WoopWoop! The first review of the new single has arrived and we’re pretty freaking happy about it. We’ve sent it off to a small range of reviewers to get a few quotes before we send it
around to everyone with ears. Quotes are helpful nuggets when you’re trying to get people that are inundated with music to give you a chance.
Check out the review here – and leave some comments if you have the inkling!
If you have any words about Healing Slow, I’d be forever grateful if you’d leave us an iTunes
review. If you click the link it will launch iTunes on your computer and take you to the place you can leave a review.
Thanks you awesome peeps!!!
Posted in Exitproject (my band), Music, Musings |
I can’t believe I haven’t blogged about this yet – what is my brain doing?? Where is my head buried??
Actually, my head isn’t buried anywhere – it’s been resting on a set of old books in the basement while my disembodied legs run down the street by themselves.
Don’t believe me? – Well, we caught it on tape…
Watch the full video (which explains why my body has gone to pieces:
Healing Slow by Exitproject
Posted in Exitproject (my band), Music, Musings | Tagged Music |
During the summer of 2008, we were offered the opportunity of a lifetime. We were asked by by the international power house, Terlato Wine Group, to apply our folktronica sounds to some jazz classics. 70,000 copies of the CD were then distributed across the United States with Santa Margherita wine, one of the top selling wines in America.
Terlato wanted music that had the class and atmosphere of a supper-club, but with modern electronic influences. Music that you can sit back and relax to while drinking your favourite wine.
All 3 songs were arranged and recorded by J and I. Ain’t Misbehavin’, Whisperin’, and Ballin’ the Jack are now available with selected bottles of Santa Margherita. They’re also available to download for free from the Santa Margherita website –
www.sm-supperclub.com
Posted in Exitproject (my band), Music, Musings | Tagged Music |
January came and went in a flurry of post-Christmas-get-your-ducks-in-a-row excitement! The new single arrived AT LAST (after a lot of flummoxing around with the duplication company – aka, they
lost the first batch, and crushed the second batch) and we are SO freakin happy about how it turned out!
Sales are going crazy and it has me grinning!!! 
Join the fray if you don’t have a copy yet – pick it up here in the Exitproject shop.
In other news, I spent the first Christmas back home in America for 4 years. 4 YEARS?!?! How the bo-jangles did that happen??
It… was… faaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic…
I reveled in American-ness and did American things! I sang the America version of ‘Away in a Manger’, I was surrounded by all the traditional family Christmas decorations like the Good Cheer
Blimp ornament and the hand-carved nativity that my Dad made. I drank egg-nog (I drank egg-nog lattes), I ate Hershey’s, I went to the midnight service at the church I grew up in.
I
saw
my
family
!!!!!!!
Their fantastic Jarvi-faces speaking fantastic Jarvi-phrases. The finest bunch there ever was…
AND my brother got engaged! AND I’m his best man! I get to plan the bachelor party, Yoink!
Posted in Exitproject (my band), Music, Musings | Tagged Music |
Once there was a robot-girl.
She was misunderstood because she was a machine and people thought she didn’t have any feelings or emotions.
At Christmas, all her LED’s blinked red and green.
And her secure wireless connection password was ‘rudolph’.
And she spoke the words to Christmas carols – because she couldn’t sing.
But people passed her by and never wished her a Merry Christmas. She was, afterall, just a robot.
But she had love and spirit in her heart-bot. And more than anything she wanted to be able to sing Christmas carols and share goodwill with everyone she met.
Late one night, she said a prayer – a Christmas wish – to be able to sing… to finally be a part of Christmas.
She wished and wished, with her eye-lenses shut tight. And the she wished and wished some more.
As she wished, it began to snow… and a star went shooting across the sky.
She paused…
She took a deep breath…
and SHE SANG! Her Christmas wish came true! And she went rolling down the streets sharing her Christmas song with everyone she met on the way.
And it was a very Merry Christmas!!
Wanna hear the song she sang? Exitproject caught the whole thing on tape – listen to her version of Carol of the Bells on the Exitproject’s Last.fm page.
Posted in Exitproject (my band), Music, Musings | Tagged Music |
On 12th July, 2008 two of some of my trance tracks will be released by a top Trance Record Label all over the world – WOOP!
In 2007, I was approached by UK trance label, Conspiracy Recordings to co-write and record vocals for two tracks with Jon O’Bir (UK), a rising star on the Trance scene. The relationship proved successful when Vandit Records, a German label run by Grammy-nominated DJ, Paul Van Dyk, picked up Jon’s Album, “From Within” for world wide release. The album includes both of the two tracks co-written and performed by Emi, one of which is also being released as a single.
