. Been filling them in with other instruments. Also isn’t it so funny how it is really when you start recording your music that you get a realistic feeling for what might come around i? You gotta always try your ideas out.

– My US Landing Anniversary: August 13th was my anniversary of when I moved to the US several years ago. Living in NYC makes you forget how HARD it was to do something like this… because it seems that everyone comes from a different country… You gotta congratulate yourself sometimes and celebrate! :). The first year I was here (in northeast Ohio) was very difficult, I was homesick, culture shocked, far from my sweet family (I rarely get to go there for the holidays and they never visit), I was looking for a job/school to get visa sponsorship, had to deal with immigration services, I packed my suitcases twice… but guess what kept me here? Music. I had a band before having anything else, bought my first guitar, played to pass the time and fill my soul, and one year later I had it all figured out and could stay… Sometimes I regret that I had to spend time in an intellectual “day job”, but hey I couldn’t be a part-time sales girl or waitress for there is no Visa to be a waitress (lol)… When you REALLY want to do something you’re naturally hard-working and passion gives you this energy… that I think my days sometimes were 20-hour busy, and thinking about music everywhere all the time still made it THE ONE THING that I am. A friend told me the other day it isn’t bad to have a day job because he doesn’t and he struggles… I think that being in trouble financially can kill your Inspiration so be careful. But at some point you do need that extra time and when you can, just take it and be grateful for that time. :)

I’m going to France!!!!!! This week-end for a few weeks, I will playing at private parties, enjoying my family, and the Smell of my home pine trees and Mediterranee.

A fan-photo that got around on Facebook:

I think that’s all I wanted to share, hope to see you soon!!!!