I can honestly say that I’m shocked and really freakin’ pleased about it all. :D
‘From Within’ will be available on vinyl on 11th June and on CD on 12th of July 2008.
Posted in Dance music, Music, Musings, Session vocals | Tagged Music |
Yes, it’s true, this owl is exactly the same size as a rack unit. So if you’re a travelling sound engineer with a tendency for loneliness, just take an owl along and she’ll sit merrily between you EQ unit and your MOTU 828, metaphorically chirping at you as you twiddle and tweak to your hearts content…
The last EXPERIMENT was held at the CityScreen Basement Bar on 9th April. I raffled the little purple fellow pictured with the following trivia:
Which of the following is not associated with owls?
1 – Wisdom
2 – Adult Disease
3 – The Illuminati
4 – Bad Luck
And Vin-the-soundman won! The correct answer is ‘adult disease’. James and I had a heck-of-a-job finding anything that WASN’T associated with owls, though. They’re popular feathered friends, so it seems…
Vin does sound at CityScreen and Athena (appropriately named because she’s a mighty little owl) fits PERFECTLY in between two rack units behind the desk!
Woop!
Another lesson learned…
Yes, it’s true, this owl is exactly the same size as a rack unit. So if you’re a travelling sound engineer with a tendency for loneliness, just take an owl along and she’ll sit merrily between you EQ unit and your MOTU 828, metaphorically chirping at you as you twiddle and tweak to your hearts content…
The last EXPERIMENT was held at the CityScreen Basement Bar on 9th April. I raffled the little purple fellow pictured with the following trivia:
Which of the following is not associated with owls?1 – Wisdom2 – Adult Disease3 – The Illuminati4 – Bad Luck
And Vin-the-soundman won! The correct answer is ‘adult disease’. James and I had a heck-of-a-job finding anything that WASN’T associated with owls, though. They’re popular feathered friends, so it seems…
Vin does sound at CityScreen and Athena (appropriately named because she’s a mighty little owl) fits PERFECTLY in between two rack units behind the desk!
Woop!
Another lesson learned…
Posted in Crochet, Musings, Wooly Stuff | Tagged Crochet |
One chunk to go!! One chunk to go!! Then a couple of snazzy dc’s around the outside in a variety of bright and chirpy colors and that’ll be the end of it!
Babette and I are beginning to develop a relationship. I talk about this blanket like she’s a person now… I think that probably happened because all my past projects have been owls or egg-cosies or scarfs with fat wool and a giant hooks. Two weeks at the most and making it up as I go along…
Babette has taken more time, planning and general patience than any past projects, and I like it!!
One more strip (across the bottom of the blanket as it’s shown) above and it will be full size and ready to warm the laps of many (as long as it’s one at a time).
I’d been debating making it bigger, but after looking at versions that people had made bigger, I decided against it. I think it has to be small but mighty.
Next, you say? NEXT??
I think I’d lovelovelove to make a crochet dress in some summery yarn…
And I’m going to make a bumble bee by request from someone very near-n-dear to me 
)…
But I can’t think about that too much now… Babette!! I can see the light!!!
Posted in Crochet, Musings, Wooly Stuff | Tagged Crochet |
Hoorah!! Babette has finally been finished and I’ve spent my first night falling asleep in front of the TV thanks to her woolly goodness…
I made all the little squares and attached them as I went along using the beige wool you see in the picture.
In my usually over-excitement, I started this blanket when I hadn’t yet bought the wool I wanted, so the centre square was made out of odds and ends. When I’d finished attaching all the squares, the 1st one I’d made stood out light heinous sore thumb…
I then cut out and frogged the center square and re-crocheted it in appropriate colors. It look so much better!
I now have so many non-crochet related things to do that I won’t be able to do much of anything for at least a week
(
Does the sadness induced by this mean I’m a wool junky?
Posted in Crochet, Musings, Wooly Stuff | Tagged Crochet |
Crochet false teeth for Grinny Grandad
Mo from Grinny Grandad asked me to crochet some spare teeth for him (teeth are his logo) and this is what I came up with…
It’s my first improvising design that I just made up as I went along. I tried to make a note of the pattern on the CrochetMe website if anyone fancies having a go…
Posted in Crochet, Wooly Stuff | Tagged Crochet, improvised design, weird |
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